Codepope's Development Hell

An edifying weekend saw me looking at a whole load of ESP32 based boards - The WiPy 2.0, the Sparkfun ESP32 Thing and the Huzzah32… and in turn a whole set of MicroPython variants… MicroPython is a shrunk down Python 3 for embedded devices and it can fit in some pretty small spaces - there’s a version for the MicroBit even. Anyway, I wanted to find out if I could do a particular projects proof of concept using MicroPython.

Here’s another little batch of database news I did at the day job…. enjoy. This article was imported from the original CodeScaling blog

Here’s what I wrote for work today. It’s some newsbits for this week… This article was imported from the original CodeScaling blog

Here’s the bits of news I gathered for Compose.com - NewsBits March 3. This article was imported from the original CodeScaling blog

Just popped in a pre-order for RyanTech’s latest. It’s a board with a 40 pin Pi header, USB connector and software for Pixel, Linux, OSX and other operating systems which lets you drive it like a Pi’s GPIO header. There’s just so many neat things you can do with this card. It’ll let you hang that neat Pi Hat off your PC simply. It’ll let you double up your Pi’s GPIO capability.

Well, 2017 is days away and it’s time to make some decisions about this blog. The options are simple, shut it down and make a new personal blog in the style of Codescaling, or carry on here just reworking the site as my personal space. To be honest the latter option seems to be cheapest and most effective, so…. Codescaling is deaded, long live Codescaling. I’ll be working on a new about page along with some new posts about what’s been in my recent makery builds (Z80 boards, Orange Pi, Linkit 7655 and more) and HackWimbledon bits and crosspostings from the day job at Compose and… well, we’ll see.

I’ll be posting some of my regular items I do elsewhere here from now on and…. one thing I write every Friday us Compose’s Little Bits. Here’s what’s in the latest: Postgres-BDR goes 1.0, MongoDB updates the stable and development branches, a look at Hexastores, Sophia’s key/value storage gets rows, Go goes 1.7, PowerShell goes open source, Github makes page publishing easier, GnuPG gets fixed randomness, Apple talks Black Hat and the world of Wikipedia in a Wikiverse.

Yes, it has been quiet here. Things have been busy elsewhere and I’m in the process of reworking what and how I’ll be populating Codescaling. I’m currently leaning to talking more about the scaled down world, small systems and working with them. But its up in the air. So, reader, what do you want? This article was imported from the original CodeScaling blog

This article was imported from the original CodeScaling blog

It’s not really a surprise, but after just over six months since the “forking” of both Node.js and Docker, the two different projects have ended up back in some sort of alignment. For Node.js, it was the reunification with io.js under the Node.js Foundation, which was officially launched under the Linux Foundation’s umbrella. The Node.js and io.js technical development is now driven by a technical committee and hopefully this will all work out well for all.