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Dale Mellor

Greetings, welcome to my web page.

Once I wanted to be a fire engine driver. Then I accidentally did well at some things at school, and wanted to go to university. You canʼt get a degree in fire engine driving, so I decided to go in for subnuclear quantum physics. I found myself spending most of my time making the big calculators work better, so after I graduated I looked to do something computational and ended up spending the next four decades banging keyboards.

If I find spare time and spare energy, I hack. I hack my house, cars, computer, web server, mathematical models, science fiction... if itʼs hackable, Iʼll have a go. If it doesnʼt look like it belongs to me, it soon will. This page is a summary of my hacking activities, for your amusement.

If you feel compelled to comment or just to say hi, Iʼm at https://rdmp.org/dale-mellor/contact.

Enjoy!

Programming

FOSS: Free, open-source software

Since the pandemic, re-focussed on Rust and Guix.

Before that, 30 years a professional C++ developer.

As well as on the local server (links below), most of this software is also published on Github, which I hate.

Attic - decrepit old projects >>>

Writing


Two heraldic shields clustered behind a window pane. Window on Winsfordʼs Councils, deep dives into current and recent proceedings in the councils which control the town of Winsford.

Enterprise icon Some notes I wrote about the time I built a card Star Trek Enterprise.

Right-Angled Triangles Right-Angled Triangles, a book which provides an alternative approach to learning and understanding the maths of right-angled triangles.

Theory of GCSE Numbers, a Youtube channel which comprehensively reviews all aspects of numbers a GCSE student should know.

Understanding Deaf Culture, a critical review of a book written by one Paddy Ladd.

The Bubble, a poem about deafness.

((There are some other minor warblings about deafness here.))

Mcron white paper, version 1.0, June 2003

Defenders of the Laws of Physics a fun sci-fi screenplay I wrote for television and am now releasing to the public.


Non-parametric MTB rainfall forecasting system, version 2.0, February 2003 (unfinished)

Bridges, C. P., Kenyon, S., Shaw, P., Simons, E., Visagie, L., Theodorou, T., Yeomans, B., Parsons, J., Lappas, V., Underwood, C., Jason, S., Mellor, D., Wellstead, P., Schofield, A., Linehan, R., Barrera-Ars, J., Dyer, B., Liddle, D., Sweeting, M. N. (2013)
       A Baptism of Fire: The STRaND-1 Nanosatellite.
Proceedings of the SmallSat conference, Utah.

Kenyon, S., Bridges, C. P., Liddle, D., Dyer, R., Parsons, J., Feltham, D., Taylor, R., Mellor, D., Schofield, A. and Linehan, R. (2011)
       STRaND-1: Use of a $500 Smartphone as the Central Avionics of a Nanosatellite.
Proceedings of the 62nd International Astronautical Congress

Mellor, D., Sheffield, J., OʼConnell, P. E. and Metcalfe, A. V. (2000)
       A stochastic space-time rainfall forecasting system for real time flow forecasting. I. Development of MTB conditional rainfall scenario generator.
Hydrol. Earth System Sci., 4, 603-615.

Mellor, D., Sheffield, J., OʼConnell, P. E. and Metcalfe, A. V. (2000)
       A stochastic space-time rainfall forecasting system for real time flow forecasting. II. Application of SHETRAN and ARNO rainfall runoff models to the Brue catchment.
Hydrol. Earth System Sci., 4, 617-626.

Mellor, D. and Metcalfe, A. V. (1996)
       The Modified Turning Bands (MTB) model for space-time rainfall. I. Model definition and properties.
J. Hydrol., 175, 113-127.

Mellor, D. and Metcalfe, A. V. (1996)
       The Modified Turning Bands (MTB) model for space-time rainfall. II. Estimation of raincell parameters.
J. Hydrol., 175, 129-159.

Mellor, D. and Metcalfe, A. V. (1996)
       The Modified Turning Bands (MTB) model for space-time rainfall. III. Estimation of the storm/rainband profile and discussion of the future model prospects.
J. Hydrol., 175, 161-180.

Mellor, D. (1993)
       The Modified Turning Bands (MTB) Model for space-time rainfall.
Ph. D. Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Painting

Crafting codeʼs one way to relax, and get a high when it all works. However, sometimes you just have to get away from the shackles of syntax and do something freeform. Below are some of the less constrained hacks Iʼve done...

White winged unicorn on a cloud in front of mountainscape As practice before attacking the car, I did this circa January 1991. It is airbrushed thinned emulsion (the stuff you DIY put on walls) on very thin, wide (36") printer paper.

Sometime Mellormobile, the Golden Eagle Car icon , long since deceased but not forgotten...

Pictures of a former living room. Painting this had been a great way to pass three years of dark winter Sundays...

A couple of other things from former occupations.

Stellar Fables
(4 MB)
Panashe
(45 kB)
Gnu head
Copyright © 2003
Free Software Foundation

Yep, I confess, I did it, I went and painted the melancholy wildebeest...
48 pixels (1 kB) | 256 pixels (10 kB) | 480 pixels (25 kB) | 1055 pixels (90 kB)

Other sundries

You can read my BookBlog here.

My contact page is here.

Here is my GPG key, used both to sign and encrypt e-mail, and to sign key GIT commits (the associated e-mail address, dale-at-rdmp.org, is a black-hole and messages sent there will NOT reach me).

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Last updated May 2024.
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