Hey! I'm Scott, a second year CS student at Aston in Birmingham, UK. My favourite things are cycling, retro tech and beer.
If you're bothered, I maintain a list of links to interesting stuff. I also have a bitcoin address if you fancy buying me a pint.
Projects
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Muki.js
I got to play with one of these cool mugs at a hackathon. It has an e-ink display, powered by the heat of the liquid inside! Their existing developer libraries were for Android and iOS, so I reverse engineered the mug and implemented their Bluetooth API in javascript!
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vpncmd.js
I got interested in setting up and maintaining my own VPN server, and what better way to manage such a thing than with javascript! And because it (pretty much) didn’t already exist, I wrote a module for controlling a SoftEther VPN server.
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Don't Laugh
A really stupid, and yet incredible hackathon project in the form of a game. A camera and elastic band shooting robot move back and forth - if you laugh or even smile, you get shot!
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trel
After a combination of starting to use Trello a lot at work, and begining to want to switch my toolset to the terminal, I made a cute little command line client for Trello, written in javascript.
Recent posts
- Getting started with GNU social - I’ve seen a lot of people talking about Mastodon recently as a possible location for the mass exodus from Twitter. I’m not entirely sure why it’s seen a big ...
- Lifewiki: A wiki for your life - I came up with the idea just before Christmas. A hectic term at uni had just come to an end, and I had vowed to never let myself get that busy again. But how...
Please take a look at some more posts on my blog.
Speaking
- Aston EAS Undergraduate Conference - How Important is Privacy Online? (slides, video)
- Hackcon EU - Inside the mind of a fresher (slides, video)
I have talks drafted about various things, including overcommitment/burnout, collecting things and the beliefs of an esoteric magical cult. If any of these sound interesting, please get in touch.
Hackathons
I'm often asked how many hackathons I've attended. The count is currently at 31, and the full list is below. Please take a look at my Devpost profile for links to projects.
- Local Hack Day II
- BrumHack III
- AstonHack 2015
- GreatUniHack 2015
- HackKings 2.0
- HackCambridge
- BanterHack
- [email protected]
- HackUPC Spring 2016
- HackLondon
- StudentHack IV
- BrumHack 4
- HackSussex
- AnvilHack II
- MLH Prime
- HackUPC Fall 2016
- HackSheffield
- Hackference
- BrumHack 5
- AstonHack 2016
- GreatUniHack 2016
- OxfordHack
- Junction 2016
- Local Hack Day III
- Porticode
- Hack the Holidays 2
- HackUPC Winter 2017
- BullHacks
- Hack24 2017
- HackCity
- AnvilHack III