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An Amstrad PC1512 with its colour monitor on top of the system unit, a keyboard and the Amstrad mouse, on a desk

The Amstrad PC1512: my first IBM-compatible PC

My Amstrad PC1512 with MS-DOS 3.2, GEM and a 20 MB hard disk: its history and specs, the software and games I loved, getting online with a 2400 baud modem, and some DOS to try in the emulator.

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The Threat Board scales screen: a dark, warm-coloured interface with buttons to choose the scale, root note and shape, and a wooden guitar neck showing A minor pentatonic with the selected shape highlighted in a glowing box

Projects

Threat Board: a guitar practice app that listens to you play

My guitar practice app: scales, chords and a tuner on an interactive neck, plus microphone games that only move on when you play the right note.

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The home page of United in the Premier League: a banner photo of Old Trafford, headline figures such as 13 Premier League titles and 1,934 matches, and a bar chart of United's league finish each season coloured by manager, with trophy icons

Projects

United in the Premier League: every season, match and goal since 1992

An explorer for Manchester United's Premier League era: every season, match, player and manager since 1992-93, built from open data and photos.

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The KS4 Benchmark overview for an example school: a blue header, a search box, results-year buttons, a row of view buttons, and a strip of context tiles such as disadvantaged pupils, SEN support and pupils on roll, each banded against the national figure

Projects

KS4 Benchmark: comparing any school’s GCSE results the IDSR way

A free website that sets any secondary school's GCSE results, subjects, destinations and staffing against similar schools, its trust, local authority, region and England, worked out the way Ofsted's IDSR does.

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