Codepope's Development Hell

Rebooting the blog again

Some of the sounds in Developer Hell

A roundup of 2022 in Development Hell

An update on hacking three languages at the same time

A short weekly look at things on my radar

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.

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).

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 The Joystick:bit has been replaced by a version 2.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.

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.

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.