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Open Source developer. Spending most of my time on http://rclone.org at the moment. When the police come to get me I'm listening to dance music. Radio Amateur M5NCW
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Here is a nice article about rclone in How to Geek www.howtogeek.com/what-is-rclo...

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Rclone v1.69.0 has been released! Highlights: • New providers: ICloud Drive, Cloudinary, Outscale, Selectel • Symlink support for mount • Many more features, fixes and doc updates! Announcement: forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-v1-...

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

I was playing with the newly released ghostty terminal and I read it could plot inline images so I wrote termbrot to play with the feature. github.com/ncw/termbrot It renders the image as it is created which added a bit of complication. With mouse control it came out very nicely.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Was wondering how many millilitres in a cup... thanks Google!

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Just looking through my projects for 2024: Started: 15 Completed: 5 I award myself C- could try harder :-( Completed: 2 software, 3 electronics Unfinished: 4 software, 1 electronics, 3 blogs and 1 maths As ever, starting new projects is always more fun than finishing old ones... You?

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

I was trying to work out where my printer ink had got to and got this message from Amazon which I've never seen before! Attempting to track the package on the Royal Mail website doesn't work and I see using the developer tools that their API is giving 429 Too Busy errors :-(

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Just been trying to work out why the rclone binary has grown so much. Been using a really neat graphical tool to analyse the binary size: github.com/Zxilly/go-si... The main culprit seems to be the AWS SDK which is taking 7.5MB of binary space just for s3! Nearly all other backends are under 1MB

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

I bought a Pimoroni Pico Lipo to run the Mancala Machine as it has USB-C, can charge a Lipo cell, is RP2040 & #tinygo support. However it doesn't have any mounting holes unlike the Pico. Anyone have any ideas how to mount it? Or is it Velcro stick on tape again! shop.pimoroni.com/products/pim...

submitted 77 days ago • 2 comments

I learnt something interesting today. If you set `go 1.21` in your go.mod then even though you are compiling with go1.23 it does not apply the for loop scope fix: go.dev/blog/loopvar... I was under the mistaken impression that it did and wasted a couple of hours before the aha, moment came! #golang

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I'm looking forward to this in Go 1.24 to banish all those flakey time based tests. #golang danp.net/posts/syncte...

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

Mancala Machine box completed. I ordered the 3 acrylic sheets pre cut then drilled lots of holes in them. This was a bit nerve wracking but turned out ok. Nice to see what it is going to look like and validate the construction method (not my strong point!). Electronic wiring next.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Proof of concept neopixel ring driven by a RP2040-Zero using a TinyGo program. It seems quite happy running at 3.3V which will make battery powering it easy.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

I was going through some of my Dad's stuff to merge his electronics components with mine and I found his resistor storage system 😆 So very practical and absolutely typical of the man - it made me laugh - I hope it does you too.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

I'm building a gadget. There will be a RP2040 in charge running a tinygo program. Each neopixel ring will have a button in the center. Can anyone guess what it is?

submitted 88 days ago • 3 comments