James Thomas

Finally wrote up how I built an AI-powered virtual speed camera: jamesthom.as/2022/05/ai-pow… I did this about 12 months ago now - it was actually successful in helping persuade the council to install traffic calming measures on the road.

The Safer Streets trial is well under way in Withington 🚸 🚶🚴 @crispeater @beenetwork @becky_cham

Why shouldn't I use @awscloud Cognito UserPool Group Roles to provide Lambda access to backend services via AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity using the JWT? I know Cognito Identity Pools is the "proper" solution - but seems like overkill for simple use-cases.

I've got loads of small content like this I want to share from recent serverless projects I've been working on. First of many blog posts hopefully...

Adding HTTP Auth to @awscloud S3 Bucket Websites with CloudFront Functions: jamesthom.as/2022/10/passwo…

@quiline Let's have a chat - james@jamesthom.as

@thomasj Hi James, I really need one of these - I live on a road with a serious speeding problem. A cat was killed yesterday and we’re terrified for our pets and children. I can’t code though. Please can we have a chat?

Finally wrote up how I built an AI-powered virtual speed camera: jamesthom.as/2022/05/ai-pow… I did this about 12 months ago now - it was actually successful in helping persuade the council to install traffic calming measures on the road.

Still buzzing off yesterday. Ended up sat about 10 foot from the 🐐. Almost close enough to touch 😂. UTFR 🔴🔴🔴.

@matthieunapoli Yes it would - will have a look. Thank you.

@thomasj Would port7777.com help here?

AWS Client VPN seemed like a nice way to access VPC services locally without having to run a proxy EC2 instance. Works fine until my billing alerts started coming through... *hmm* didn't read the pricing well enough....

More details here: twingate.com/blog/aws-vpn-p… tldr; always read pricing fine-print and always have billing alerts set up.

Turns out you're charged an hourly fee for each client endpoint (regardless of usage) = $73 dollars a month. No thanks - back to ssh -i /key-pair.pem username@instance-id -L localport:targethost:destport for me.

@HarryHamishGray @Sacha_Lord Mass cycle trespass mk II? "How many bikes can we fit on a tram...."

@edspencer Glad it helped - it's such a frustrating error.

@thomasj thanks for jamesthom.as/2021/02/aws-s3… - that was going to take me hours to figure out 🙏🏻

@twoowls73 Hello. Feel free to ask - probably best open a Github issue with help you need on the project repo? I'm happy to help a bit but probably can't be a long-term mentor I'm afraid.

@sarahurmson Let me know if you get stuck.... Happy to help

A resident of Manchester built an artificial intelligent powered speed camera, and used the evidence to persuade his local council to install traffic calming jamesthom.as/2022/05/ai-pow…

@sarahurmson There's a similar app called speedcamanywhere.com - does that help? You can run it yourself for free but I know that needs familiarity with tech stuff. How long would the footage be?

@timgummer Yes it'll work fine I think. Just need to change the label it looks for in the API results from car to bike.

@thomasj great! any chance it would work on bicycles? - i have a risk-factoring study i want to run

@johnpmulvey You'd need someone with development skills and familiarity with machine learning models. It's not rocket science but does need good software engineering skills.

@thomasj If i wanted to ask someone to come in and do this for me, what would i be asking for.? is Networking or coding or something else,(its beyond me) but i have extensive CCTV would love to set one camera as a live feed on YouTube and add this to another, but don't know who to ask for

@matnewts @RoSPA @roadsafety @dharford79 @BedfordTweets @NationalHways @H_S_E Thanks Mat - hope you have a nice bank holiday too!

@RoSPA @roadsafety @dharford79 @BedfordTweets @NationalHways @H_S_E This bloke needs to win safety awards get a massive funding grant and be given a promotion. Hope he has a great bank holiday weekend too Imagine how many lives this will save if applied correctly.

@AndHab Good question - I'm not sure. I did try it with really poor quality video due to heavy Manchester rain and it did fine so could be okay?