Kindle hacking and clocking…
There’s a super little Instructable on how to make a Literary clock using a Kindle. Well, I happened to have an old school original Kindle 3 about and dived it. Some observations…. The jailbreaking...
View ArticleElsewhere: NewsBits
Here’s my regular Friday database and developer news from Compose: • PostgreSQL stable updates all round. • And there’s a new PostgreSQL 11 beta. • How well does PostgreSQL work with a GPU? • Redis...
View ArticleElsewhere: NewsBits for August 24th….
As is my Friday wont, I wrote up NewsBits for Compose but then things move fast… since that was published Go 1.11 has landed… Really looking forward to using that in anger (good anger, not “damn...
View ArticleElsewhere – NewsBits (end of August Edition)
In the most recent NewsBits (NewsBits at Compose.com’s Articles) there’s some minor DB and driver updating, a DB that branches like git, a fresh Vault, what happens to SSDs when they meet database...
View ArticleElsewhere: NewsBits – Redis 5 RC 5
I’ve been doing my usual Friday news gathering for the day job and that means here is todays NewsBits…. Here’s what’s in it: Redis 5.0 gets a new release candidate and controversy. Updates for older...
View ArticleElsewhere: NewsBits on Java 11
As is my way, I’ve been writing elsewhere for a living among other things and here’s the latest NewsBits I gathered up…. Java11 arrives with long term support and warnings.Refactoring .then() added to...
View ArticleAll change… to MongoDB
If you follow me on Twitter, then you’ll know that I’m in the process of leaving IBM who acquired Compose (who were MongoHQ) some years back. It was a super-fun ride, but things change and after a...
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Fireworks, like a…
So in the background, I’ve been playing around with digital fireworks on various LED displays, mostly on the Raspberry Pi Zero with PS3 controllers and well that was going on with various levels of...
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Levelling the Word Clock
Cyntech do a word clock – an 8×8 array of neopixels, a set of acrylics to make a box and stencils for the words and space to fit in a pi zero or pi 2/3 inside. It’s been built here for a while and...
View ArticleRelocating….
I’m consolidating the code* sites and that means that there will, all going well, be no new posts here. Instead, I’m breaking in a new site at codepope.dev. There’s already a post up (with code) about...
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