There is a growing interest in Zephyr RTOS within the embedded community. Unlike Arduino or ESP-IDF, Zephyr gives you a real hardware abstraction layer that lets you write firmware once and compile…

Step 9 - But what about Java This is the final step, adding a Java generator - each step adds or improves a small feature, this text is just highlighting a few details along the way, the best way to…

Our pick of new history books for May. From the Vikings to the Weimar Republic, the Georgian Dining Room to Winston Churchill.

From the conclusion of Anthropic’s article summarizing their own research into AI-assistance and skill formation: Our results suggest that incorporating AI aggressively into the workplace,…

Every meal planning app treats cooking as the hard problem and shopping as a logistics detail. They have it backwards. Cooking is mostly solved. Shopping is the last mile.

A talk by Michael Crichton given at the International Leadership Forum in La Jolla, California, April 26, 2002.

A WooCommerce site with an ERP integration in progress. The external developer reported a mixed encoding in the database: latin1, utf8mb3, and utf8mb4. ALTER TABLE looked like the right move. But it…

You might have also wondered why, especially over the last few years, it has become increasingly rare to read about truly interesting malware and its in-depth analysis. If you’ve been in…

Photo by Mike Smith on Unsplash The fortnight that’s just ended started with one of the smallest possible problems: commandspace, “screenlock”, return, and the wrong version of…

I have been assessing InnovateUK and similar government agency funding competitions since 2011. To date, I have reviewed: – 140 Competitions. – 1,395 Applications. – In excess of…

I wonder why too much love can be off-putting. Is it a boundary thing? It feels like a boundary thing when I'm the one who feels that way about someone else's boundless love. That said, I don't want…

Prosperity rests not on intentions, but on foundations. In Germany’s case, those foundations were historically not only institutional and industrial, but energetic: the stable supply of power that…

There's a trend I have noticed when folks try sell software, their perception of how hard it was to build the software influences their comfort in setting a price. More difficult to build, more…

I like the Internet. I am old enough to remember the pre-Internet era and despite the younger generations pining for those simpler days, I was there. Paper maps were absolutely horrible, just you and…

I’ve been working on a PC Engine emulator (aka TurboGrafx-16) after getting the bug to start looking at a new system, and I’ve found it to be pretty interesting hardware-wise. Originally…

[MC Lothlorien, Commodore 64] It has been some time since we talked about MC Lothlorien, one of the oldest and most prolific British wargame companies.…

The boats they race in are thirty-five-year-old Catalina 37s. Weighing in at around 7 tonnes, with dacron sails and symmetrical kites. They have a maximum speed of around 7 knots. The event is living…

“coding is a solved problem”

I love this short open-access paper from danah boyd where she suggests shifting the term we use to describe social media.

I'm nearly finished curating my family history materials and finding safe new homes for artifacts that don't have a close, direct connection to my family. This is Part 2 of the saga of letters and…

There are local elections being held across the UK today. Voters in Scotland and Wales will elect representatives to their respective national parliaments, while in England the voting is for local…

In this public lecture (in Dutch), Jasper de Groot takes you into the surprising and often hidden world of scent.

Rock and (beef and onion) Roll My latest West Midlands History Podcast is not really suitable for going on a fact-finding walk for. It concerns the improvement in household living in the Black…

Untying the knots holding back Iraq's fintech ecosystem.

SPECIMEN #000: Custos corruptus (The Corrupt Guardian: How the World's Largest Social Network Profits from the Grifts It Claims to Police) Classification: Attention Merchant / Grift Enabler /…

Posted on: Logbook, Misc.Tagline: Pages from my logbook.Yesterday morning I watched a puddle drying up, taken by force by the sun's rays. A "necessary" violence to make room for the…

Notes CSS CSS in Hiccup CSS with garden

“Scripting languages are designed for gluing”, wrote John Ousterhout, the creator of Tcl, in 1998.1 What Ousterhout had in mind was writing an application in a scripting language and…

Omniscient POV might be resurging, thanks to some recent bestsellers. To use it well, remember three C’s: clarity, consistency, and control.

I woke up at 7AM. I have to on WFO days, if I want to beat the traffic. Woke up. Checked Slack. Was automatically logged out of Slack. And I knew. Shit. Shit shit shit shit. Opened email. "Action…

Recently at work (on my last day), I dealt with a SQL query that got pretty complex because of new features making the business logic increasingly involved. The query ended up quite lengthy, but it…

A major atmospheric change is about to start, as the latest oceanic data confirms the 2026 El Niño is intensifying below the ocean surface. New … The post Atmospheric Code Red: 2026 Super El…

Friend of the newsletter Sam Jeffers from WhoTargetsMe has, for his sins, been monitoring the online campaign ahead of today's local elections in Britain. Reform has taken a fundamentally…

On the road, as it were, right now, so this report will be updated with the necessaries when possible. Highlights of the month: Published a link to Photographs on the main site Seedlings still having…

Everyone needs a tracking URL shortener. Why tracking? I want to know if they opened my email and clicked the link. Why shortener? I want them to know what the link is about. For example,…

The tide has turned. The seasons have shifted. The dandelions have popped. The penny has dropped. It is time. So the Beast has been released. I say Beast but it’s really Beast II, Son of the…

Low-code and AI are now giving you the opportunity to adapt your chatbots to better fit the profile of your different users

Merch hasn’t died – it’s just taken a darker turn.

The new search engine, introduced in beorg 3.39.0, gives you a much more expressive syntax for finding what you need. Not only is it a more powerful syntax, but beorg now gives you the results almost…

You’ll go down to the basement after you’re done up here, the Director says in our language. To […]

This month featuring: a wodge of 80s nostalgia, a trip to Manchester to see one of my very favourites, and a last minute chance to see one of the rarest shows in town. Princess Julia, Electric…

  Most CFOs treat lead time as an operations problem. I did too, until I started noticing what it was quietly doing to our working capital, our headcount, and our margin. It turns out flow…

See below for an explanation of this image. Will Powers work on Post-Finasteride Syndromes (PFS) has generated a lot of interest. It would be easy to misread the responses. This post asks people with…

In a previous article , I explored building nested forms with Stimulus. But what about when you need to edit existing questions, remove ones you no longer need or reorganize them? Let’s extend that…

The Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC) document sitting in your governance folder is one of the most useful tools in the business. Most orgs never use it that way. They treat it as a compliance box…

Lalela, the LO-Def Film Factory and GaudiLabs teamed up to co-run a workshop where participants learned how to build their own solar-powered devices, and learners were invited to think beyond solar

Way back when streaming services did not exist, me and my family watched movies by renting them out in a Video City shop in town 1 . I’m too young for VHS and just the right age for Blu-Ray and…

We are excited to announce the release of The qPocketPCR; an ultra-compact, open-source Real-Time PCR thermal cycler designed for portability, accessibility, and versatility. About the size of a…