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228 entries
2023
- Autism EyesAn AI and VR healthtech spinout from Cleveland Clinic; as fractional CTO I helped carry the product out of the innovation lab, to its acquisition by Floreo.
- Differentiated HomeworkCreate differentiated homework based on the needs of the student
2022
- Bold creativity winsCreativity in practice: bringing an idea to fruition. The online school built in six days, and what happens to the ideas that don’t make it.
2021
- ConfirmicA cookie consent widget for websites, taken over from Metomic in 2021 and run under a new name.
- Digital Leaders Impact Awards
2020
- Emily QuintonEmily's personal website, built with Gatsby
- Oak National AcademyA free online educational resource to help schools to continue providing education for students.
- PerfectlyA small web performance sketch: it ran Lighthouse in the cloud and measured what real visitors experienced.
- RunA Strava-powered Gatsby website for sharing a training blog
- WPStatic TestProving out WP2Static so Oak National Academy could come off WordPress — flattening the site to static assets to cut its attack and performance surface.
2019
- Graph.cool ExportA fault-tolerant export script for Graph.cool
- The ICE ListAn inspiring network for entrepreneurs and investors, run by its members.
2018
- Cloudinary CleanerMake a local database of your cloudinary images so you can manage deletions
- The ICE ListBuilt the website for The ICE List, a volunteer-run members' network of technology founders and investors, as its Tech Lead.
- React Bulma Components NextA failing demonstration of attempting to get React Bulma Components to work with Next.js
- Redis-cached Prismic APIA demonstration of using Redis to cache the Prismic API in a Next.js and Express app
- RoboshopperAutomatically create Shopify orders in your test store using fake data
2017
- Life, Time, Value ConferenceStef Lewandowski at LTVConf 2017.
2016
- Europeana FoundationThe Dutch foundation that owns Europeana, Europe's digital cultural heritage platform.
2015
- Gesture-controlled viewer for Andrew Lamb's Lenticular Changing Colour RingA headset piece letting exhibition visitors examine a ring too intricate for the eye — the view moved by the wearer's own hand, tracked in mid-air.
- ColourAn improvised talk about creativity using my Deck Roulette format. A series of randomised slides based on a set of images and slide titles. Whatever the computer chooses next is what you have to talk about!
- The Memrise PrizeBuilt a tool for a head-to-head research competition to find the most effective way to learn foreign vocabulary — rival academic methods tested against each other on thousands of real learners.
- Artifice, IntelligenceDriverless cars, jobs replaced by robots, AI everywhere. Let's hope they like a good beat.
- MovementalityA selection of recent electronic releases.
- Nao JokesCollaboratively write jokes using Hackpad and have your Nao robot perform them
- Retribution Body — Aokigahara
- High Aura'd & Mike Shiflet — Awake
- Arash Moori — Heterodyne
- Andrea Taeggi — Mama Matrix Most Mysterious
- Nochexxx — Plot Defender
- YesterAn "old news" service based on Wikipedia entries about today's date in history
2014
- The Awesome BoxA custom-built flight-case filled with inspiring, hackable, educational technology, travelling from school to school a term at a time.
- Create Something Every DayWhat I’ve learnt having this as my general rule for living for half my life. I did the talk as a hack by making it randomly pick from a set of slides so I didn’t know what would come next!
- Internet Of Things, Where Are You?A WebGL visualisation of the devices and services around your device right now
- Leancamp London 3Stef Lewandowski spoke at Leancamp London 3.
- Planned OutageA trip for tech people to turn off and get away in the wilderness, kayaking in the Norwegian fjords.
- Story JarInspire your kids by making up stories for them
- Teh GuardianA comedyhack that introduced misspelling's, and typos' into theguardian.com
- Black To Comm — Black To Comm
- Mike Weis — Don't Know, Just Walk
- Jon Mueller & Duane Pitre — Inverted Torch
- Pye Corner Audio — The Black Mill Tapes Volumes 3&4
2013
- CryptographicsCryptoquilt: quilts, prints and t-shirts that turn anything holding an image into something that also holds hidden data
- A Morning with MakeshiftStef Lewandowski spoke at Digital Shoreditch Festival 2013.
- DMAURLA one-day hack that got around Twitter only allowing white-listed URLs in direct messages
- East Dulwich ForumA quick hack to see if the East Dulwich Forum could be more mobile-friendly and accessible
- FlounderA tiny tool for small teams that helped them follow the people they were all most connected to to their company twitter account
- Get back to the craft
- Hack it in a day
- Introduction
- Let a thousand flowers bloom
- MakeshiftAn early London venture studio: fifty prototypes, twelve ideas, three taken further.
