Codepope's Development Hell


Because development is hell, but it's my hell.

August and that took longer than I expected

“Oh” I thought to myself, I should bring in all the old Codescaling posts to this one blog now, removing the Wordpress from my world. And so the task began. First came parsing and reassembling the Wordpress archives into directories and files I could use to populate things with. And that lead to me realising all the links and folder structure currently here was, to put it mildly, pants. So I set about normalising it to page bundles (a Hugo thing) and…

July Update - I have a vision

Well, I got older and got a Vision, but thats about helping me focus. And I finally got to press the button on a long planned project which will have a direct impact on my making…

PSA - Gan Chargers and SBCs

Just a swift PSA about the problem you’ll find with GaN chargers and single board computers and other USB-C powered devices.

Shelf Life - Stowing the servers

In the style of Blur, ‘Shelf Life!’. Under the desk lives the servers and a zillion dust bunnies and long forgotten cables… but what was I going to do about them. Join me as I tidy up and find a great way to store gear….

All about the pacing

A quick catchup on what’s been happening in development hell into May

In before the deadline

A quick catchup on what’s been happening in development hell in February and March

No Post January - Clickers and Doorbells

In which the codepope realises there is no such thing as no-post-january

Reset for 2024

In which the codepope considers what has been slowing down his creative/breaking urges and resolves to do 2024 differently

Reconnecting with Superconnector

Back to the SuperConnector after moving to a new phone and forgetting that would break it. And that was a great time to look at fixing some very irritating issues… which SwiftUI made ridiculously easy.

Beastly

What do you get when you take the taste of the 80s and the Z80s and mix it with a dash of modern vibes? You get the MicroBeast; retro, but not…