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Blunderground

Recently I wrote about doing some hacking for the Palm WebOS to create a tube app for K. It’s now in a reasonably usable form so I’ve put up a noddy website and a clone of my repository is available on GitHub. As it’s at a stage where it works for the person I wrote […]

The Beaver bites (recovering from a failing hard disk)

Last week I had a hell of a time when the Kingston SSD in my laptop started failing, badly. Poky is well known as a destroyer of disks but it seems cheap SSD’s are even more susceptible to it’s toothy maw. At first it was just (extremely noticeable) performance degradation, but minutes after telling my […]

All the toys!

I’ve acquired a bunch of new gadgets of late, I’m very excited about them all so I decided to promote them here. Reading A Sony PRS 600 E-Book reader was gifted to me this Christmas, and what a fantastic piece of kit it is. I’ve been enjoying several public domain texts from Feedbooks as well […]

Self deprecating

Two weeks after it was given my talk on writing Connectivity UIs for ConnMan is already out of date. Crumbs! There have been over half a dozen ConnMan releases in the time since! Because of this I’ve decided that I’m going to keep a set of notes against ConnMan git for budding UI developers. These […]

GCDS wrap up

I’m back from my first Guadec and have had an awesome week. Hung out with a bunch of cool people, attended some great talks, absorbed the general atmosphere and got inspired to do some hacking. Guadec hacks: Started working on a ConnMan plugin to implement the shared connectivity namespace I proposed in my talk. This […]