Codepope’s Development Hell

An update for 2023 So, things have been happening in 2023 and that’s all settled down now as I changed jobs and yes, I was kinda preoccupied with things. Anyway, I’m now living the Postgres life at EnterpriseDB. Lots of fun, lots of challenges and things are such that I’m much more hands on with stuff and a lot happier about kicking things off. So, here’s the plan, smaller posts, one thing per post, whenever they are happening.

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So, this is, according to Apple Music, what I listened most to this year. 1-7 and 10-13 And in a rare wipeout, one album dominated the plays. Cheat Codes, with Danger Mouse and Black Thought, ended up on solid rotation, statistically wiping out anything else in this rundown. There’s not much video for this, but here’s a link to the Cheat Codes album for you to enjoy. 8 And bang in the middle of that list, something that was new to me and was just crackingly good.

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Here we are at the end of the year and oh, yes, I should have posted more. But then that’s the way of things in my head and I’m already adding write more (and make the blog sweeter) to my 2023 resolutions list. Anyway, this is my Winterval Windup where I’ll go through the past years posts and explain what’s gone right or wrong… Starting from the end… Recent Circles Advent of Code(AoC)… I’ve been doing the Advent of Code this year and its been fun though I’ve called a halt around Day 16, because its been getting harder and more algorithm driven and thats been eating my brain time.

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And cripes, nearly out of September and where have we got to? Jupiter Too! After being gently prompted by a Tweet from @johnkennedyesq, I headed off to A2Heaven and acquired me a Jupiter II with expansion. This was about filling a Forth shaped gap in my youth. I was busy with 6502/Basic combos back then and only really discovered Forth when it was the boot control language for Sun SPARCstations (How Cool?

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QR Codes for free¹ QR Codes are one of the weirder successes out there. Honestly, I thought they were ridiculous originally, when seeing them plastered on the side of a building in San Francisco. Why? They just felt like an odd clash of low and high tech to me. Well I was wrong and in other parts of the world, they turned out to be the cheapest way of wirelessly pushing small bits of data into devices, and not by using RF but instead using the camera.

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