I revived my old Lenovo Miix 310 yesterday. It’s not a great machine by any stretch, but it at least fills a niche similar to the one netbooks used to play for me: it’s small, low-power, and can be thrown in a bag. The top row of the …

In the last entry, I implemented a ‘chat’-style protocol. Using loop.create_connection(), I can reuse ChatProtocol, but with a different client implementation to allow some interactivity. I’m assuming the server is in the same directory as this file so ChatProtocol can be imported from it.

import asyncio

from …

In the last entry, I managed to get a very basic daemon running. Now I need to flesh out the initial Protocol implementation to first turn it into a proper echo server and then implement a simple parser for a ‘chat’-style protocol.

The first bit is at least easy …

I have an old project called uwhoisd from a previous life. It’s been about eight years since I last did anything significant with it. It’s now largely obsolete owing to the ICANN policy changes partially forced by the GDPR, but I’d like to use it as a …

I’ve started on a bit of a cleanup of various distractions in my life. I’m also looking to see what I can wind down that I currently run.

I’ve deleted and blocked YouTube for a start. It’s became nothing but a timesink and I’m not …

Here’s a TOTP (RFC 6238) implementation I submitted to a library. The PR was rejected because the maintainer considered it out of scope, but the implementation is fine.

I’ll be deleting the branch, but I figured I’d might as well store it here for posterity.

import base64 …

I’d an awkward problem to solve recently: how do you build a relatively cross-platform fat RPM for a Python application without having to build out a bunch of extra build infrastructure.

On the face of it, this is easy, and this is something I’ve partially solved before. I …

The Agon Light doesn’t have an equivalent of the “programmer’s reference guides” of old, so I’ve been doing some poking around in different places to see what information I can gather together.

There’s an agon-light tag on Github that lists a few interesting repositories. In particular …

I ordered an Agon Light 2 recently from Olimex, which is a modification of Bernardo Kastrup’s original Agon Light.

It’s a small, inexpensive Z80-based board with a GPIO port, allowing it to be used as a microcontroller board, but it can also be used similarly to an …

Covering the second part of chapter 7, which deal with exceptions and backtraces.

Covers the first prat of chapter 7: error-aware datatypes and exceptions.

Covers records and program structure (files, modules, and programs).

Covers lists and patterns.

Because it’s been so long since I’ve done anything in OCaml, I’m going through Real World OCaml. I have the first edition, and though the second edition came out earlier this month, it’s the original that I’m going through. I’m hoping this is useful …

It’s been a while since I did one of these. The world imploded a few months after the last one.

I think we can agree that the last three years have been a total shitfest for everyone. Things certainly haven’t been getting much better, and it doesn’t …

I haven’t posted here for quite some time. However, I’ve been doing some work on restoring some old content such as my Aonsdát Éireann page, fixing up a bunch of missing redirects, and so on. There are a number of entries I want to restore from my old …

I’ve always wanted to build electronics for myself, but I’ve never had the chance. That’s something I’d like to fix.

I’ve a few projects that have been banging around my head for a while, which are all related in some way or another.

The first …

I haven’t posted anything here in a very long time. I figure I’d might as well share a small tool I knocked together.

Here it is:

#!/bin/sh

set -eu

usage () {
    echo "usage: ${0##*/} [-h] [MESSAGE]"
}

# Ensure data directory exists
: "${DOING_ROOT:=${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/doing}"
mkdir -p …

Planet Mercury is a Planet-style feed aggregator I’ve been writing in Go over the past few days.

It’s now at the Minimal Viable Product stage, so I figure there’s no harm in announcing its existence to the world. If you want to poke around the currenty …

I recently received my Spectrum Next. I’d been waiting three years for it, and they started sending them out just as the lockdown started. Thankfully, even though I wasn’t able to update the address, they were able to receive it at the office, and drop it over, which …