The digital home of Richard Garside

This is my digital home, a resting place for my personal and client projects. I'm a web developer based in Leeds. I specialise in .NET MVC and apps for Windows 10 and Mac. You can find out more about me here.

Recent stuff from my blog

Leeds Light Night Unofficial Map

My new Everywhere Maps project is almost ready to go live. To showcase how good it is at helping you find places I've made this Unofficial map of Leeds Light Night 2026.

The site lets you embed maps you've made like this one that I made. You can log in and make lists of places you're interested in.If you're thinking of going to Light Night this year you can use this map and:Favourite the things you want to see so you don't miss themHit "show you are here" to work out which is closest thing and help you find it.Use the send to button to open your mobile navigation app and get you to what you' …

Tiny Pnger

Tiny Pnger is now available on the Mac Store following it's Windows release a while ago.I made Tiny Pnger because I loved Tiny PNG, but I often needed to use it on more than a few images. Tiny Pnger gives you the amazing image compression you get with Tiny PNG and makes it really easy to do this with full folders of images, even where that folder has a folder structure you want to keep.

EV Calculator

I've been thinking of buying a new car for a while and I really wanted to go electric. I saw petrol prices go up, but I also was starting to see the high price of public EV charging. I was fairly sure home charging would be much cheaper than petrol, but I started to wonder if EVs were always cheaper when compared to public charging.You can't compare the prices of petrol to electricity directly, so it's not obvious. I decided to make an EV calculator to help me make sense of the pricing and to compare petrol to electric.EV Calc shows you how many miles you'll get for your money based on your …

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