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Making Catchup: Pi A+, Beagle X15, 68K prototyped and cheap Wifi hacking
Raspberry Pi Model A+ breaks cover: It seems that there’s been a leak on the Pi A+, the compacted version of the Pi less Ethernet, as its being reported. The cut-down Pi now has microSD and a 40 pin...
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Developer Catchup: Go libraries, easy Charts, Tumblr frameworks, Zsh secrets...
Facebook Go: When you develop a lot in Go, you make a lot of libraries and tools in Go. Facebook must be doing plenty because their new Facebook Go repository is full of code, much of it useful...
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Forking brilliant – Node/IO.js and Docker/Rocket
What’s up with Node: So there’s been a fork in Node.js land with the appearance of IO.js. A group of core contributing developers have lost patience with Joyent, the developmental home of Node.js, and...
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A Codescaling New Year
For 2015, I thought I’d shake up the Codescaling site and see if I could get a bit more, well, life into things – catchups have become a chore so I’m going to try to shorten the distance between brain...
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Padded post – Etherpad 1.5, Hack the Hackpad
Collaborative editors are one of the mainstays of remote working… and they tend to have pad in the name. Just updated is Etherpad, in the form of Etherpad 1.5. This is a mostly bug fix and performance...
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OS X’s Hypervisor, Snabbt JS animation and Nim
Did you know Mac OS X 10.10 had a hypervisor framework? No, me neither, but it does and that means you can do things with hypervisors without the need for kernel extensions and stuff. Pagetable.com...
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Raspberry Pi B+ gets its Grove on
Raspberry Pi’s are great little Linux devices but they have plenty of limitations when it comes to comes to wiring up to the analog world or just behaving like a micro-controller. There’s been various...
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ESP8266 – little board, lotta Wi-Fi
An ESPtoy (the ESP8266 is the little blue board) from RaysHobby.netLots going on with the intriguing ESP8266 board. Coming out of China with no english documentation, this tiny board has the brains to...
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Snippets: Io.js, FreeBSD in the Cloud and 6502 Basic
Io.js 1.0 beta lands Io.js is the spork of Node.js which is trying to put features the developers think have languished too long in development hell into a production codebase. We talked about it at...
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Making Catchup: 6502 home computer, Trinket Mouse, Beaglebone IO, Manga...
And it’s another catchup as the world whizzes by… Cool 6502 Builds: Dirk Grappendorf has built a lovely looking 6502 based microcomputer but more importantly takes you step by step through the entire...
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Raspberry Pi2 – Already?
It seems like less than a year ago when Eben Upton told Ars Technica that the Raspberry Pi Foundation was “a year or two away from thinking about” building new hardware. In less than a year, we’ve had...
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Developer Catchup: New Node, Profanity, Oh-My-Git, Knightmares, Bad Docs and...
Node.js 0.12 has arrived with many long gestating changes now available. Io.js has a lot of these in already and a more up to date V8 engine for JavaScript, but if you’re sticking with Node.js...
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Docker 1.5 and Node.js Foundations
Back in December we saw two community splits, one in the Docker community and one in the Node.js community. It’s time to look back at both those splits. Docker 1.5 just landed with IPV6 support, read...
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Snippets – JavaScript, Node, Git, HTTP2 and Regexps
In this Snippets, 6to5 becomes Babel, Node.js 0.12 on Pi, Git 2.3, HTTP2 explained and regular expressions from chained methods. 6to5 becomes Babel – As ES6, the next generation JavaScript, starts...
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Numberwang with Linux 4.0-RC1
It’s kind of hard to remember when Linux last had a version upheavel like the first release candidate of Linux 4.0…. sorry, no I tell a lie, it was 22 July 2011 when Linus finally pulled the handle on...
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Snippets: gRPC, iPython, LLVM, Pi Trees and Juice,
gRPC: Google, doing it’s whomp-here’s-a-“standard” thing, has just announced an open sourced remote procedure call framework called gRPC. With libraries for seven languages (C, C++, Java, Node.js,...
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Disque, Tiny JavaScript, ESP8266 Notes, Tails, GCC5 and Go: Developer Catchup
Disque: Antirez ,the man behind the splendid Redis in-memory key/value store has been working away on a new message broker called Disque. He’s not released it as yet, but he is giving status updates...
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Developer Catchup – Redis 3.0.0, ES5to6, Atom Pairs, Rust and Coherent
Redis 3.0.0: Antirez (Salvatore Sanfillippo) brought us Redis 3.0.0 on April 1st (and I salute him for ignoring the worst day on the Internet by doing real things). The big thing with 3.0 is...
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Making Catchup: Node 0.10.6, Pi Power, Arduino IDE and adapting ESP8266s
Node-RED 0.10.6: Nick O’Leary has announced Node-RED 0.10.6 with various changes to the editor, nodes and API. If you don’t know Node-RED, it’s a rather graphically splendid way of wiring the internet...
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Arduino IDE now boarding for all
The Arduino IDE is heading into a rather neat consolidation of the numerous Arduino inspired boards out there. The introduction of a mechanism, in version 1.6.2, to allow people to plug their boards...
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