- Bearable LightnessNew electronic music with a human feel.
- Shift WorkA mix of the stuff that gives a smile when working from the wee hours to the wee hours.
- PogoidMore hackable Active Record models with Postgres
- Product PuntA no-code, landing page hack responding to the fact that Product Hunt had lots of people who wanted to post, but couldn't
- Sketching with Code
- Stop feeding the beast
- Nicholas Bullen — Component Fixations
- Geoff Mullen — Filtered Water
- Hair Police — Mercurial Rites
- Work Death — Phone About To Ring
- Fluxion — Vibrant Forms
2012
- BootbuckleA vanilla Padrino project for starting new projects. Uses Compass, Susy, HAML, Sprockets, Heroku, MongoDB, Mongoid, Memcached.
- Data NecklaceA laser-cut, laser-etched acrylic necklace that displays your tweets as a data visualisation.
- The Comic Relief ExploralaboratoriumA two-month long series of hacks for Comic Relief — a small team installed in their HQ hacking and making digital ideas, one a week.
- Fence SubscriptionsA way of supporting a record label via monthly subscriptions
- Find Better ProblemsI gave a short talk at the first Find Better Problems event.
- How to block behavioural adverts that follow you around while you browse
- The LockinAn experiment in reinvigorating the After Dark TV format for the digital age
- Loftify, a one-day hack for National Hack the Government Day
- Hacking an IslandAbout my hacker residency on the island of Eigg.
- Belatedly LatelyHeadphone listening for fans of electronic music with a bit of humanity.
- Choosing things that matter
- Walks a Big GameA collection of hot-off-the-presses electronic tracks with a smattering of favourites from last year.
- MongotankMongoid and Indextank sitting in a tree
- Peter GregsonA personal site for the cellist and composer, using Songkick, Lanyrd, Soundcloud, Foursquare...
- Sketching with Code
- Sketching with CodeResearch into culture hacks, and how cultural organisations were embracing hacker culture.
- Skit
- Tales you WinA platform for artists to create multimedia location-based stories
- Charlatan — Isolatarium
- Vatican Shadow — Kneel Before Religious Icons
- Mike Shiflet — Merciless
- Pete Swanson — Pro Style
- Pye Corner Audio — The Black Mill Tapes Volumes 1&2
- Zelienople — The World Is A House On Fire
- Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe — Timon Irnok Manta
- YeBayItemes of importe of which ye may purchase to thine heart's content
2011
- Aframe shortlisted for a White Bull "Bully" award
- BT Nexus + Aframe = fibre-powered video collaboration
- Culture Hack Day: CultureGrid hacks - A mobile app, JSONP API and a large image scraper
- CulturegridSimple Ruby access to the CultureGrid API
- CultureGrid JSONPJSONP front end to the Culturegrid XML API
- CulturescraperA tool to grab the biggest image from a web page so you can refer to it elsewhere.
- IVESRuby gem to access the IVES Venue ID API
- "Log it for me", "Tag it for me" - give us video and we give you metadata
- Make sense of both sides of the argument - introducing Wrangl
- media140 Frontiers: BarcelonaStef Lewandowski spoke at media140 Frontiers: Barcelona.
- Cognitive Consonance
- Gaining Spacial AwarenessSoundtrack to exploring London these last few weeks.
- Printing buildings where once there were newspapersA one hour mix of hum-alongable vocal electronica.
- Nokia Pitch 'n' Win
- Pretty-Textmate-Ruby-putsOutputs nicely formatted puts statements for Ruby developers using Textmate
- StefotoA neat little site for a wedding photographer — open source, usable by any photographer quite easily.
- Ezekiel Honig — Folding In On Itself
- Clams Casino — Instrumentals
- Pete Swanson — Man With Potential
- Deaf Center — Owl Splinters
- Red Horse — Red Horse
- Mike Shiflet — Sufferers
- *AR — Wolf Notes
2010
- ConversativesComedy hack using a proxy to swap words for their opposite on the Conservatives.com website
- DIY-CouncilAn easy to use alternative way of using the web for local authorities in the UK
- Email your candidates
- GeopinionA little app that let you gather people's opinions about places, particularly for planning.
- Google-Cache-Sitemap-DownloaderUse your Google sitemap XML file to download a copy of your website from the Google Cache
- Heroku_Memcached_Hello_WorldA quick test: Server Marked as Dead on Heroku
- Many-headedA forked Ruby gem, never described.
