Welcome
I'm David Llewellyn-Jones, a Research Data Scientist for The Alan Turing Institute at the British Library in London. I occasionally crave adventure and a good thunderstorm.
I'm interested in programming, privacy, maths and graphics. I'm a proponent of open source, open research, and end-users' right to privacy and control. I strive to contribute to a circular economy.
This site has been capturing my thoughts and outputs on these topics since 1998, including my software, research and random musings.
Want to know more about me? Here's a personality sketch written by a psychologist when I was in school.
“David is of high intelligence, although lacking in true creativity. He has a need for order and clarity, and for neat and tidy systems in which every detail finds its appropriate place. His writing is rather dull and mechanical, occasionally enlivened by somewhat corny puns and by flashes of imagination of the sci-fi type. He has a strong drive for competence. He seems to have little feel and little sympathy for other people and does not enjoy interacting with others. Self-centered, he nonetheless has a deep moral sense.”
Wow. Harsh. But disturbingly accurate.
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News
26 Nov 2024 : Embedded Browsers #
As an extension of my Gecko dev diary, I've taken a look at three embedded browser frameworks and compared them: Chromium Embedded Framework, Qt WebEngine and Sailfish WebView. I looked at their APIs and played around with them to see what they're like to use in practice. The write-up is on my gecko dev diary page.
9 Nov 2024 : Silent skies #
It's well past bonfire night, the skies have fallen silent again, the next time the decorations go up it'll be for Christmas. In the meantime I've taken the firework decorations down from the site again.
5 Nov 2024 : Bonfire Night! #
Halloween is now in the past, so I've pulled down the spooky decorations from the site and now we have bonfire night fireworks instead! Bang, pop, fizzle, whiizzzz!
31 Oct 2024 : Happy Halloween! #
Once again (for the 26th year!) it's Halloween on the site and I've put up the creepy Halloween decorations. Wooooooo!
9 Oct 2024 : Adding fediverse author links to the site #
I've not yet decided whether Mastadon's new feature to add a fediverse link to content cards is a great way to tie together different accounts, or just a clever trick to prevent users from leaving Mastadon, but I've decided to add the tag to my site and see how I feel about it. Thanks to Bastian for highlighting the feature. I suspect it's all a matter of perspective: as an oldskool Website enthusiast I consider my Website to be the focus where my other content links out to, whereas others (including, of course, Mastadon) see social networks as the central point of focus. I'll see how it goes.