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
Collecting rain from one side of the garage, and watching damp come through the wall and floor on the other. The jo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@SimonHoade - 11:40 AM, 16 February 2020
A few weeks ago I discovered some of my old floppy disks from more than 20 years ago, so I had to get myself a USB… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@SimonHoade - 7:55 PM, 4 February 2020
All this energy saving at home meant I didn't feel quite as guilty burning a few litres of dino juice in this old n… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@SimonHoade - 6:31 PM, 1 February 2020
More exciting energy news! Last January I used 1037kWh of gas, and this January I used just 478kWh. The only differ… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@SimonHoade - 6:28 PM, 1 February 2020
January was my first complete month with #solar PV panels and I'm really impressed. 75.7kWh generated in one of the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@SimonHoade - 9:53 AM, 1 February 2020
Very excited to have my VBOX back home after a quick service and upgrade to handle 1080p at 60fps. Can't wait to tr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@SimonHoade - 6:13 PM, 28 January 2020
Really pleased with this canvas print of one of my favourite photos. Just what I wanted to complete my workstation… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@SimonHoade - 6:23 PM, 26 January 2020
Winner winner chicken dinner #karting pic.twitter.com/FR0zQoQNKK
@SimonHoade - 7:36 PM, 15 January 2020
The only car I bothered taking a picture of at the @Autosport_Show today. Still my old one sometimes. Hopefully I'l… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@SimonHoade - 6:49 PM, 11 January 2020Uploads
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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