- MicrojsonpGet all the microformats from a URL as JSONP
- MakefulnessAeioux - Makefulness
- PatSimple access to UK postcode geo and administrative data
- Sinmetricskontagent, mixpanel, etc wrappers for sinatra
- SpiroArduino spirograph drawings
- Talk About Local Unawards — Best InvestigationBest Investigation at the Talk About Local Unawards — for Help Me Investigate
- Tweet an MPThe Digital Economy Bill for me is the single-most anger inducing piece of proposed legislation that I’ve yet heard.
- Johann Johannsson — And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees
- The North Sea — Bloodlines
- The Alps — Le Voyage
- Jefre Cantu-Ledesma — Love Is A Stream
- Thomas Köner — Nunatak Teimo Permafrost
- Thomas Köner — Nunatak
- Thomas Köner — Permafrost
- Indignant Senility — Plays Wagner Volume 2
- Rene Hell — Porcelain Opera
- Sylvain Chauveau — Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)
- On — Something That Has Form And Something That Does Not
- Heavy Winged — Sunspotted
- Thomas Köner — Teimo
- Website-RedirectRedirects all GET requests from www.example.com to example.com (or similar) using Sinatra
2009
- AframeA cloud video platform for people making TV programmes and films, so a production team could work together on large amounts of footage.
- BCC DIY Hack Day collected memoryAs the culmination of the first week of our community-powered effort to build our own website for Birmingham City Council, the BCC DIY Hack Day was a real show of how much an informal group of people can now achieve in a short space of time.
- Cached ResourceTransparently caches ActiveResource data in a memcached instance by extending cache_fu
- DebillitatedA quick mashup to illustrate the progress of the Digital Economy Bill through the process of 'washup' in parliament.
- Gifts for future selvesAnother in a series of experimental, filmic, soundscape, found sound, ambient, folk, classical montage mixes.
- Two Big City Plan WordlesAhead of the coming end of the Big City Plan consultation here are two Wordle illustrations of what’s being said.
- Black To Comm — Alphabet 1968
- Svarte Greiner — Kappe
- William Fowler Collins — Perdition Hill Radio
- Mokira — Persona
- On — Your Naked Ghost Comes Back At Night
2008
- 5alist upgradedAndrew and I spent a few hours on 5alist.com this week, and we now have some nice new features and tweaks.
- A great conversation with Shawn Morton from ProfilacticI’m not alone in thinking that Profilactic could be one of the big stories of 2008 - a service that lets you aggregate and manage all of the various feeds of information that you publish as a person and have them pulled together into a ‘lifestream’.
- An advance preview of the new Redpoint Climbing Centre in BirminghamTonight was the unofficial preview night for particularly keen people to see what’s been going on at the new soon-to-be-opened Redpoint Climbing Centre in Birmingham’s Gun Quarter.
- Big City Plan public consultation - who’s in?It’s all been a bit quiet online about the Big City Plan for a while now.
- Birmingham Bloggers Meetup 3 - Coworking and a Social Media CafeLast night was the third of the Birmingham Bloggers Meetups, and it was an even bigger affair than the last two probably put together.
- Blog Action Day in BirminghamBlog Action Day is happening for the second time this year, and is an attempt to bring together bloggers from around the world to discuss a shared issue.
- Creative Republic is Open for Business!Creative Republic is now open for business, but what is it, and what’s it for?
- Day 1 - our summary - “it’s all about conversations”In a brief respite from the geekery, a few of us from SXSWM got together for a chat to summarise our first day.
- Does Birmingham need a Creative Director?I was in Design Week again this week. This time for an article on an idea that’s gaining some traction in Birmingham at the moment - should the city have a creative director?
- I’m TigBounder over at BINS has set up a game of ‘blog tig’ with the following rules.
- Minority Report interfaces will soon be realPretty amazing video of an experimental immersive human computer interface that has the feel of the famous Minority Report system, with music from Deaf Center on our own Type Records.
- SXSWi 2008 First ImpressionsI’ve spent a lot of my time recording my conversations with people at SXSWi and I’ll be posting a few of them here.
- Talking coworking, xml facial expressions and other randomness with Alex Hillman and othersSXSW is all about the conversations you have - Alex and others who drop in and out during our chat provide a great first one!
- The SXSWM Gang is Back in TownWe’re variously getting over the jetlag, collating all of the information we gathered, sending emails and connecting online with the folks we met, trying to work out what to do with all of the ideas.
- Top 10 Usability Mistakes for Blogs - How Does Yours Rate?The prolific usability guru Jacob Nielsen has a handy post called “Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes” and last night I thought I’d scope them out and see if I needed to make any changes to this site.
