Rob Beynon

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Occasional notes.

Ein Taith Gymraeg (Our Welsh journey) 22 Sep 2026

Learning the 'Language of my Fathers'

How do you keep records of your bird (and other animal) pictures? 22 Sep 2026

Non trivial, with 80,000 pictures and counting.

Bird photography: the beginning 21 Sep 2026

Blaming the equipment, decades of manufacturer-hopping, and the two cameras that actually turned things around.

Hello, and welcome 21 Sep 2026

A placeholder first post — edit or delete it once a real one exists.

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Distractions

What else takes up the time.

Harnessing the sun

Four years in, 29 Megawatts of solar energy captured

Dysgu Cymraeg

A suite of Welsh language learning apps, built together with Jane.

Stained glass

Lead, solder, and copper foil — cutting and joining coloured glass the old-fashioned way.

Growing your own

A vegetable patch and the occasional stab at self-sufficiency.

Resources for science

Tools written for other people to use.

pH Buffer Calculator

A free calculator for thermodynamically corrected pH buffers, used to make over 1.3 million of them.

PeptideMapper

Paste a protein sequence, choose a protease, and get back an annotated peptide map.

ZWITTER

Amino acid playing cards, designed as a lockdown outreach project.

PeptideMapper for Multiple Sequences

Compare digested peptides across several protein sequences at once.

Protein Sequence Dot Plot Analyzer

Compares two protein sequences as a customizable dot plot.