https://codepope.dev/categories/devhell/Recent content in Devhell on Codepope's Development HellHugoenFri, 16 May 2025 22:32:49 +0100https://codepope.dev/post/2025/05/miscmusing/Sat, 10 May 2025 21:00:00 +0000https://codepope.dev/post/2025/05/miscmusing/The rack ongoing, editors discovered, and other nonsense happening with at the ManLabhttps://codepope.dev/post/2025/02/rackattack/Sun, 02 Feb 2025 17:00:06 +0000https://codepope.dev/post/2025/02/rackattack/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?https://codepope.dev/post/2024/10/20-10-2024-ongoing-bits/Sun, 20 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://codepope.dev/post/2024/10/20-10-2024-ongoing-bits/And then there was a bit of a pause as I regrouped, and around came another HackWimbledon - check out the lu.ma calendar. So what did I do this time round? And what did you miss on my big table. PoE plus Pico Too The newest thing in the agenda is the Wizznet EVB-6100 Pico 2 with Ethernet and its Power over Ethernet daughter board. This is a little idea around putting long term sensors around the ManLab at home.https://codepope.dev/post/2024/08/31-08-2024-that-took-longer/Sat, 31 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://codepope.dev/post/2024/08/31-08-2024-that-took-longer/“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…https://codepope.dev/post/2024/07/28-07-2024-julyupdate/Sun, 28 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://codepope.dev/post/2024/07/28-07-2024-julyupdate/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…https://codepope.dev/post/2024/05/shelflife/Sun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://codepope.dev/post/2024/05/shelflife/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….https://codepope.dev/post/2024/05/pacing/Sat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://codepope.dev/post/2024/05/pacing/A quick catchup on what’s been happening in development hell into Mayhttps://codepope.dev/post/2024/03/in-before-the-deadline/Sat, 30 Mar 2024 16:00:00 +0000https://codepope.dev/post/2024/03/in-before-the-deadline/A quick catchup on what’s been happening in development hell in February and Marchhttps://codepope.dev/post/2024/01/clicker/Sat, 27 Jan 2024 20:24:06 +0000https://codepope.dev/post/2024/01/clicker/In which the codepope realises there is no such thing as no-post-januaryhttps://codepope.dev/post/2023/12/reset-for-2024/Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:21:06 +0000https://codepope.dev/post/2023/12/reset-for-2024/In which the codepope considers what has been slowing down his creative/breaking urges and resolves to do 2024 differentlyhttps://codepope.dev/post/2023/08/ughbuntu/Sun, 27 Aug 2023 21:53:14 +0100https://codepope.dev/post/2023/08/ughbuntu/In which I become irritated at the practical state of desktop Ubuntu…https://codepope.dev/post/2023/07/retooling/Mon, 24 Jul 2023 18:10:07 +0100https://codepope.dev/post/2023/07/retooling/So the latest distraction I have indulged in, much to my chagrin as I’d actually like to achieve something is redoing my day to day desktop toolchain.https://codepope.dev/post/2023/06/isolation/Sat, 24 Jun 2023 19:33:07 +0100https://codepope.dev/post/2023/06/isolation/A dive into the idea of personal infrastructure and workflows and laptops.https://codepope.dev/post/2023/03/18-03-2023-backtolife/Sat, 18 Mar 2023 20:09:00 +0000https://codepope.dev/post/2023/03/18-03-2023-backtolife/An update on the state of the blog and what’s going on with me.https://codepope.dev/post/2022/12/acoustic-diversions/Sat, 31 Dec 2022 16:54:28 +0000https://codepope.dev/post/2022/12/acoustic-diversions/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.https://codepope.dev/post/2022/12/winterval-windup/Tue, 20 Dec 2022 20:22:02 +0000https://codepope.dev/post/2022/12/winterval-windup/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.https://codepope.dev/post/2022/02/mqtt-and-circles/Sat, 05 Feb 2022 13:38:44 +0000https://codepope.dev/post/2022/02/mqtt-and-circles/So, something short to update folks. Circle 1 - Hacking on MQTT, Go, Python and Swift I’ve been currently playing with a polygot project with MQTT. It started with the MuteSync, a button which is wired up with software to mute all your conferencing apps at once. Well, it’s neatly done but