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Nixies + Raspberry Pi


Dec
25
Time to talk with my Raspberry, this time to make old-school eyecandy. A client requested my help to make smooth transitions for his nixie tubes, all in python running on the Raspberry.
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PEG or Regex?


Aug
15
Last week I was working on a project and decided to try Parsing Expression Grammars for string matching (instead of the more usual PCRE). Stepping outside of the comfort zone was fun!
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Managing my Luas


Jun
22
Two of my favorite tools are Lua and LuaJIT, for their careful design, excellent performance and simple C interface. So I made a version manager to ease setup in new systems and servers.
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Optiboot for Nanos


May
15
Sometimes we need just a little more space for our Arduino sketches, so we use another Arduino as an ISP programmer and burn the smaller Optiboot bootloader into our Nanos too!
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YCM and MSYS2


Apr
26
MSYS2 is a fantastic project for running ported GNU/Linux software on MS Windows natively, but unfortunately YouCompleteMe does not build cleanly with msys2-x86_64. Until today.
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New Year


Dec
30

Another year comes, so it is time for renewed spirits and happy faces! I just wish to empty the drawer of interrupted projects (and make this blog roll.)

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20th Million Man March


Oct
07

In three days the 20th Million Man March will happen. I made this T-Shirt design for one of the attendant groups, but got no response yet…

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Under construction


Oct
01

With barely a month left, I’m suddenly thinking about the Codegeist 2015 Hackaton. So tinyhub, you will be both my vendor identity and my development blog. Let’s see what happens.

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