I created this app as a simple demonstration of how to use WebSockets to chart real-time finance data (in this case Bitcoin’s price) using Twelvedata APIs, React (specifically Next.js) and vector drawing library D3.js.
Realtime finance chart app
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DinkyBots
Go and have a look at an early version of the first in a series of games I’ll be creating, DinkyBots. It may seem familiar to some old school gamers 😉 but requires Flash for now. So I’ve provided a download of Firefox Portable with Flash for Windows.
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About Spikything
I’m a creative developer with over 25 years industry experience in web / games / app / video production, design and development.
I have built award-winning websites, popular games, apps used by millions and everything in-between. I have led small teams in the areas of tech, advertising, gaming, finance and broadcasting.
Currently my focus is the development of high-performance UIs for resource constrained Connected TV devices.
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Next-gen TV apps
I recently started working for Simplestream creating their next generation Connected TV apps. Simplestream provide OTT solutions for just about every Connected TV or Set Top Box device you can think of – including a turnkey solution for ingest, encoding and management of monetisation models.
What I do
Creating OTT apps for HbbTV / Smart TV and Set Top Box devices, using JavaScript / TypeScript / BBC TAL / React / Preact. Responsible for developing and maintaining the Hybrid TV product, coordinating software releases, balancing requests across over a dozen clients, coordinating with QA, optimising UX, ensuring a stable and performant UI from a single code base across hundreds of big screen devices from Freeview, Freely, Freesat, Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, YouView, Hisense VIDAA, TiVo, Liberty Global Horizon, etc.
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