I always like to hack into things to make them work more like I want. And actually muting is overrated for me.https://codepope.dev/post/2022/01/circles/Sun, 02 Jan 2022 14:50:53 +0000https://codepope.dev/post/2022/01/circles/So, 2022 eh. Better start doing something here which you may want to read. So this is Circles, a weekly round up of things on my radar. This week, some physical Pi hacking, waiting for a 2.5Gbe PC, some Swift coding, 3D printed stands and a site to check the Prime Ministerial status… Pi hacking (Circle 1) Over the festivus and merinium, I was doing various bits and pieces. The one I’m oddly proud of is also the hackiest.https://codepope.dev/post/2021/02/16-02-2021-lets-go-static/Tue, 16 Feb 2021 14:39:04 +0000https://codepope.dev/post/2021/02/16-02-2021-lets-go-static/Well, there I was thinking Ghost isn’t really what this blog needs and I went for the whole “let’s move to something static”. Static sites are great and cheap to run and there’s some great generators and themes out there. I went with Hugo for a generator and Story for a theme and deployed it all through Netlify. So with all that done, we now have a much simpler blog, I have a fork of Story to work on and I’m planning on blogging here much more regularly; at least I should do as I’m having a bit of a working break at the moment.https://codepope.dev/post/2020/12/21-12-2020-a-grand-update/Mon, 21 Dec 2020 11:29:04 +0000https://codepope.dev/post/2020/12/21-12-2020-a-grand-update/Well, 2020 is coming to an end and boy, we didn’t see that coming. Well we did. So, changes had to be made… HackWimbledon has evolved into Makeroni which now is weekly online (Zoom) and every day (Discord). I’ve been making various things there. Lots of fun with 433Mhz doorbells and an M5 Atom to create a doorbell listener which flashes and triggers a push notification through the PushSafer service. More 3D Printing but still no designing yet (That’s a 2021 resolution right there).https://codepope.dev/post/2020/03/21-03-2020-a-clue-and-a-joystick-bit/Sat, 21 Mar 2020 18:29:23 +0000https://codepope.dev/post/2020/03/21-03-2020-a-clue-and-a-joystick-bit/So I’ve been having a little bit of a hack (at HackWimbledon) on the Adafruit Clue alpha and having some of Elecfreaks Joystick:bits to hand I thought I’d get them working together. The Joystick:bit has been replaced by a version 2. Apart from anything else, all the supporting code and libraries (what little there were) have been updated for the new Joystick:bit. Which is a pain as the original has the oddest buttons you’ve ever seen.https://codepope.dev/post/2019/10/20-10-2019-bitburst/Sun, 20 Oct 2019 22:53:05 +0000https://codepope.dev/post/2019/10/20-10-2019-bitburst/So, I’ve not been around on the blog, but things carry on…. Current project - Tetvaders PoC; Tetris and Space Invaders in one particle powered fun show - eventually want to put it onto LED panels Current irritation - The Beaglebone AI - lovely board but docs are sorely lacking and what docs there are tell you you need a heatsink or a fan. SBC design fail de jour, there’s too many new SBCs which need a fan.https://codepope.dev/post/2019/06/06-06-2019-getting-mobile/Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:46:18 +0000https://codepope.dev/post/2019/06/06-06-2019-getting-mobile/Well I was hoping to go mobile with Ghost so I could blog anywhere but I hit a snag. Simply put, there is no mobile blogging app I can find for iOS so far. So plan B is blogging with the Android app for Ghost. No excuse now. So now I had better get writing about my rain rainbow device, my PiDP11/70 build and this BLE plant monitor… Oh and the new SQFMI Badgy which is up on the article pic.https://codepope.dev/post/2019/03/15-03-2019-the-rattling-of-tin-cans-and-string/Fri, 15 Mar 2019 11:42:27 +0000https://codepope.dev/post/2019/03/15-03-2019-the-rattling-of-tin-cans-and-string/Yes, I know, string doesn’t rattle but if you attach enough tin cans to it, it does. That’s a bit like programming. Anyway, welcome to Codepope’s Development Hell. This is my new, personal site, replacing codescaling.net, and looking to be more about the stuff I do. Part of this is also to get me to look after my own IT again. So this is a self-hosted Ghost site up in the cloud on someone else’s computers1.