When I was 10 years old, I learned that my father had a brain tumour. He was treated, our family life continued. Around that same time — just before, actually — I’d been taken out of my state comprehensive education, and moved into a private school 10 miles from where…

At the start of 2021, I built my first “Raspberry Pi Cluster-in-a-Box”. It was based on a HAT (Hardware Attached on Top) expansion board for the Pi, called the Cluster HAT. Some folks thought it was cool… and others (somewhat predictably) asked… why? The answer…

Why this particular version? MicroPython 1.19 is the stable version and I've found that there have been a lot of improvements for ESP32 support lately.

I cannot imagine myself in a role where I need to deliver code to a spec on a specific schedule. I've been fortunate through consulting, problem solving / support, and Dev Rel, to not have to do that on a 9-5 basis, and to have gained all the platform stack and coding language skills you mention. It turns out to be a great role for my mindset :-) and the community aspect speaks to my social preference, as well.

A couple of weeks ago, I learned from my podcast co-hosts, Michael Martine and Michael Rowe, that something new was afoot. tl;dr I’ve long been fascinated by the convergence of the physical, virtual, visual, and digital worlds (as have Michael and Michael), and I have a background in literature, Shakespeare…

Well, if the “new” world of newsletters is going to be any, for me, it’s likely to be a slow burner. I remember Roo’s Letter was a fun weekly distraction, and Benedict Evans has had one for the longest time… Going even further back, Delicious used to post a weekly…

[this story was originally posted on DEV] Along with many others in tech, I’ve been working from home on a forced-permanent basis since mid-March. Over that time, I’ve incrementally improved my working environment. I’ve been living in the place I’m currently at for a little over 7 years, but up…

(spoilers: let’s move on) What was “Victory in Europe”? – it was a defining victory for peace and freedom. Amazon’s infallible algorithm is suggesting I might want to buy Union Flag bunting, or a “stick the cigar on the Churchill” game, stuff I assume is in high demand ahead of the 75th anniversary of…

As a long-time confirmed Trek fan (I read TOS novels at school… I was secretary of my university Star Trek society, I stood in line for the first of the Next Gen movies back when I was at university too, wrote magazine articles… oh, I’m the geek you always knew…