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
Discussing upgrades this morning at the Seven Clinic. It's a slippery slope! pic.twitter.com/oQa0pL2ffa
@SimonHoade - 5:05 PM, 16 June 2018
Just published my first GitHub repo: Certiply is a cross-platform C# PowerShell module for ordering @letsencrypt ce… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@SimonHoade - 5:15 PM, 10 June 2018
HELMET CAM 🎥 Feel the bumps. Hear the revs. See things from a new perspective. Jump aboard @PierreGASLY's… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@F1 - 11:51 AM, 1 June 2018
I've got my little @letsencrypt library working in PowerShell Core. So that's a certificate generated entirely usin… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@SimonHoade - 3:00 PM, 28 May 2018
Written a little C# library for requesting certificates from @letsencrypt which will shortly find its way into a Po… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@SimonHoade - 8:39 PM, 27 May 2018
Big shout out to Drew and the team at Visual Studio App Center for swiftly taking care of a problem with in-app upd… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@SimonHoade - 8:27 AM, 26 May 2018
1x dead relay. That'll be why my headlights stopped working then! #caterham pic.twitter.com/aEcfIijUtG
@SimonHoade - 10:17 AM, 20 May 2018
Maybe the sign is in metres? #caterham #lowflying pic.twitter.com/nYUqaN2lDz
@SimonHoade - 1:38 PM, 7 May 2018Uploads
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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