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
Just stunning, @LewisHamilton 👏 #Quali #AusGP #F1 pic.twitter.com/9YhlVZ9BpL
@F1 - 8:46 AM, 24 March 2018
The stats on my MacBook show it's only 17 months old, has a battery with 1 charge cycle, and an SSD with just 40 ho… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
@SimonHoade - 6:02 PM, 16 March 2018
Gotta treat yourself, right? I've been a PC user since Windows 3.1 but now it's time for a change :) pic.twitter.com/hG7f8zIjl9
@SimonHoade - 11:23 AM, 16 March 2018
Let's Encrypt wildcard certificates and ACMEv2 are available today! More information can be found here: community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v2-and-…
@letsencrypt - 5:11 PM, 13 March 2018
I've been having fun clearing the driveway this morning! pic.twitter.com/2Xu7tXO0NL
@SimonHoade - 12:21 PM, 3 March 2018
The Beast from the East is Coming!!! 'We're all going to die Kathleen' #TheBeastFromTheEast #BeastFromTheEast… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
@SirStevoTimothy - 7:05 PM, 28 February 2018
Lowest temperatures I've ever seen in my home lab! pic.twitter.com/jdqSiOL3ir
@SimonHoade - 9:20 AM, 1 March 2018
In praise of simple, dumb gadgets nytimes.com/2018/02/21/tec…
@codinghorror - 8:11 AM, 25 February 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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