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  #NewMusicMonday – Kiasmos & Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan

  I spent a day racking network gear, bobbing along to Kiasmos’ & Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan’s latest releases; this week’s #NewMusicMonday recommendations.

  2024-07-29

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  Debian Packaging from First Principles – Part 1 – Simple .deb

  I’ve used Debian as my distro of choice for well over a decade and whilst I’ve become familiar with “using” Debian I’ve never really understood how it worked under the hood. In this post I aim to uncover what exactly is a .deb file, what it contains and how one works.

  2024-07-25

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  Recover a single drive from an abandoned RAID 1 mirrored pair

  How much of the RAID array’s state has been lost by pulling the drive? Can one drive be mounted as if it was always just a single disk? Is there even anything left?

  2024-07-10

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  #NewMusicMonday – Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard & Slomatics

  This week I’ve listened to Doom and Sludge Metal for the first time and let albums from Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard and Slomatics wash over me whilst coding in a new language.

  2024-07-08

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  STM32 to Blinky with Rust – Part 3 – HAL and Blinky

  Now we’ll blink the LEDs on the STM32F407G-DISC1 Discovery board, starting with a single LED and finishing with all four in a pattern.

  2024-07-04

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  STM32 to Blinky with Rust – Part 2 – Development and Debug Toolchain

  This time we’re creating a basic embedded project in Rust that prints “Hello, world!” over the debug interface.

  2024-06-30

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  #NewMusicMonday – Cheap Dirty Horse, The Masochists and a (dis)honourable mention

  This week’s #NewMusicMonday is all about punk, politics and protest in the UK. We’re gearing up for a General Election, where the incumbent blue coloured right-wing party will be ousted by a red coloured right-leaning party; plus ça change…

  2024-06-24