Author: Glenn Trigg
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Ghostty – Debian/Ubuntu package
I’m really liking this new terminal emulator, ghostty, so while we’re waiting for official deb packages to appear, here is my offering for the amd64/x86-64 architecture. md5sum: c8d2899a54a1349b9b75a8355983a6b6shasum: 41bbf845a40e10b015310ce9c64f20645f7b88e0
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Then and now – 37 years in electronics
In 1985 I completed the final year project for my electronic engineering degree. The project I chose was an ultrasonic level detector. Here is the introduction from my report which explains the use scenarios… Without getting too technical, the solution involved using a special purpose ultrasonic transceiver integrated circuit (LM1812 by National Semiconductor) surrounded by…
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Contemplating the power outage
Recently we experienced a severe storm that left the area without power, phone & internet. The water supply for the house that we occupy comes from a tank that collects rain water, and is fed to the house via an electric pump. So when the power is out we also don’t have any tap water…
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The case against having pets
Whoever came up with the idea of domesticating animals and turning them into pets had one of the worst ideas ever! My rant
Ok, with that out of the way here are some thoughts around why keeping pets is not a good idea. They start out fairly personal and mostly opinion and progress to… -
Learning 3D – modelling & printing
A “real life” situation When learning something new, I find it very useful to have an actual application to which the learning applies. I had previously made a couple of attempts at learning 3D modelling using Blender but with essentially nothing to show for it, due to a few reasons, one of which was that…