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Flawless

One of the great things about Twitter is the way it can connect you to other developers. For many years, I’ve been chatting with Lisa Dziuba and she got in touch with me last year along with her colleague Ahmed Sulaiman to tell me about a new app they were ...

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Great British Bee Count 2017

For the past couple of years, I have worked with Two Thirds Water on the Great British Bee Count iOS app for Friends of the Earth. Today, an updated version of the app has gone live to support this years count which runs from 19th May until 30th June 2017:

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Building tools for Kylo Ben

I’ve been running my Kylo Ben website about video games since October 2016 and this year I decided to start doing a weekly update about gaming news and what I’ve been playing. Whilst it is fun to do, it is very time consuming as I need to collate interestin...

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Proposal for an Erase Data Passcode

Last month, US-born NASA scientist Sidd Bikkannavar was detained by Customs and Border Patrol agents and told he would not be released until he gave the agents the passcode to his phone. They then took his phone (containing sensitive information from NASA) ...

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Syncing Apple Music with Spotify

Before Apple Music launched in April 2015 I was a longtime Spotify user and subscriber. I maintained a playlist I affectionately called Ben Dodson’s Definitive Hits Collection which contained nearly 45 hours of songs I thought were particularly good1. On mo...

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