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
Big thank you to David at @DPRmotorsport for lending me a brake disc and supplying my next set of ZZRs 👍👍 #caterham pic.twitter.com/4vd0qNGxdx
@SimonHoade - 1:11 PM, 14 June 2019
😂 “That’s for putting me on the medium tyres for 68 laps!” #MonacoGP @LewisHamilton pic.twitter.com/H565yiiWyR
@MercedesAMGF1 - 6:41 PM, 26 May 2019
Stripped and cleaned the quick release boss and confined my grubby old gloves to karting duties. Now all I need is… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@SimonHoade - 6:32 PM, 25 May 2019
Really pleased to have my steering wheel back after being retrimmed with fresh Alcantara and yellow stitching :)… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@SimonHoade - 1:06 PM, 22 May 2019
We've been obsessing over your feedback. Thanks to your commitment to helping us deliver great dev tools, we're ann… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@xamarinhq - 6:19 PM, 21 May 2019
A throwback to nearly twelve and a half years ago. My old track car, Honda CRX 16v. Fond memories of a brilliant to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@SimonHoade - 8:40 AM, 18 May 2019
This is a working particle accelerator built using LEGO bricks. It's called it the LBC (Large Brick Collider) and i… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@Rainmaker1973 - 7:18 PM, 4 May 2019
Best of luck to anyone that might want to try getting data off these old hard drives! pic.twitter.com/aCCjCg72Qw
@SimonHoade - 5:54 PM, 2 May 2019
Giving my old SAN server a clean out and switching from OmniOS to FreeNAS... pic.twitter.com/9I4kBRugmR
@SimonHoade - 6:19 PM, 28 April 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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