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The personal website of Andy Timmins, a Senior Developer from the UK. Building with code, hardware, and curiosity.

Month: October 2025

The Architect’s Guide to SEO: Building for Dominance, Avoiding the Pitfalls

Posted on 31/10/202504/11/2025 by Andy Timmins

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is no longer a dark art of keyword-stuffing and link-spamming. It has evolved into a sophisticated, measurable science and a user-centric art form. It’s the technical…

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Power Your Raspberry Pi with an ATX Supply Using A PIC16F628A

Posted on 29/10/202529/10/2025 by Andy Timmins

Explore the detailed steps to use a PIC microcontroller for powering a Raspberry Pi with an ATX power supply, featuring soft power and status LEDs.

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Writing Your First WordPress Plugin: A Technical Guide

Posted on 28/10/202504/11/2025 by Andy Timmins

Jumping from using plugins to building them is a significant step. It’s the difference between driving a car and opening the hood to engineer the engine. This guide will walk…

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Building a DIY “Bullet Time” Rig with Networked Raspberry Pis

Posted on 25/10/202504/11/2025 by Andy Timmins

Ever since The Matrix, the “bullet time” effect has been an iconic piece of cinematography. It’s that mesmerizing shot where time freezes, and the camera glides around the subject. Traditionally,…

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The Glitch in the Machine: An FFMPEG Toolkit for Creative Coders

Posted on 11/10/202511/10/2025 by Andy Timmins

FFmpeg is a powerful command-line tool that acts like a digital Swiss Army knife for artists and VJs. Instead of relying on expensive, layer-based GUI software, you can use FFmpeg…

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Recent Posts

  • Let’s Build an Interpreter in C: From Text to Execution
  • Beyond the IO Board: A Deep-Dive Engineering Guide to Custom CM4 Carrier Board Design
  • Bare-Metal ARM: Writing Your First OS Kernel for the Cortex-M
  • Mastering the Stack: Varnish as a Load Balancer with SSL on Ubuntu 22.04
  • The Architect’s Guide to SEO: Building for Dominance, Avoiding the Pitfalls

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helix-os

HelixOS is a 32-bit operating system I'm developing to learn about low-level systems programming — bootloaders, memory management, interrupts, filesystems, and everything that makes a computer tick.

C
Activity (past year)
Updated 1 week ago

rpcemu-extended

Extended fork of RPCEmu, the Acorn Risc PC/A7000 emulator, now with built-in debugger and machine inspector, live snapshots, breakpoints, and watchpoints.

C ⭐ 2
Updated 2 weeks ago

riscos-access-server

An open-source Acorn Access+/ShareFS server for Linux, MacOS and Windows.

C ⭐ 2
Activity (past year)
Updated 4 weeks ago

riscos-converse

Modern multi-line bulletin board system for RISC OS. Converse brings the classic BBS experience to your Archimedes, A7000, RiscPC, or Raspberry Pi running RISC OS. Whether you're building a retro computing community, hosting file archives, or connecting with FidoNet networks worldwide, Converse provides everything you need.

Makefile
Activity (past year)
Updated 1 month ago

hosting-panel

A comprehensive web-based control panel for managing Nginx websites, MySQL databases, PowerDNS zones, and system services on Ubuntu servers.

PHP ⭐ 1
Activity (past year)
Updated 2 months ago

oak-script

A lightweight scripting language for RISC OS with bytecode compiler, virtual machine and runtime.

Activity (past year)
Updated 4 months ago

video-vault

FastAPI-based video recording, retrieval, and analysis with a React/Tailwind frontend. Record multiple streams (webcams or RTSP/HTTP), segment and index them, overlay PNG graphics, run face detection, and export clips precisely with ffmpeg.

Python
Activity (past year)
Updated 4 months ago

riscos-mail-module

Mail is a lightweight mail server implementation designed specifically for RISC OS. It accepts incoming SMTP connections, stores messages locally, and provides POP3 retrieval with per-user authentication. Perfect for local development, testing, or small-scale deployments on RISC OS systems.

C
Activity (past year)
Updated 4 months ago

streamdeck-webmonitor

Monitor multiple websites from Windows and display their status on a 15-button Elgato Stream Deck.

Python
Activity (past year)
Updated 4 months ago

riscos-door-server

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Updated 2 years ago

riscos-telnet-server

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Updated 2 years ago

riscos-armbbs

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Updated 3 years ago

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