Codepope's Development Hell

I got a Lidar and it’s been a daft experience as none of the ‘supplied’ software works with it…

So I have this fancy DAB radio and I wanted to control it over Wifi from my phone. A journey of old protocols and odd limitations began…

Rebooting the blog again

Some of the sounds in Developer Hell

A roundup of 2022 in Development Hell

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?

A quick item on Google's (deprecated but still there) QR code generating endpoint

May Be A Circle May comes around and I realise my intention to post regularly has been well, this is an embarassed look to the side. So what’s been going on in the various circles of development hell…. DoNotDisturb So the dnd project at add do not disturb (dnd) lights at the door to the office with a remote switch was both completed and dismantled. The project scope expanded to include a CO2, Temperature, and Humidity sensor which would pump stats into the MQTT broker while it also managed the lights.

An update on hacking three languages at the same time

A short weekly look at things on my radar