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2025
2024
How you slice it
I’m really enjoying my 3D printer. Over the past few years I have spent too much money upgrading it and tweaking settings…
2023
Breathing New Life into my MacBook Air
A new life for my MacBook Air. My old MacBook Air became a WinBook Air running Windows 10 natively.
Journey into 3D Printing
I’ve have a new 3D printer to learn about. I have been dialing it in ready to print a full-size endoskeleton arm (amongst other things).
2022
Bouncing Buttons
Mechanical elements of buttons can create noise when pressed and released. I was looking at options to debounce buttons in the most memory efficient way.
Fully Modified Uncle Bob
I have been busy working on Uncle Bob. He now sports a range of modifications.
2021
Calling Time on my Time Capsule
My Time Capsule started making rattling, grunting, whining noises and overheating. Was it time to call time on my Time Capsule?
Uncle Bob’s Tricky Halloween
Uncle Bob went down a storm with all the trick-or-treaters this Halloween.
Full Bodied Bob
Uncle Bob now has both arms and legs. He will start to look menacing as soon as he can stand up.
Jekyll Related Posts
Now you can include a configurable set of related pages without relying on custom plugins, so works with GitHub Pages.
Awesome Actions!
GitHub Actions and Python scripting come together to produce an auto-updating GitHub Profile page.
Uncle Bob
I made some progress with Uncle Bob. With a bit of focus and I can progress more.
The UML: A little more than boxes and lines
A number of years ago I wrote myself an abridged guide to UML…
Bashing out script locations
$(basename “$0”) does not always give a script its own real location…
I’m gonna need a bigger box
My Terminiator T-800 model build is half completed. It all started back in March 2021 with the arrival of a six-pack of boxes.
Migrating to Minimal Mistakes
Minimal mistakes is a great Jekyll theme. Perfect for building personal sites, blogs, and portfolios.
From Ring & Reserve to Click & Collect
10 years on I am reminded of an article I read from 2011 about Click & Collect.
2020
The New Bible for IT Architects
I have just finished reading The Software Architect Elevator by Gregor Hohpe. It is rare these days for me to read a book from cover to cover. This was a wel...
Bashing out Spaces
There’s no need to use tr, sed and awk to trim whitespace from variables in Bash. Here’s how.
Bashing out basename and dirname
To find out the file and path components of a full filename, code similar to the following is often used: fullname="/path/to/filename" filename=$(basename "$...
A shell script logging framework
“ShLog” is a shell script logging framework. Check out the framework here.
The pain of low quality far outlasts the joy of low price
Welcome to 2020.