Codepope’s 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?

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QR Codes for free¹ QR Codes are one of the weirder successes out there. Honestly, I thought they were ridiculous originally, when seeing them plastered on the side of a building in San Francisco. Why? They just felt like an odd clash of low and high tech to me. Well I was wrong and in other parts of the world, they turned out to be the cheapest way of wirelessly pushing small bits of data into devices, and not by using RF but instead using the camera.

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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.

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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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