Travel

My boat on a lake in Stockholm

I live on a boat, and have been cruising around the Baltic and North Sea for a couple of years. Do you want to join?

Previously, I have travelled by bicycle. In 2013, I travelled by bike and boat from Mexico to Colombia. I attached a solar panel to the bike and made a charger for my laptop so I could write even when away from civilisation for a while. I left with the idea of going to Patagonia, but I wanted to do something else by the time I got to Colombia. I would like to go back to South America sometime. I called the trip Cycle Who. I've written an Introduction, an FAQ, and blog posts tagged Cycle Who.

In Winter 2011-2012 I went to the Canary Islands to try and hitch a lift in a boat to South America. I didn't get there but I discovered the Canary Islands. Blog posts covering this adventure are tagged "serbla".

Work

I occasionally take on freelance software development jobs. Previously I have worked as a software engineer at internet startups on distributed systems, machine learning, and both front and back end web development. I have built a product all the way from the business model, through UX design, and front and backend development, to automated deployment and hosting network architecture.

I am available to hire now.

Radio

Sometimes I do some amateur radio, callsign MM0HAI. Most recently this has been on the boat, where I have a Baofeng handheld (probably the most useful), an Icom T8E, and a Yaesu FT-857. The last of these would be more useful if I installed an autotuner and insulated backstay, but for now I pull a wire up the mast if I feel like experimenting. I've not used it in earnest at sea.

Previously I have participated in SOTA (carrying radios up hills).

See the radio section of the site if interested.

Bloviations from the Phrontistery

» Thinkpad power socket fixing
» Let's Encrypt, broken IPv6
» Bombing in Piraeus
» Polycrisis
» x230 Upgrades: AX210 and coreboot
» Humidifier Cat Hacking
» Time setting for Raspberry Pi on a Boat
» Hacker Questions, Human Questions
» Residual Self Image in The Transgender Matrix
» Change: There is no normal
» Hippies and Punks: A model of change
» Book: The Coming Economic Collapse
» Holy Water and The Infrastructure Feeling
» Corporations are Demons
» Book: Saved - Tony Bullimore
» PGP Updates, Web Key Directory
» NorthernRST
» Book Review: A Captain's Duty by Richard Phillips, Bantam Books, 2010
» The Forest is in trouble
» Book Review: 177 Days Adrift
» The Matrix
» Hacks on the Beach
» Vegan in Ukraine
» Sailing the River Eider
» Trustroots
» .cat
» Gulaschprogrammiernacht 18
» Bonn
» IndieWeb Camp Düsseldorf
» Laptop Backups
» The Hermitage of Boat
» Boat Life
» Year in Review: 2017
» Brygge
» Reïmplementing PirateBox
» Winter
» Pirate Box
» Mi cueva!
» Caves, not concrete
» How to use Las Palmas de Gran Canaria City Bikes "ByBike"
» ssh-agent on Ubuntu Xenial
» Hællæ
» 2 Cats 1 Boat
» Only in Norway
» Imbolc at Roslin
» IndieWebCamp Edinburgh
» Don't use the PGP Keyservers
» Hammocks for Cycle Touring
» Oiling Thinkpad X61 fans
» Nacimiento de un río
» Cycles Closing in Colombia
» Sailing San Blas
» Panama
» Vipassana
» Mother Aya, Aunt Jurema
» Dreads
» Honduras
» El Salvador
» Utila
» Minimising Water Usage when Travelling
» USA Calling
» Belize
» An emotional day
» Chino
» Bella
» The Actun Tunichil Muknal (ATM) Cave
» Guatemala
» An unpleasant day
» Some Recent Karma
» Babylon by Bus
» Wind and Fire
» Oaxaca Healing Rainbow
» gibt es einen buddhistischen Tempel in der Nähe?
» San Cristobal de las Casas
» Getting into the Bathtub
» PEMEX
» Finally Moving
» The Bike is Important
» The Palenque Rainbow Gathering
» Intimate Shitting
» Gods
» A Great Flood and a Rainbow
» Going to the Palenque Rainbow Gathering
» First Test of Solar Charger
» Cancun
» Fruit is not Allowed
» First day in Mexico
» Leaving Edinburgh
» Cycle Who
» .self
» Limiting Exposures
» Making a Solar Panel Mount for a Bike
» Teardown: (Probably fake) Griffin USB Car Charger (FAIL)
» Streetmachine Gte and Bacchetta Bella test ride
» How to sound like a Dalek using Pure Data
» Bolts for Bikes
» River Song - Music Hack Day Scotland
» The Forest of London
» Free Food
» Living and Travelling without Money
» Servicing a Thinkpad x60s Fan and cooling system
» Love and Light as a Service
» Coderace, and trying an Android phone for navigation
» Constant Current Load
» Ebay MC34063 based USB car PSU
» How to kill a MOSFET
» Make a bicycle parking brake with inner tube
» Testing a Maplin Solar Briefcase and Maximum Power Point
» Cheap but not rubbish multimeters available in the UK
» Fire Slackline
» Vegan Crunk Night
» Vegan
» Nyan cat, Psytrance, Meditation, Programming
» Teardown: Vivitar Charger for Canon NB2L Battery
» The Bulgarian
» Welcome to Serendipitous Blaggagio
» Native Mobile App Development with HTML5
» Living in a Secret Volcano Base
» Torchwood Spinning Triangle
» Visualisation with Area and Circles
» List Comprehensions in Haskell
» Ways of Living
» Relaxing with beer on the CouchDB
» I accidentally the MongoDB
» Learning Haskell - Part 1
» Deleting Code
» SGC SG-211 Mini Smartuner Teardown
» Learning Visualisation: Tools, Books, Notes
» My introduction to the Arduino platform
» Python Edinburgh Mini Conference
» HF Bicycle Mobile Experiment - Part 3 - Illustration
» HF Bicycle Mobile Experiment - Part 2
» HF Bicycle Mobile Experiment - Part 1
» Github Punchcard - Visualising Commit Times
» Rewriting git commit message history across multiple branches
» Frist Post

River is a humanoid based on the planet Earth (pictured above). It likes electronics, computering, and adventures through time and space.

Would you care for a tickybox?

The last article I wrote was Thinkpad power socket fixing.

The last event I replied to was Homebrew Website Club Europe/London.

Recent notes

I have a university tilde page now: https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/river.macleod

meow

“This is not a joke - this is Broadcom”

From a 37c3 talk on an ethernet chip that requires to bitbang a clock into itself, through a multiplexer, rather that Broadcom fix the firmware.

Recent photos
Horse Detector
Horse Detector. The Vaisala WXT510 horse detector seems to be working. It emits NMEA0183 messages. The last field of the $WIMWD sentence, before the checksum, is 'V' for horse detected, and 'A' for no horse.

The Vaisala WXT510 horse detector seems to be working. It emits NMEA0183 messages. The last field of the $WIMWD sentence, before the checksum, is ‘V’ for horse detected, and ‘A’ for no horse.

Soft dog
Soft dog. Famous for the soft dog error of the Hacklab's laser cutter.

Famous for the soft dog error of the Hacklab’s laser cutter.

Bombed building
Bombed building