Mountain Of Code

I believe 'random' is a concept humans have invented to make it easy to deal with observations which have no apparent cause.

People are very much creatures of habit, we feel comfortable doing the same type of thing in the same type of way.

The 512KB Club is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet The 512KB Club site has a leaderboard of sites from smallest to largest, all below 512KB in size.

There is an almost infinite sea of posts and videos on tools, packages, updates, vulnerabilities, frameworks, ideas, etc. out there, and I strongly believe that keeping an eye over what's new is beneficial.

I've built a few solar-powered projects over the last couple of years, primarily remote sensing, an ESP 32, battery and solar panel.

I've had a small 'tabletop' dishwasher for a couple of years now, I would have a full size one, but there just isn't space.

I really like unix pipes, they are easy to intuit.

There are plenty of micro frameworks and packages which enable routing of HTTP requests to controllers.

I recently came across Kagi Small Web after I started using Kagi as my primary search engine.

I make heavy use of Ctrl + R in my terminal, it allows me to quickly search for previously run commands.

php -S localhost:8008 Simple, easy to remember, always within reach ❤️ PHPs built-in dev server is great, is it going to compare against the likes of Apache and nginx?

I recently started running again, always loved it but never really found the time to until recently.

Duckweed is commonly seen as a problematic weed in aquariums, ponds and waterways the world over because it can take over and create a monoculture.

Did you know you can customise the user@host:/path $ prompt which appears in your terminal?

I've had an aquarium for a few years now, and it's been an endless source of joy.

Ever since I've been on the modern internet I've always felt like I could be contributing, digitally that is.

I get lots of ideas, too many ideas.

On the 29th of May 2025 there was a partial solar eclipse, I learned it was happening about 40 minutes before it began.

I have subscribed to various YouTube channels over the years and originally had a YouTube account to track them all.

A couple of months ago I stumbled across The April Cools Club.

I have been re-building my YouTube video aggregator recently.

I wondered if there was a way to get all the internal functions in PHP.

Because why not celebrate mathematical constants that happen to align with our arbitrary date system :D As usual Matt Parker is doing a very novel calculation of Pi This is just the latest in a long list of ridiculous ways to calculate Pi.

Many years ago me and my dad set out to try and build a cloud chamber, there were a number of guides, videos and Instructables online.

I have run a Folding@Home client for over 15 years.

Some notes on where email security DNS records are kept. dig example.org TXT #SPF dig _dmarc.example.org TXT #DMARC dig {SELECTOR}.

I recently came across the video "Quicksort Algorithm in Five Lines of Code" from the excellent Computerphile channel, thoroughly recommend the channel by the way.

After a recent over-ordering of fish I started wondering if there was a technical solution to keeping an inventory of what's currently in the freezer.

A simple jig for drawing parallel lines which are equidistant. hull() { cube([2.5, 200, 6]); translate([0,110,40]) rotate([0,90,0]) cylinder(d=40, h=1); } !

There have been a number of times when I have visited a URL for an RSS feed, or other text based content, only to have the browser offer to download it for me when what I wanted was to view the textual content.

I have built a couple of internal APIs for work, they were super simple, less than 3 endpoints.

Most of the parts I design and print need to fit with an existing thing, be that a RaspberryPi or another 3D printed part.

I wanted to be able to add charts to my posts, previously I'd just included an image but I thought I could do better using inline SVGs.

In my last post on OpenSCAD I included some example code but the tempest/highlight package I use for code highlighting didn't support OpenSCAD code.

When I first got a 3D printer I was excited about being able to create all kinds of custom parts for my projects.

When I find a new blog I will scroll through the previous posts to see if they write about the kinds of things that interests me, so I know whether to subscribe or not, however a not-insignificant number of the sites show the full text of posts on the ind…

A demo of an old project.

Part of the reason there I post so infrequently is that it's such a PITA to publish anything to.

I bought a Pinecil after becoming increasingly frustrated with my ageing soldering iron.

I have what some people would refer to as a high-tech aquarium.

This is a simple part adapts a standard UK hanging bulb to support a spherical lamp shade.

The canister filter I bought for my aquarium came with plastic U-bends which directed the flow over the lip of the glass.

This was my first commercial project.

This model funnels the air flow of a 60 mm computer fan through a 40x90 mm heat sink.

Lanyard style badge holder.

An angled male-female pipe coupler.

A rainwater downpipe interceptor which diverts into a water butt until it is full and then overflows into the drain.

This is one of my more 'creative' designs, it's a canopy for the Beta FPV HX115.

This is a boss which forms an in-place tee on a 110 mm pipe to a 70 mm pipe.