Whatfettle
The personal site and infrequent journal of Paul Downey (@psd), a doodling hacker living in Berkhamsted, England.
Principles for prototyping
June 2014Anybody can make a thing. Making the right thing is harder.
Dyhipstertopic
June 2012That's a cool idea, but isn't it evil?
Pivotal Cards
May 2012A bookmarklet to generate index cards for Pivotal Tracker stories.
Dangerous doodles
February 2012Idle doodles on post-it notes
SolderPad
September 2011A Web site for Open Source electronic projects.
NAND Cat has a Posse
August 2011After encountering the small act of genius that is The NAND Cat the world deserved clean SVG and PDF versions. A "has a posse" sticker was inevitable, really.
Happy Cybus 2 Day!
March 2011Worrying about my friends queuing for an upgrade of locked-down hardware which is under a single point of control.
I-Spy The Web
February 2011A talk at Ignite London #4 on I-Spy books and curation on The Web.
FTE is People!
November 2010In a financial meeting overwhelmed by abbreviations someone made the mistake of asking “What is FTE?”
For a Confused Visualisation
November 2010An attempt to visualise JP's Enterprise 2.0 Boston keynote in real time.
Preso
October 2010A reformulation of ProjectCecily into Preso, a zoomable landscape presentation tool.
The Tarot of REST
October 2010A collection of playing cards; an oblique stratergies for REST, if you will.
Plot Unfolder
October 2010Choose your own adventure folding books made using TiddlySpace and available in HTML and PDF formats.
REST Design Cards
September 2010Playing cards for paper prototyping RESTful designs and HTTP interactions.
HTTP Pocket Book
September 2010A HTTP quick reference made using TiddlyPocketBook [PDF].
WS-Bluff
September 2010An enterprisey "Call My Bluff" game made for the XML Summer School.
OSHUG
April 2010A logo and Web site as the co-founder and compère of OSHUG — The Open Source Hardware User Group, a monthly meetup, in and around London.
The Progressive Enhancement Podcast
November 2009An rare podcast about The Web made with the marvelous Phil Hawksworth.
TiddlySlidy
September 2009A TiddlyWiki based slideshow authoring tool.
Unicode Snowman has a Posse
August 2009The Unicode Snowman has a Posse, so he does.
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Open Source for Business
September 2009Flyer for Osmosoft's work on open source governance.
Geekery is The Social Capital of Britain
July 2009A map of Britain, from the point of a geek.
ETSI 2.0
July 2009Invitated to give a provocative talk on Web 2.0 at an ETSI board meeting. There were fireworks.
No Numbers
July 2009The code for Andrew Back's artwork “No Numbers”.
TiddlyPocketBook
May 2009A TiddlyWiki to make folding pocketbooks, inspired by Brian Suda and Natalie Downe.
Standards are to Peace as Standardisation is to War
March 2009Invited to speak at QCon London on a “historically bad idea”, the obvious subject to speak about was “standardisation”.
The rdfQuery Logo
April 2009The logo of the rdfQuery project.
Standeace
March 2009A portmanteau for a sampler on Web standardisation.
Sketchnotes
Notes scribbled at events where it's not too dark to see what you're doing.
CharBotGreen
January 2009An avatar for Libby Miller's twitter bot. We were super-excited to hear Charlotte Green's reaction on the radio.
The URI is the Thing
October 2008What began as an explanation of the value of Openness and The Web for integration ended up being a dark tristesse on the state of enterprise software development: Middleware hell, ruled by BPELzibub.
One World, One Web
August 2008My contribution as a One Web Day ambassador — a promotional tea-towel of Web culture.
TiddlyProcessing
May 2008An IDE for processing.js in TiddlyWiki.
Moral Compass Pins
November 2007Badges made from a corner of The Web is Agreement, as sported by some of the best people. Stop me and ask for one.
The Web is Agreement
November 2007A Tolken-esque map of how Web standardisation works.
Bile Card
October 2007A card to cut out and keep with you.
Lissajours Tables
May 2007Lissajours figures drawn using HTML tables.
W3C Databinding
April 2007Time served as Chair of the W3C XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group.
Mashing Up The Mobile
April 2007A demonstration of “Web Dog and Bone” — a Twitter clone with groups, capabable of making conference calls at WWW2007 conference in Banff, Canada.
Fielding has a Posse
March 2007Warning: people care about The Web and guardians of REST can be a scary bunch.
Hardboiled hCards
Experiments with presenting hCards using nicely degrading markup and CSS3.
Accounting Sense != Common Sense
Made to explain why being assigned a budget isn't the same as being able to spend money.
BT Mojo
A RESTful exposure of the Web21C SDK, which was nice.
Quiz Sheets
Cryptic picture quiz sheets made for the annual school spring fair. Amazingly we sold more than 160 of these each year.
Clustr
An experiment in presenting a group's flickr photographs for a single event as a timeline.
Flyr
Search for and view geotagged Flickr photos on a map. Possibly now defunct and irrelevant with Flickr maps.
Good Web APIs are just Web sites
A talk advocating building Web sites accessable by both machines and people rather than APIs.
Chad
An IRC bot for conducting preference polls used by a number of different W3C working groups and 300 very odd people at the 2006 Technical Plenary.
Textorizer
A PHP extension for Max Froumain's Textorizer, superseded by his JavaScript version.