- Helios — Caesura
- Grouper — Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill
- Koen Holtkamp — Field Rituals
- Peter Broderick — Float
- Peter Broderick — Home
- The Alps — III
- Xela — In Bocca Al Lupo
- Sylvain Chauveau — The Black Book of Capitalism
- Goldmund — The Malady Of Elegance
- University of Birmingham — School of Computer ScienceAdvising the School of Computer Science so that its research, curriculum and strategy line up with what industry needs.
- We Won a Webby Award!The First Light Movies website that we built at 3form has only gone and won a Webby Award!
- What is accelerated serendipity for?In an attempt to break some of the backblog and to get me publishing more regularly, how about video for the format, and to start with how do you think we can make serendipity have real outcomes rather than just ‘nice ideas’ being generated?
- Where is the Creative and Cultural Web Traffic in Birmingham (Part 2)Finding out where web traffic in a city is, which are the important sites, which ones have loads of users, which ones have none is a difficult task for anyone who’s interested.
2007
- Create something day 2: Get your people to blog my peopleMy second day of creating something every day for a week.
- Creative RepublicAn independent, representative group for the creative and cultural industries of Birmingham and the region.
- Getting some inspirationYesterday I was one of the partipants at (and the photographer for) the Channel 4 Inspiration Session on Design and Multimedia organised by Ten4 Magazine and 4Talent.
- IlluminateI’ve had the pleasure of being involved in Plus - Birmingham’s international design festival for over a year now.
- Is Birmingham “Getting it?” - Creativity and Culture feature in the West Midlands Power 50Yesterday evening was the launch of the Birmingham Post’s much anticipated supplement, the “Power 50 - Who is really shaping the future of the West Midlands?” at Birmingham Future’s AGM.
- Celluloid Dreams in Digital TimesA 1 hour mix of experimental, cinematic electronic and acoustic music.
- In the Back of the RealOne in a series of mixes for the Type Records radio series.
- Name in Lights: And the winner is… Una WhiteThe winner of the Name in Lights project was announced last night at a champagne reception in Birmingham city centre.
- Out of Hours: To Blog or not to BlogThis evening I’m heading over to the Light House in Wolverhampton for a get-together and some informal discussion on the ‘whys’ and ‘wherefores’ of blogging.
- Stretch Hummers in TexasI was really shocked that in somewhere like Texas, with its history of close connection with the oil industry there was very little awareness of the environmental issues that we hear about every day in the UK.
- SXSW – the iPod guideThis is a great idea – an application that installs all the festival event info onto your ipod, so you can carry it around in your pocket instead of a huge booklet.
- The North Sea — Exquisite Idols
- Letters Letters — Letters Letters
- Sylvain Chauveau — S.
- Skallander — Skallander
- Grouper — Way Their Crept
- Where’s the creative and cultural web traffic in Birmingham?About six months ago I came up with the idea of setting up a blog to talk about all the creative and cultural things happening in Birmingham (UK), where I live. I’m a relatively busy man so I hooked up with Pete Ashton, blogger extraordinaire, who was thinking along similar lines so we got the thing off the ground - Created in Birmingham.
2006
- Alumnus of the Year, Birmingham University
- Are we Sleepwalking?
- Plus International Design FestivalPlus was an international festival of design held annually in Birmingham.
- Ryan Teague — Coins & Crosses
- Helios — Eingya
- Svarte Greiner — Knive
- The North Sea & Rameses III — Night Of The Ankou
- Sickoakes — Seawards
- Xela — The Dead Sea
- Mountaineer — When The Air Is Bright They Shine
2005
- Birmingham Young Professional of the Year
- Birmingham Small Business of the Year (Birmingham Creative City Awards)Birmingham Small Business of the Year 2005-06 (Birmingham Creative City Awards) — for 3form
- Sonar 2005: Type Records showcaseA few of us from Type flew over to perform at the Sonar festival in Barcelona.
- Goldmund — Corduroy Road
- Julien Neto — Le Fumeur De Ciel
- Sanso-Xtro — Sentimentalist
- Midaircondo — Shopping For Images
- Ryan Teague — Six Preludes
2004
- Birmingham Creative City Award for Outstanding Innovation
- Bern
- Reference PointsAn hour-long mix of cinematic electronic, soundscape and classical music.
- Strings As LinesA mix of postrock, classical, electronic and soundscape records - from the past, from the present and future releases from Type.
- Thought Processes
- Mustard Award for Best New Start-Up in Birmingham
- Mokira — Album
- Khonnor — Handwriting
- Logreybeam — It's All Just Another Aspect Of Mannerism
- Deaf Center — Neon City
2003
2001
- 3formA design and web agency set up with Antonio Gould whilst at uni.
2000
- White Noise CentralArt and literary site focussing on the travels of two music writers.
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- Writing elsewhereOccasional articles and essays, mostly on Medium