Welcome to niknak.org
Niknak Motorsport / Simon Hoade
I am a British software developer with a passion for fast code, fast cars and slick videos. These are my thoughts, my projects and my life...
I'm too lazy for a real blog so I use Twitter to document my daily highs and lows, sometimes with pictures.
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I love to experiment with video ideas and create short films, often using footage from track days.
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Recent tweets and mobile uploads
Tweets
Data is beautiful! Using @VBOX_Motorsport Circuit Tools to analyse the impact a slight change in braking point had… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@SimonHoade - 10:51 AM, 2 August 2019
NEW TRACK DAY VIDEO! It's finally here, only 20 months since the last one. Hot lap footage and analysis from last w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@SimonHoade - 7:54 PM, 31 July 2019
Really great demonstration of the EV future. I can't wait to ditch my combustion engined daily driver for an EV, an… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@SimonHoade - 5:58 PM, 30 July 2019
Only one thing for it after getting stuck behind this F430 for several laps - clean around the outside at Luffield… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@SimonHoade - 9:14 AM, 26 July 2019
I love data so I've been comparing my laps with the official Caterham 420R data from April. My best 1:04.41 and ide… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@SimonHoade - 6:32 PM, 24 July 2019
Calling it a day with a scruffy 1:04.4. Data shows an ideal lap of 1:04.0 so pretty happy with that. Car had been f… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@SimonHoade - 3:15 PM, 24 July 2019
Not too shabby so far. Couple of seconds on the table still though I reckon... #caterham pic.twitter.com/GHGRRYbK4U
@SimonHoade - 11:53 AM, 24 July 2019
Silverstone today! I've spent the better part of a week preparing the car for this... must remember it's all just a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@SimonHoade - 8:46 AM, 24 July 2019Uploads
See all of my tweets and uploads here on Twitter
YouTube
Adventures with a Caterham and experiments with video editing
Watch all of my Caterham track day videos and editing experiments here on YouTube
Photos
A selection of recent photos from my extensive gallery
Continue browsing all of my photos here in the gallery
Extras
Things I like to keep on the website, some of it quite old
System Info
A selection of statistics about the platform running this website, taken from VMware vSphere and directly from monitoring hardware.
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Although I haven't written an article for a number of years now, I did try and keep regular posts going for a while. Read them all here.
Read MoreVideos
Before I became a part of YouTube I edited and published track day videos here on my site. These are all of my old videos.
Read MoreCars
A collection of brief articles describing some of the cars I've had the pleasure (and displeasure) of owning.
Read MoreTrack days
I've been driving at track days since 2006 and these articles describe the highs and lows of some of those days.
Read MoreIIS Traffic Monitor
Home of my only published software tool, a free and widely used per-site bandwidth usage reporting tool for IIS 6+. No longer supported.
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