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 […]
Pretty big update today, I’ve finally (after like…a weeks worth of struggling) managed to get modular building working. This means you can construct ‘modules’ (ie: parts of ships), export them, then import tham and attach them to other ships. Here’s how it works: I use the ‘White inverted corner block’ as an attachment point (this […]
Quick bugfix, added warning about quick load stability Download from github