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Three years ago I wrote mastoWelcomer, a python script to semi-automate the process of approving new accounts on mastodon.radio.

Note: I started this post in March 2026, and didn't do much with it until late May.

Let me tell you a story of storage and suffering (and also some notes for future self) Several years ago I bought a buffalo NAS, it has/had 4×2TB drives in it.

I've posted about the Charge before, in 2022, when I'd had it a few months and done 160km on it.

On / In my house I have a 4.4kW (peak) solar array (facing West), a 3.6kW (peak) inverter, and a 9.6kWh battery for storage.

The Amateur Radio Inclusivity Pledge is great!

flohmarkt is "A decentral federated small advertisement platform", think classified ads like eBay used to be. midzer asked for help checking the accessibility.

Fuck twitter, anyway I've just deleted every tweet I posted since I joined in 2008 before deleting my accounts.

My long suffering and much used (and abused) MacBook Pro 13" (retina) from 2013 finally gave up recently.

I've often got multiple things plugged into my computer, for example a USB to serial cable for the TNC and a different USB to serial cable for CAT control of my HF radio.

The Dell DA-2 is a power supply for, I don't actually know.

I got solar panels, and a battery, and a heat pump!

Well, effectively infinite anyway.

I'll admit this is a bad a title, but there isn't a snappy way to describe this.

The Anycubic Vyper is a pretty good 3d printer, in my experience of only ever using two 3d printers.

I've had this bike for a few months and covered around 160km (100 miles) so thought I'd share some thoughts.

It's been around a month since my "Thoughts on the TwitterMigration" post and things seem to have calmed down again, so I thought I'd take some time to pull together some thoughts and numbers for you all.

It's been about a week since "The Bird Site" was purchased, lots has been written about that, and lots has been written about Mastodon, but I've not spotted much about the impact of the influx on servers like mastodon.radio, so here are some thoughts.

I have a few project ideas currently pending parts, budget, time, etc. and I wanted to write some of them down so they can get out of my head!

Page Content Page Content Background Proof of concept Current version The Code Rules Canary?

A while ago I spotted some "Smart" 4-way power plugs "Reduced to Clear" in Tesco from £30 to £7.50 - so I bought two.

I've wanted to build a keyboard for ages now, and the Penkesu computer needs a keyboard, so my first forray into the custom keyboard world was to build a koda keyboard by odd-rocket Sourcing components PCB I needed to get PCB(s) made, which isn't something

I'm currently babysitting a 3d printer, it's a "GEETech i3 Pro C" - apparently.

Who wants a smart home that stops working if the internet is down, or the OEM goes bust, or wants to charge you extra, or ...

Note: This is not a full write-up of my solar power APRS radio, I will do that one day, honest!

Today I made the source of Complex 19 available, so I thought it would be a good time to write a little bit about Complex 19 itself, and why it took me so long to release the code.

mastodon.radio has an XMPP server, which is mostly there because I wanted to see if I could.

eQSL is a cool idea, I have some reservations about it (most useful features are paid for, control over cards is limited, card size is small, the site is clunky) but it provides all the thrill of QSL cards without the delay ... or something.

I couldn't resist the raspberry pi pico any longer, and I also got a pico display to do with it.

prefers-color-scheme is the magic sauce to get CSS to care about the user's preferred colour scheme - aka DARK MODE.

'cos I can't document this in just one toot... #!

Ok, I have to hold my hands up here.

I've been playing with the Gopher Protocol and the Gemini Protocol and thought it would be interesting to make some things accessible over Gopher.

What is it?

I don't have any analytics on this site, but it would still be nice to know if anyone is looking... and something reminded me of the hit counters we used to have back on the old web.

In part one I knocked up a thing to let me know when various things in my house needed updating.

It's an obvious problem to me that I have too many computers, and keeping on top of which have been updated recently is... not simple.

Recently I discovered some spare parts from past projects, and ended up with this, a battery powered Raspberry Pi Zero W.

Who doesn't want to post messages to a social network using APRS?

For a while I've used Traccar for friendly stalking of things, and it works well.

A note from the future that goes at the start I started working on this nearly two month ago, and I've not had time to get any further with it.

Recently I managed to have some success with FT8, which was great!

I get bored playing games like Snakes and Ladders, there is no skill, just luck with a die.

A little while ago SP6MR pointed out that Pi-Star now supports POCSAG, a pager standard.

In September 2019 I gave at talk at The Cheltenham Amateur Radio Association about APRS.

It's been nearly a year since I last posted on this blog.

This Opinion Piece was written for the October Edition of "CARA News" (the Cheltenham Amateur Radio Association's newsletter), but I wanted to share it more widelly, and see what people make of it.

When I first visited a hackspace I was introduced to the rules, most of which I have since forgotten, but rule 0 stuck with me.

After deciding that 7+kg handing off one arm wasn't ideal, I've invested in a sturdy rucksack.

Continuing my attempts to get out and about operating radio (and points) I've been up my local "big hill" and activated Cleeve Hill.