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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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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.

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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.

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