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July 2026
Pupdate The whole of July has been hot and sunny (more on that later), so quite often the boys have been having an early morning walk in the shade of the woods before it gets too hot. The apple tree seems particularly bountiful this year, so they’ve both been enjoying the windfalls (particularly Milo). Bath […]
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Brewster’s Trillions
TL;DR The AI infrastructure bubble has reached a point where companies just can’t actually spent all the money they might (notionally) have allocated. There might be money on a balance sheet somewhere, but good luck exchanging it for actual GPUs, or HVAC, or HVAC installers, or… When the sums of money get large enough it […]
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TL;DR nFPM makes it very easy to put your binaries into a Debian .deb or RedHat Package Manager .rpm file. Background We’ve been using full stack Dart and Flutter at Atsign since the dawn of the company in 2019, so when NoPorts came along we released the binaries in tarballs (or zip files) from GitHub […]
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Tags: APT, cross compiling, Dart, deb, GitHub Actions, GoReleaser, help2man, lint, lintian, man, nFPM, QEMU, rpm, yum
TL;DR Our online discourse is the victim of industrial scale pollution, and the incentives are being aligned in the wrong direction. Rather than polluters being penalised there’s now an entire industry that’s paid to pollute. Filter Failure at the Outrage Factory is no longer just the work of ‘amateur’ fringe trolls and state sponsored propaganda; […]
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GL.iNet MT-6000 Flint2 Review
TL;DR The Flint 2 seems to be a pretty awesome router. It was a little fiddly to set up my (quite complex) existing VLANs and wireless networks onto it, but it’s been working without a hitch since then :) Why? I’ve had a Draytek 2866ax router paired with an AP960C access point for about 18m[1]. […]
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Tags: Access Point, AI, Flint 2, Flint2, GL.iNet, MT-6000, OpenWRT, review, SSID, VLAN, wifi
Today’s dose of doxorubicin marks the end of the third round of Milo’s second CHOP protocol. Each time I take him to the vets they ask how he’s doing, and I always answer “he’s doing really well”, because if he wasn’t there for chemo he’d seem like a fit and healthy young dog. When he […]
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Tags: cancer, chemo, chemotherapy, CHOP, cystitis, dachshund, doxorubicin, insurance, lymphoma, ManyPets, scan
RIP Dad
This is (something like) what I’ll read as the eulogy for my Dad at his funeral today. — My first memories of Dad were of him tinkering with stuff in his garage. He was always making and mending. He taught me how to be an engineer. There seemed to be a constant flow of people […]
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Tags: Dad, eulogy, Paul Whitfield
June 2022
Pupdate The boys got their first taste of ‘doggy daycare’ at a local kennels, and seemed to get on with it OK. They even got a report card: They also got ‘done’ this month, which led to a day or two of feeling pretty sorry for themselves: Electromagnetic Field I only found out about Electromagnetic […]
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My Dart wish list
Dart is the main language that The @ Company uses, so after a few months here are the things that I’m missing the most: 1. YAML output Dart is pretty much build around YAML. Dependencies are defined in a pubspec.yaml, so of course there’s a YAML parser, that’s what yaml/yaml.dart does. But: This library currently […]
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Tags: Dart, releases, SDK, tls, WASM, YAML
I already wrote about my plans to get a TMS9995 running on RC2014, so this is the post about how I put together an RC2014 version of Stuart Conner’s TMS 9995 Breadboard or PCB System. Planning Taking a look at the TMS9995 pinout and the RC2014 module template it became clear that there was no […]
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Tags: RC2014, ti, TMS9902, TMS9995