My Mrs has an Amiga 500 that she is desperate to play and reclaim her childhood, but the CRT monitor broke. We don’t have room for a CRT so I decided to mod it to output the AV to HDMI… Continue Reading →
1. Automate the boring stuff… A client needed to send short email every day with pre-prepared content to a list of people in google contacts who have a specific label. At the moment, they are doing this by creating and… Continue Reading →
Here’s a list of interesting blogs or useful posts from the design, business or leadership side of software engineering. The cover a range of topics but I’m specifically excluded detailed coding tutorials. I’ve most found these from Y Combinator’s Hacker… Continue Reading →
To setup the mAP lite as a wifi client and provide network access to a device connected to the ethernet port, I followed these steps
I created my own concise quick reference guide / cheat sheet for debugging anything. The free PDF guide has ten steps, and each step has a simple Python example to illustrate it, and there’s a space to write notes about the system or bug you are currently working on. It’s based on David Agan’s ‘Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems’.
During a recent project I had to take a number of tables from a PDF into a spreadsheet. PDFs are great for viewing but with tables they don’t always preserve the structure. Unfortunately my spreadsheet software could not split the… Continue Reading →
How Operating Systems are like Knights If found this here years ago when I first got the internet back in ’98, and I remember my friend Gavin writing some extra bits for our own geeky exploits. I couldn’t find what… Continue Reading →
I was recently asked by a client to port a simple web-based javascript program to an iOS app. I was pretty keen to try my hand at something new, however I’ve got a big idealogical problem with Apple – mostly… Continue Reading →
Setup and use a new online repo Sign in to github or bitbucket; start a new repository; add .gitignore (things to exclude such as your python virtualenv, config files with passwords etc), then follow the instructions to: Setup new online… Continue Reading →
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