Codepope's Development Hell

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

Casing the Keychainino

So I got me a new Keychainino, a tiny charlie plexed keyring that comes with a breakout game. But I didn't feel it's 144 LEDs were safe when I shoved in in my pocket. Time to learn me some Freecad and sculpt up a case.

Posted by Codepope on Saturday, February 22, 2025

Rack Attack

In which a Mini Rack is built, a new obsession is acknowledged and excuses made for a whole lotta no posting. How does that work?

Posted by Codepope on Sunday, February 2, 2025

ESP 101

Getting some Spectrum Nexts doing wifi was a bit of a blast from the past but probably not in the way you think.... This time it was the past of the tiny wifi board which could and probably still does.

Posted by Codepope on Sunday, November 24, 2024

Turing Klustered

Finally getting the Turing Pi 2 cluster up and running with K8S and how it feels different when its all happening under your desk.

Posted by Codepope on Sunday, October 27, 2024

Fun with a pi and a pico 2 and keys-to-go 2

Or another day at HackWimbledon

How I spent the day hacking on some long running projects and getting nowhere with them fast but learning all along the way. Oh yes, that'll teach me.

Posted by Codepope on Sunday, October 20, 2024

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…

Posted by codepope on Saturday, August 31, 2024

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…

Posted by codepope on Sunday, July 28, 2024
Last Modified on Saturday, August 31, 2024

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.

Posted by codepope on Sunday, June 9, 2024
Last Modified on Saturday, August 31, 2024

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….

Posted by Codepope on Sunday, May 26, 2024
Last Modified on Sunday, October 20, 2024

All about the pacing

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

Posted by Codepope on Saturday, May 18, 2024
Last Modified on Saturday, August 31, 2024