Tom Davidson

IBM iX Web Developer/Maker/Breaker. Web Science Undergraduate. Views my own, not those of Big Blue.

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[Tom Davidson @tomjdavidson]

Delighted to share my blog post on how you can connect to the #MAS400 @AI_Mayflower and use the #MQTT data, to build any number of cool things! Can't wait to see how everyone makes use of this data😊

Thanks, @andysc and the entire team for all the help.

https://t.co/LYopI6Fg1M

[Tom Davidson @tomjdavidson]

@andysc I've always used @AnkerOfficial - multiple purchases over approx a decade, and all bricks have been dropped, bashed and taken on hikes, and always continued to survive and deliver approx 4 phone charges on multiple iPhone models 😊

[Tom Davidson @tomjdavidson]

Had a great time presenting at the @IBM_iX UK graduate careers session yesterday afternoon. Thanks to the organisers, and all participants 😊

[Tom Davidson @tomjdavidson]

Super to see a model @AI_Mayflower in the lobby of @IBM London Offices on York Rd 😃

[Tom Davidson @tomjdavidson]

@wighthatmike @NodeRED ..DEFRA sources on that, and then it sort of spiraled from there. There is no specific #MQTT or technical secret to finding them, just googling beyond that 😊all that I used are in the pane on the right hand side of the map - if that helps, if more questions feel free to DM me!

[Tom Davidson @tomjdavidson]

Really enjoyed my latest hobby project, exposing every #realtime #API I could find via #MQTT (thanks @NodeRED!) and plotting them all on a React.js map of my local area 🌎 featuring: planes ✈️, trains 🚂, rainfall ☔️, water quality 🌊 and more 😃

[Tom Davidson @tomjdavidson]

@wighthatmike @NodeRED Sure thing 😊 it was inspired by living next to a railway line, and wondering if I could build something to accurately tell me when the next train would pass my house, so I found https://t.co/7azkStVjVa - then I noted the sewage/pollution concerns in the news, so looked for 1/2

[Tom Davidson @tomjdavidson]

@calanais @NodeRED Thank you Matthew 😊 all of them are free, though most require sign up - https://t.co/7azkStVjVa looks particularly tricky, but once you're through sign up it is a breeze. Some I could make use of more frequently with payment, but stayed on the free side for the moment

[Tom Davidson @tomjdavidson]

@ralight @andysc @NodeRED Ah awesome - thanks Roger. I've visited Helsinki, so that's one thing - could be an interesting second location - much appreciated 😊

[Tom Davidson @tomjdavidson]

If you'd like to view the map, please find here: https://t.co/pjWQ0RauCe (with no guarantees of uptime etc 😊)

Also if you have any other UK #RealTime #API that I could use on my map, please let me know 🎉

[Tom Davidson @tomjdavidson]

Really enjoyed my latest hobby project, exposing every #realtime #API I could find via #MQTT (thanks @NodeRED!) and plotting them all on a React.js map of my local area 🌎 featuring: planes ✈️, trains 🚂, rainfall ☔️, water quality 🌊 and more 😃

[Tom Davidson @tomjdavidson]

First dabble back into #nodered (and indeed Twitter!) for while led to setting up my #gloworb with @NationalGridESO Carbon Intensity API (atm high), and a matching push notification to my phone - inspired as ever by @andysc 😊 off to see what else I can do with this topical API..

[Tom Davidson @tomjdavidson]

Absolutely fantastic to see this 🤩 feel proud to have been involved in a small way with the @AI_Mayflower project, but a huge well done to the whole team on this fantastic success 👏

[Andy Stanford-Clark @andysc]

@JohnCleese @AI_Mayflower And there we are!
5,618km (3,490 miles) from home - now on the left-hand side of the Atlantic! @AI_Mayflower

[Tom Davidson @tomjdavidson]

@andysc This goes back to the onFocus/onBlur fundamentals - validate when the user leaves, not when they arrive! It's like your school teacher marking a maths question whilst you're still doing it 🤣

[Mallory Haas @MalloryRHaas]

Its looks like #MAS400 @IBM @AI_Mayflower #AI #Mayflower400 #Autonomous Ship is on its way to try for the second time to cross the Atlantic Ocean!! Best of luck! @PlymSoundNMP @IBMResearch @FortuneMagazine @andysc @IBMUKI

You can follow along here: https://t.co/75sCRkoNXQ

[Tom Davidson @tomjdavidson]

@mattforde you were fantastic in New….Milton….(🤣) tonight; politics, football and bashing South West Trains is pretty much the perfect show for me - good luck for the start of the tour, see you again soon I’m sure - will be recommending 🍻

[Tom Davidson @tomjdavidson]

Also, I have definitely been away from here for too long 👀

[Tom Davidson @tomjdavidson]

A development big step for me today, publishing my first package to public npm 📦 😀 https://t.co/snSnnLsLdp

Giddy with the joy of being an owner of something open source ☺️🙌

Shout out to all those awesome people who work on software we use every day 👏

[Pouria Hadjibagheri MBE @Pouriaaa]

Cascade of doom: JIT, and how a Postgres update led to 70% failure on a critical national service

For the #DEVCommunity & those who wanted to know more about the issues we had a couple of weeks ago causing the Coronavirus dashboard to become very slow.

https://t.co/xIzxO2c4E0

[Tom Davidson @tomjdavidson]

@ellensophiem @72degrees3 @theousherwood @mrjamesob Pleased some managed to get hold of a couple of kits, just wanted to help anyone out as by chance I used that this morning - fingers crossed for good health all round 😊

[Tom Davidson @tomjdavidson]

@theousherwood Thanks for following this up - not good news 😞

[Tom Davidson @tomjdavidson]

@AndrewSparrow you can still access LFTs for collection: https://t.co/WRKn8n3fQq

Seems loads of places near me - please share so people are not put off getting them! Thank you 😊