Another collection of braingunk and technolint
I’ve been applying to jobs for a few months now and I’m beginning to wonder whether AI has eaten them all. Not only the jobs but the companies I’m applying to as well. Being reasonably-well organised, I started keeping track of my applications and their states from day one. I should have used the CRM … Continue reading "My Job Application Journey" The post My Job Application Journey first appeared…
So… I’m a geek. No hiding from it. Gone are the days when being a geek mostly meant having the shit beaten out of you in the playground. These days geeks rule the world. So, I’m a geek. I love playing with computers. I love playing with radio. I love playing with electronics. I’m a … Continue reading "Why do I run a homelab?" The post Why do I run a homelab? first appeared on psyphi.net blog .
I’ve been excited by e-ink displays for a long while. I leapt on the original, gorgeous reMarkable tablet as soon as it came out and have been a regular user and advocate ever since. I would dearly love to have one or two of these enormous 42″ e-ink art poster displays on the wall, but … Continue reading "A photo/calendar frame with the Inky Impression 7.3″" The post A photo/calendar frame with…
In previous episodes of the Atari 520STFM refurbishment it was cleaned and recapped. This instalment sees installation of a replacement floppy drive. The GOTEK, sometimes known as FlashFloppy (really the name of the firmware it runs) is a drop-in replacement for a 3.5″ floppy disk drive which has several benefits: The downsides are that you … Continue reading "Fitting the GOTEK FlashFloppy" The…
In part three of my ongoing nostalgiathon refurbishing an Atari STFM it’s time to clean up the keyboard and case. Step one is to remove the keyboard from the chassis – very simple to remove the seven short screws from underneath to release the top-side of the case. The keyboard floats on the shielding and … Continue reading "Atari STFM520 keyboard & case refurbishing" The post Atari STFM520…
In the unlikely event you read my earlier post on recapping the Atari STFM power supply, you’ll know I recently acquired a good example of a mid-late revision Atari 520STFM. Now its PSU has been recapped and cleaned up, it’s time to have a crack at upgrading it from half a megabyte of RAM to … Continue reading "Installing the Exxos 4MB RAM Atari STFM expansion" The post Installing the Exxos 4MB…
I recently acquired a classic 16bit machine from my childhood in the form of a Motorola 68000-powered Atari 520STFM. Whilst it’s a later motherboard revision – C103253 REV.1 – it’s still a low-spec model with only 512MB RAM. The “F” in STFM is for the included 3.5″ floppy disk drive with the “M” being for … Continue reading "Installing the Exxos Atari ST PSU recap kit" The post Installing the…
Since I first played around with my first ADC on the BBC Micro in the early ’90s, I’ve always had a bit of a thing for data logging of one sort or another – when building data visualisations or just playing around with datasets it’s usually more fun working with data you’ve collected yourself. So … Continue reading "That’s not my weather station…! Exploring 433MHz" The post That’s not my weather…
Do you, like me, develop desktop applications for MacOSX? Do you, like me, do it on Linux because it makes for a much cheaper and easier to manage gitlab CI/CD build farm? Do you still sign your apps using a MacOSX machine, or worse (yes, like me), not sign them at all, leaving ugly popups … Continue reading "Signing MacOSX apps with Linux" The post Signing MacOSX apps with Linux first appeared on…
At work, I have a CLI tool I’ve been working on. It talks to the web and is used by customers all over the planet, some of them on networks with tighter restrictions than my own. Often those customers have an HTTP proxy of some sort and that means the CLI application needs to negotiate … Continue reading "Proxy testing with IP Namespaces and GitLab CI/CD" The post Proxy testing with IP Namespaces…