Last updated Sunday 5th January 2025

Daily
My photos and links on Mastodon - [RSS] - Guardian latest - Wikipedia current events

Tools, services and feeds
Feed Validator - City Roads - a few aggregated news feeds - are.na latest [RSS] - The Garden Cinema [RSS] (wonky datestamps) - [ICS] - UK Parliament Bills [RSS] - official [RSS] - weather, by postcode [ICS] (closed) - Recent audio files from Huffduffer, Librivox and Web Archive - days remaining this month - time until sunrise, or sunset (asks for geolocation) - feed reader/previewer (fails hard) - nearby bus stops (London) - an image EXIF viewer - Durham University term dates [ICS] (no guarantees) - an [RSS] feed for charles.childe.rs/wisp.txt - a basic OPML previewer - an OPML feed for UK Parliament TV

Looking for
a processor for iOS audio streams

Working on
you know, work stuff - various experiments with visualising RDF/Turtle, particularly UK Parliament ontologies - a page to show nearest highest features using the OSM Overpass API - a "points of interest" location finder - and a script to generate RSS feeds for recent changes on Wikipedia sites - a Mastodon link aggregator - a Mastodon feed aggregator - a Mastodon image poster (trying to ensure that the images I post have a reasonable alt text and description) - a Forth in Lua - a Forth in C - a Wordpress poster - a basic RSS aggregator

Elsewhere
On Mastodon - on Bluesky (not a frequent visitor) - on Github

Used and recommended
(no affiliate links) Fastmail - val.town - NearlyFreeSpeech.net

Blogroll
(coming soon)

Retired
several redesigns, posts and entire sites - experiments with the Bing Search API - a GraphViz WASM diagram renderer - Lua and Python CGIs - experiments with Perl Dancer - various 'prophylactic' scrapers - a listing of recent Mastodon servers - experiments with Feedland - an OEmbed endpoint for UK Parliament petitions

My name is Robert Brook. I help people to think and to write. I live in London. I work at the UK Parliament. I've worked at AOL TIME-Warner, TIME Inc. and Trinity Mirror.