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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

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  STM32 to Blinky with Rust – Part 1 – Hardware – STM32F407G-DISC1

  For around £20 you can buy a development board with an Arm Cortex M4 and some peripherals including an accelerometer, microphone, DAC, and USB OTG port. This documents my attempt to get a rust toolchain installed, connect the debugger and confirm it can see the ARM chip, ready for programming.

  2024-06-20

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  #NewMusicMonday – Alkanes, Broadsea & PaperSailor

  In an effort to “be the change [I] want to see”, I’m going to do my best to share my own #NewMusicMonday choices with the fediverse every week, and see if I can’t find some likeminded folks. This week it’s albums and EPs from Alkanes, Broadsea and PaperSailor.

  2024-06-17

• Data loss: A blind-spot in my backup strategy

  Last week I suffered a catastrophic disk failure, leaving my 1TB NVMe drive completely unreadable. Luckily I have backups, I thought.

  2024-04-01