Peter Scoins

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I'm Peter Scoins - but most call me "British Pete".

Translating high-level technical jargon into clear, actionable business logic. Explore my archive of thoughts on DAM, strategy, and operations.

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Digital Curiosities

Interactive learning tools, tech concepts, and experimental stuff about Digital Asset Management and other technologies broken down with British Pete style humour and wit!

Glossary

DAM Glossary for Humans

High-level technical jargon translated into clear, actionable British Humour filled business logic. No buzzwords!

Guide

The Metadata Larder

A visual guide to why labeling your 'jam' matters (if Jam was digital assets!).

Interactive

Digital Asset Archaeology

An interactive vertical exploration of technical debt and digital preservation. Dig through 60 years of data history.

Interactive

The Metadata Detective

An interactive page demonstrating embedded metadata importance using a magnifying glass reveal effect.

Interactive

The Stochastic Lens Analogy

An interactive educational exhibit exploring the "mathematical gamble" of AI image recognition.

Guide

Lifecycle of a Pixel

Follow Percy the Sourdough Loaf Photograph through 12 stages of unmanaged digital purgatory.

Game

DRM Minefield

Interactive simulation exploring unmanaged asset distribution formatted as a 90s Windows game.

Guide

Decoding Content Credentials (C2PA)

Interactive masterclass defining cryptographic "Security Seals" and digital provenance in an AI world.

Interactive

Dunk-o-Matic 5000

Stress-test your DAM setup. Are your asset operations rock-solid like a Rich Tea, or collapsing like a soggy Pink Wafer?

Game

Super DAM Bros.

Retro arcade game about rescuing company assets from chaotic local storage silos into a central DAM.

Guide

Why Digital Colours Shift

A grand tour of light waves, color gamuts (sRGB, P3, CMYK), and mechanics to prevent cyan hues from crying.

Interactive

Demystifying Taxonomy

How taxonomy powers AI search, plus the interactive "Tag-It!" mini-game to test your sorting speed.

Game

Duplicate Hunt: The Arcade Game


Test your reflexes by shooting down runaway file duplicates in this retro-inspired arcade shooter in the accompanying game!

Guide

Attack of the Clones: Handling Duplication in Your DAM

How duplicate assets sneak into DAM systems - and how binary checksums, perceptual hashing, and dynamic renditions eliminate digital clutter.

Game

DAM-dle


When Wordle meets DAM... with an added twisted, can you guess the DAM related word?

Projects

Things I’ve built, broken, and tinkered with when nobody was paying me to do it. Passion projects and side-quests.

3D & Engine Tech

Digital Masonry: Donnington Castle in Quake

Reconstructing 14th-century Berkshire castle ruins inside a 1996 Quake game engine.

Home Infrastucture & DIY

Building a Solar Backup Home Power Vault

From a chaotic weekend grid failure to a bulletproof, two-tier solar backup system.

Other Pages

Hidden gems and misplaced stuff. Essentially the digital junk drawer.

Game

FIFA President Simulator

Survive 12 rounds of real-world scandals, offshore bank accounts, and FBI heat in this retro strategy game.

Restricted

Secret Squirrel

A classified directory deep within the network architecture covered in discarded nutshells.

RFC Implementation

The Teapot Protocol (Error 418)

A technical implementation of RFC 2324 proving the system has a sense of humor.

Blog Posts

A chronological filing cabinet of technical debt and epiphanies.