... and another thing ...

"Journey Onward: the Apple 2 and me" at EveryWorld 2020

Following up on the "Programming Beyond Text Files" with some further points ...

"Decoding: Programming beyond text files" at PyCOnline AU 2020

Lilygo were kind enough to send me some samples of their new watches: well, wrist-mounted computers, really.

Playing Ultima IV on the Apple 2 was probably what got me into computers ... well, maybe not so much playing as where it led ...

Back in 2017, Charlotte and I attended Nodebots day, and built a robot, and I never got around to writing about it ...

Spreadsheets were arguably the first Killer App for personal computers, a tabular ledger but also a kind of visual dataflow language.

Encoding cryptographic keys as passphrases, but easier to spell

a very neat little ARM / GPU single board computer which works with Linux and CUDA.

porting WAMR to run WebAssembly on an $5 ESP32 CPU

Apparently I have a little too much time on my hands and maybe a little too much enthusiasm for the holiday season

Where am I?

Why is it that every case is an exception to a rule?

Never send a human to do a machine's job

An attempt to implement the Gigatron TTL Microcomputer on an FPGA, in Migen.

Having trouble with /dev/ttyACM* devices?

Some hardware on my workbench ...

Espressif sent me this nifty "ESP32 Meshkit Button" to play with, let's have a look ...

My Python 3 conference T-shirt ...

FuPy is a port of MicroPython which runs inside an FPGA.

I headed to PyCon 2018 in Sydney for lots of Pythonic goodness, and then back home for Compose Melbourne, a newish FP conference.

This site is now on Github Pages.

Editing an AST in the browser

What if there were no functions?

Are programs really text files?

Improving the out-of-box experience for MicroPython using WebUSB

Talking MicroPython at LinuxConf in Sydney!

A build log for the "Rocket Surgery" project at BuzzConf 2017

IoT Networks without IP?

PyCon 2017 in Melbourne!

Want to sprint on MicroPython?

Conferencing continues in 2017 ...

I've been doing a lot of work on MicroPython ESP32 lately ...

a modest proposal for better javascript: like "use strict" but purer.

I've been to LinuxConf before and I've been to Hobart before but this time I'm going to LinuxConf in Hobart, for the Open Hardware Miniconf

Why can't I just ping this widget?

Unicode?

some utility programs to copy and mount MicroPython filesystems from your computer

I did roughly the same talk again for IoT Aus

So far in 2016 I've been to LinuxConf, PyConAU and Compose, and if it hadn't been the same weekend as PyCon I'd have gone to DDD as well.

Flobot gets a rewrite into MicroPython, a new hardware platform and a lot more discussion ...

PyCon 2016 in Melbourne ...

IP-layer load balancing without an actual load balancer, by abusing (well, extending) ARP.

Trying to better understand the problems of the IoT by actually listening to its detractors.

So some ludicrous proportion of SQL these days is generated by one ORM or another.

A brief and not necessarily totally accurate history of diff3

Improving on the design of the NodeMCU modules ...

A project to create mini robots for education purposes

Bringing databases into the Blue-Green Deployment process by using CQRS and idempotent work queues.