Welcome to Adam Sampson's web pages.
Sections
- Code: free software that I've written.
- Music: my main hobby these days.
- Tech Notes: occasional notes on technical matters.
- Publications: my academic work.
- Recipes: things my friends and I like to cook.
- Books: brief reviews of books I've read.
- Ideas: things I've not done yet.
Articles
- Some of the software I use.
- Rediffusion in Canterbury: what's left of Canterbury's original cable TV system.
About me (and these pages)
- How to contact me.
- My wishlist.
Other sites
- The Us-Lot pages.
- The Us-Lot log (feed).
- My bookmarks (feed).
- I work as an associate professor of computer science at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.
- Bands I play with sometimes include the Staffin Island Ceilidh Band and Aff the Cuff.
Recent changes
| Date | Files | Changes |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-08 | code/potamus/ | potamus 18. |
| 2025-07-08 | code/ | Improve Potamus's description. |
| 2025-07-08 | code/vdesk/ | vdesk 1.3. It's been 22 years since the last release, but I still occasionally get questions about it. |
| 2025-07-08 | code/logtailer/ | logtailer 7. |
| 2025-07-08 | code/freedt/ | freedt 24. |
| 2025-07-08 | code/onenetd/ | onenetd 13. I've been fixing C23 compatibility problems in a lot of other projects recently, and some of my C projects haven't had a release for a while... |
| 2025-07-08 | code/freedt/ code/onenetd/ code/rawdog/ |
Remove links to mailing lists for my projects. These haven't been used for a while, and the list server is currently disabled. |
| 2025-07-08 | code/onenetd/ | Reword the note about the UK Mirror Service. |
| 2025-07-08 | wishlist | Update wishlist. |
| 2024-01-01 | wishlist | Update wishlist. |
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