The Beer'o'Meter project
As some of you may know, I have been working on a small hardware project called
the Beer'o'Meter whose purpose is to allow us to extend Ye Olde Vic's beer
board to indicate the approximate fullness of…
Building an Oscilloscope
I recently ordered some PCBs from Elecrow for the Vic's beer-measurement
system I've been designing with Rob. While on the site, I noticed that they
have a single-channel digital oscilloscope kit bas…
A haiku about Haiku
I know I don't mention a season, and I'm a few hours late for hallowe'en, but
here's a haiku about Haiku:
A death, once again,
The master sighs, and fixes,
It rises up, undead.
Orchestration, a cry for help
Over the past few years, a plethora of orchestration frameworks have been
exploding onto the scene. Many have been around for quite a while but not all
have the same sort of community behind them. F…
Be careful what you ask for
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In defence of curl | sudo bash -
Long ago, in days of yore, we assumed that any software worth having would be
packaged by the operating system we used. Debian with its enormous pile of
software (over 20,000 sources last time I look…
Sometimes recruiters really miss the point...
I get quite a bit of recruitment spam, especially via my LinkedIn profile,
but today's Twitter-madness (recruiter scraped my twitter and then contacted
me) really took the biscuit. I include my respo…
Kimchi Trial 1 - Part 3 - Kimchiguk
Earlier this week I allowed some of my colleagues at work to try the Kimchi and
one of them (James) liked it enough to ask for a tub of it just for himself.
Being a lovely person I obliged.
My darling…
Kimchi Trial 1 - Part 2
Last night we tried the small amount of 'fresh kimchi' from my
epic kimchi making trial.
I marinaded some beef strips in a blended paste of onion, garlic, ginger, and
sesame oil for a few hours before…