As someone with many, many neurological conditions and also many many regular pills to take for those conditions, one of the problems I encounter regularly is not being sure whether or not I’ve actually taken my pills today. Obviously just slamming down more of them isn’t really an option, but my memory really isn’t up […]
This post is going to be a bit different than my usual fare in that some of it will be written by an AI (so much like 90% of the web these days!). In fact, I started out this morning wanting to know more about semantic search and the use of large language models to […]
Last week the ‘pick a hobby’ part of my brain returned to 3d printing. I’ve had a 3d printer for about 6 years now and every few months I’ll decide I want to use it to print…something. So I’ll fire it up, then realise that actually it would be so much better with some additional […]
This post is a little different than my usual tech nonsense. It’s an aggregation of a few posts I’ve made on various social media about the way my brain works. Specifically SDAM and Aphantasia and their impact on my life. This all started a few years ago when I read this post by mozilla co-founder […]
I’ve had a 3d Printer for several years now, it was originally a creality CR10s which I bought way back in 2018ish. Since then I’ve upgraded (or at least changed it) in various ways. I added bracing rods to the front to add rigidity to the frame. I added closed loop driver boards to cut […]
in 2021 I built a DIY Rack in my cellar (pt1, pt2, pt3). The last update on that is from a couple of years ago now, and looking back through the site archives I realise I never posted where that Journey ended…… At the end of 2021 I moved house. I knew that I wouldn’t […]
As we saw in part 1, I am something of an idiot. Also, I like building stuff. Usually that stuff is software or technological gubbins, but I do like to create abominations of wood and screws sometimes. And so, to the rack. We left part one with me pondering the feasibility of building a high […]
In my previous post, I explored the idea of introducing software development principles to the world of infrastructure, specifically the translation of the ‘MVC’ design pattern to logically divide infrastructure into 3 distinct layers. Today I’m going to take a look at each of these layers in more depth, and examine how they fit together and […]
Finally got round to releasing my (very rough / early) raspberry pi interface for minecraft on gitbhub. It’s still in a pre-pre-pre-alpha state, it’s just the sourcecode (although it runs in the development environment fine) so feel free to do what you want with it. You can see what picraft is / what you can […]
I recently (well, a few months ago) started working for online retail company prettylittlething.com. Since then I’ve been getting back into the Magento way of doing things (along with managing their IT infrastructure… but that’s a whole other set of posts) and decided I might as well publish some of the minor tips and bits […]