Pete Hindle

I’m eating a lot of pop tarts at the minute. So let’s have a quick diversion into the history of pop tarts. Pop tarts are a form of sugary pastry sold by Kellogg’s. The achieved a small amount of notoriety in the early 1990’s, in the UK at least, for burning the hands of a [...]

The current state of my Basic Techniques project is this: It doesn’t work. However, this is a defeatist attitude. Not quite as defeatist as I’ve been considering (it doesn’t work, I’m never going to understand regex, and I’m going to stop bothering with programming being the other considered viewpoint). On the other hand, sometimes the [...]

This is part of my coursework, where I’m trying to define the area that hackerspaces are working in from an artistic perspective. This text is a fragment of writing that I couldn’t fit into the two larger pieces that I’m writing at the minute. In his essay, “DIY: The Militant March of Technology”, Marcin Ramocki [...]

Again, this blog post is part of my basic techniques module, so you might not find this thrilling… casual readers might want to skip this blog post and come back later. As part of my basic techniques module I wanted to work on something quite simple. I’ve broken it down into lots of smaller chunks, [...]

As part of my coursework, I’m creating a text analysis tool. The coursework also states that blog posts are part of the working progress. Therefore, if you’re not on my course or working with Processing in some form, I doubt the post would be interesting to you. What is the best way of storing a [...]

James Hugonin is an artist who lives in Northumbria, and makes paintings that reflect his surroundings by taking the predominant colour for each day and painting a square in that colour. This is very procedural art, and therefore it lends itself very well to make a computer program that does the same thing. This would [...]

Recently, I had a meeting with both my supervisors and the two lecturers who run my course. This slightly-scary meeting was labelled in my diary as “super supervisory meeting”. These are my notes from that meeting. (click for more notes)

This site’s not finished yet – the ‘about‘ page is less than informative, the theme’s a little clunky – so you might not know that I’m doing a leading-edge research course in academica. Well, I haven’t really brought it up. As part of that course, we are occasionally required to write essays, and I wanted [...]