Jul 24, 2023Retooling the desktop
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.
Jun 24, 2023Isolating the home devices
A dive into the idea of personal infrastructure and workflows and laptops.
May 20, 2023Bookmarks (Mastodon to Raindrop) syncing in Go
So earlier in the week Andy Piper wondered out loud on Mastodon if anyone had done a bookmark manager for Mastodon. I didn’t know of any but it did that thing that kicks my brain off, but not in a “write a bookmark manager” way. I use Raindrop.io to manage bookmarks and I’m not going to change … and it’s a good cross platform way of taking care of bookmarks, archiving and curating.
May 8, 2023Micropython and PyCharm
Seeking an IDE. Working with MicroPython recently made me realise now, more than ever, how poorly the small board Python community is with tooling. The apparent choice of Mu editor and Thonny doesn’t come out as a great choices. That’s mainly, for me at least, because they talk to the boards ok, but the editing experience is dismal. Oddly selected keystrokes, atypical interactions, iffy window handling, very little in the way of useful syntax highlighting, almost no code navigation outside a file….
Apr 15, 2023Booting The Turing
So the Turing Pi 2 landed and I went to get it up and running… and then I ran into an issue I should have realised earlier, so much earlier.