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159 from 14 May 2009 to 17 Oct 2026
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2026 13

  1. 3d Printing Stencils?
  2. Geeetech A20T: Assembly and Configuration
  3. Tiny Zoo
  4. Using the Waveshare IMX577 Camera from Python
  5. Three-axis motion with GRBL
  6. CCCP: the Computer Controlled Camera Project
  7. Smooth Move: Taming Trajectories with Polynomials
  8. ENOTTY: Not a typewriter
  9. Seussical Jr: Totally Not Work Related
  10. Forest for the trees
  11. Boot Naked Linux
  12. Quantized Counting Considerations
  13. Unknown Unknowns in MAVE Data

2025 10

  1. Yeast Thoughts
  2. PyConAU 2025 Melbourne - The Primordial Code
  3. Writing an Apple 2 game in 2021 (Part 5)
  4. Optimistic Event Driven Simulation / Mixed Mode Simulation
  5. The Touring Commuter
  6. The Children Yearn for the Mines
  7. ZOMBIE: Remote control of the DOM
  8. Floating Ducks
  9. Cooking for Weight Weenies
  10. QR Codes and the Great Unpleasantness

2024 4

  1. Look Mum No Pixels: a Mini Vector Display
  2. Aldi "Cocoon Create" 3D Printer
  3. ESP32 Capacitive Sensors
  4. Understanding a Rotating Apparatus

2023 12

  1. Ephemeral Docker
  2. The Cycling / Bikepacking Post
  3. Decoding: The making of
  4. PyConAU 2023 Adelaide!
  5. MIDI Hero (part Ⅱ)
  6. Geeetech A20T: First Prints
  7. Multi Material 3D Printing (part 2)
  8. Multi-Material 3D Printing With OpenSCAD, Cura and the Geeetech A20T
  9. Occasional Update 2
  10. I for one welcome our Robot Overlords
  11. Attack and Dethrone Excel
  12. Trying to unbind a specific event handler function from an event in Python Tkinter?

2022 4

  1. 3D Printing a Ukulele Saddle in PLA
  2. Writing an Apple 2 game in 2021 (Part 4)
  3. Virtual Single Instruction Machines
  4. MIDI Hero

2021 8

  1. AWS ... VPCs, IP addresses, Lambdas, Network Interfaces and Security Groups
  2. PyCon 2021 Online
  3. Writing an Apple 2 game in 2021 (Part 3)
  4. Writing an Apple 2 game in 2021 (Part 2)
  5. MicroPython WebPad
  6. QuickLogic / QORC Quickfeather Devkit
  7. RPi Pico: First impressions
  8. Writing an Apple 2 game in 2021 (Part 1)

2020 11

  1. Warning: Autonomous System
  2. Journey Onward: the Apple 2 and me
  3. Autonomic Layouts
  4. DECODING: Programming Beyond Text Files
  5. Lilygo TTgo T-Watch 2020
  6. Ultima IV: Reflections
  7. Chipey-bot at Nodebots 2017
  8. Much Ado about Spreadsheets
  9. A Shorter Words List
  10. Experimenting with an Nvidia Jetson Nano
  11. Web Assembly (WASM) on ESP32 with WAMR

2019 8

  1. Saturnalia: A rotating Christmas tree
  2. Occasional Update
  3. Hyper-Normal
  4. Migen Gigatron
  5. DOOM Git Gud
  6. SystemD ModemManager: failed to set dtr/rts
  7. Hardware Roundup
  8. ESP32 MeshKit Button

2018 9

  1. Python 3: Confirmed
  2. FuPy: MicroPython for FPGAs
  3. PyCon 2018 and Compose Melbourne
  4. New New Static Blog Site
  5. WASTE: Web Abstract Syntax Tree Editor
  6. Afunctional Programming Languages
  7. Programming Beyond Text Files
  8. MicroPython with WebUSB!
  9. LinuxConf 2018 in Sydney

2017 8

  1. Rocket Surgery at Buzzconf 2017
  2. L2IoT ... IoT Networks without IP
  3. Talking MicroPython at PyConAU 2017 ...
  4. MicroPython Sprints at PyConAU
  5. Conferences in 2017 ...
  6. "use pure"; in Javascript
  7. MicroPython!
  8. LinuxConf 2017 in Hobart

2016 20

  1. MAC address resolution
  2. OMNICODE!
  3. Micropython Utilities
  4. The Internet of (Not Shit) Things (at IoT Aus)
  5. On Conferencing ...
  6. Flobot: The Journey Continues
  7. PyCon 2016 Melbourne
  8. a Virtual Load Balancer
  9. The Internet of (Not Shit) Things
  10. The Internet of Toys: ESP8266, Flobot and Ciril
  11. Postgres without SQL
  12. A Canticle for Diff3
  13. NodeMCU++ ?
  14. Ciril: Cubic Inch Robots in Labs
  15. CQRS for Blue-Green Deployment
  16. FloBot: A Graphical Dataflow Language for Robots
  17. The Emperor's New Closure: Functional Programming in Javascript
  18. Complete Containers
  19. Credit Gateway Policies
  20. LinuxConf 2016 in Geelong

2015 7

  1. mBots using Nodebot, mBlockly and Arduino
  2. Deserialize / Alter / Serialize: an Antipattern?
  3. Squawk.CC -- The true story
  4. OSDC 2015 Hobart
  5. Universal Authenticators
  6. Verifying Apple's Signed Receipts
  7. MySQL: Foreign Keys between InnoDB and MyISAM

2014 12

  1. OSDC 2014 Gold Coast
  2. ShellShock: 'bash' vulnerability
  3. You've got NO MAIL
  4. Programming for Startups
  5. The Selfish Secret: Logins Without Passwords
  6. Tranquil APIs
  7. Nginx proxy_pass to upstream Django always giving 400 Bad Request
  8. Django REST Framework
  9. Squilla: Serving up Stored Procedures
  10. Try: Except: Pass
  11. Static Sites using jQuery to appear Dynamic
  12. CSS Buttons for Native Apps

2013 8

  1. Static vs. Dynamic Sites
  2. Testing Django Performance
  3. New Static Blog Site
  4. Basic Mobile App Architecture
  5. Using Closures in Javascript
  6. Mouse Events, Canvas and Splines in Javascript / HTML5
  7. FastCGI and Memcached, all in C
  8. Make your own Client-side Certificates with a Pseudo CA

2012 5

  1. BlueSMiRF Bluetooth HID Module
  2. Imagine There's No URLs
  3. iPhone / iTunes / Windows XP / VirtualBox / Ubuntu 9.10
  4. Apple Magic Trackpad for Ubuntu Linux 10.10 Maverick
  5. GCC 4.6 linker switches

2011 8

  1. Taming "cache.manifest" Caching
  2. Making "data" URLs
  3. Virtual Localization
  4. Some thoughts on AWS
  5. Python in the Browser
  6. More Trickiness With SSH (Comments)
  7. Templates Fugit
  8. More Trickiness With SSH

2010 5

  1. (sort of) First Class Classes in C#
  2. Hyperterminal “send text file” eats ASCII LF / 0x0A
  3. FreeTDS without udp 1434
  4. Fibonacci Regex Perversity
  5. Functional Parallel Programming

2009 7

  1. Milestones ...
  2. SyntaxError: keyword argument repeated
  3. VRML: Very Odd.
  4. Multiple Inequalities in Google AppEngine
  5. wget –certificate=$X –private-key=$X
  6. Quick guide to setting up TortoiseCVS / TortoiseSVN
  7. First Post !!!1!