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This was a really interesting read! Back in the day a friend and I started a company and Kickstartered a RPi add-on. The kickstarter campaign failed, but we ended up building anywa…

Classy job!

I recall at the Torness tour that the guide, who's a local, remembered at public the planning meetings that they were told the building wouldn't really be visible from the A1! At l…

This is nice, apart from a quick play when they were new I've never really looked at CF Workers and KV again. This made me go and have a look at the docs and find that it's actuall…

Today I learned about !

I particularly like how the UK phone number examples are not written how we would write them in the UK, which I guess underlines the point.

I'm not sure I understood much except the photo of the cake

It's a great book, my daughter loves it. I was pretty chuffed when she figured out the AND gate needs both buttons pressed at once. I'm not entirely sure she's sussed XOR yet thoug…

I've also lasered lots of things from Inkscape drawings. I've always found it easier to use than proper CAD but still get good results. I don't remember this much, but a previous m…

There is essentially no use of LoRaWAN at 433MHz in Europe, this would have been at 868

I do a lot with LoRaWAN, and I like the simplicity of its approach for class A devices, which is to wake up and transmit and then listen for a reply in two defined time windows. Th…

OMG, I had no idea Tim Hunkin was churning out YouTube videos these days! I was exactly the right age to appreciate the Secret Life of Machines, and it looks like I have several ho…

Yup, it's great. I used it to shuffle stuff from s3 into Dropbox and it was just the right tool for the job.

Back in the day I managed a small office server, backing up via a particularly slow ADSL line. It took about a week to do the initial sync, so I just let it run and in the meantime…

There's some nice fake buildings in Edinburgh, Scotland There's a fake "house" at the end of my street. It's actually a telephone exchange: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.905015…

I went on a tour round Torness a couple of years ago and it's a fantastic engineering marvel to mosey around. A few things stand out, like the old-tech ring binders and Windows 95 …

I like the photo showing the blades labelled A, B and C. Makes it look like IKEA-style assembly, but with a massive Allen key.

I stand corrected!

Nice to see that it's not just another VS Code spin off. They seem to be finding a nice middle ground between the very basic Arduino 1 IDE, and an over-complicated all-in IDE. Plus…

What I like most about this is that the site didn't fall over from the HN hug of death. I assume it must be their massively scalable Kubernetes + NoSQL DB + CDN infrastructure.

Nice Scotland simulator!

This is really cool. It's something I find hard to document at the moment so I'll try this out with my next project.

Awesome! It's great to see that the project was saved from bankruptcy. I was really gutted at the thought it would get shelved, especially as it was so far along. They've done a wh…

When this last came up on HN, the Scottish Government was in the process of rolling this out. It seems to have happened and baby boxes are now given to all newborns: https://www.pa…

It can take a huge amount of time, but actually, that bit I won't outsource yet. We do it all in house. A friend of mine with a similar business in a different field tried outsourc…