Leigh Brown
@lbb.moonstrc.uk
I'm pretty happy with this. A Raspberry Pi 5 with both a @pimoroni.com NVME Base and the Pi52 ICE Tower Plus Cooler purchased from @thepihut.bsky.social. Now all I need is a case to put it in!
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December 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I'm pretty happy with this. A Raspberry Pi 5 with both a @pimoroni.com NVME Base and the Pi52 ICE Tower Plus Cooler purchased from @thepihut.bsky.social. Now all I need is a case to put it in!
shop.pimoroni.com/products/nvm...
thepihut.com/products/ice...
shop.pimoroni.com/products/nvm...
thepihut.com/products/ice...
The bread machine cycle:
1. Hey, look at this bread machine, we haven't used it for years. Let's make bread!
2. OMG this bread is just so delicious!!!
3. OMG I just ate 4000 calories of bread, hide the bread machine and forget it exists.
1. Hey, look at this bread machine, we haven't used it for years. Let's make bread!
2. OMG this bread is just so delicious!!!
3. OMG I just ate 4000 calories of bread, hide the bread machine and forget it exists.
April 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The bread machine cycle:
1. Hey, look at this bread machine, we haven't used it for years. Let's make bread!
2. OMG this bread is just so delicious!!!
3. OMG I just ate 4000 calories of bread, hide the bread machine and forget it exists.
1. Hey, look at this bread machine, we haven't used it for years. Let's make bread!
2. OMG this bread is just so delicious!!!
3. OMG I just ate 4000 calories of bread, hide the bread machine and forget it exists.
Woken to scream from the missus, turns out the intruder was easy to deal with.
March 8, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Woken to scream from the missus, turns out the intruder was easy to deal with.
Unexpected bonus when visiting the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park today
March 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Unexpected bonus when visiting the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park today
One advantage of open source software is that you have the ability to find and fix a problem yourself, which can be really satisfying. However, often you just ... wait for somebody else to fix it. So anyway, the latest Pico 2 micropython firmware has fixed the SD card on my Pico-ResTouch-LCD-3.5 😀
January 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
One advantage of open source software is that you have the ability to find and fix a problem yourself, which can be really satisfying. However, often you just ... wait for somebody else to fix it. So anyway, the latest Pico 2 micropython firmware has fixed the SD card on my Pico-ResTouch-LCD-3.5 😀
Had a bacon and fried egg sandwich and the egg yolk exploded and went all down my arm, and I didn't mind at all. Glorious!
January 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Had a bacon and fried egg sandwich and the egg yolk exploded and went all down my arm, and I didn't mind at all. Glorious!
Self service tills are great, except when you need assistance, which is EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
January 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Self service tills are great, except when you need assistance, which is EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
Years ago, I wanted an ISDN line. Just when it became cheap enough, Cable internet came and offered 4 times the speed for a 1/4 of the price. Similarly, it is now cheap and easy to get a VOIP telephone with tons of features - just as everybody is stopping using land lines. Still got one though 😃
January 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Years ago, I wanted an ISDN line. Just when it became cheap enough, Cable internet came and offered 4 times the speed for a 1/4 of the price. Similarly, it is now cheap and easy to get a VOIP telephone with tons of features - just as everybody is stopping using land lines. Still got one though 😃
Misty at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park today
December 26, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Misty at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park today
I feel as though there should be a prize for figuring out libnl. Just to be clear, I have NOT earned that prize yet,
December 23, 2024 at 6:45 AM
I feel as though there should be a prize for figuring out libnl. Just to be clear, I have NOT earned that prize yet,
Just completed my regular sweep of the radiator thermostatic valves to turn them back down. My suggestion of a change request system did not go down well.
December 18, 2024 at 9:26 AM
Just completed my regular sweep of the radiator thermostatic valves to turn them back down. My suggestion of a change request system did not go down well.
I realised the network dropping out was due to the high traffic at 4am when all my backups kick in. Anyway, I have moved the server to a different switch port and last night no drop out.🤞
December 15, 2024 at 8:36 AM
I realised the network dropping out was due to the high traffic at 4am when all my backups kick in. Anyway, I have moved the server to a different switch port and last night no drop out.🤞
Apparently I'm not "normal" because I like to keep my iPhone battery between 30% and 70%
December 13, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Apparently I'm not "normal" because I like to keep my iPhone battery between 30% and 70%
I migrated some VMs from Xen to Qemu/KVM and they stopped working over night. I angrily went down to reboot the server but it turned out to be a dodgy connection to the switch. The migration continues...
December 13, 2024 at 8:09 AM
I migrated some VMs from Xen to Qemu/KVM and they stopped working over night. I angrily went down to reboot the server but it turned out to be a dodgy connection to the switch. The migration continues...
The circle is complete. Started with KDE about 20 years ago, then switched to Gnome, Xfce, and then Mate. Now, back to KDE. Just installed it in my new laptop and it is rather nice.
December 13, 2024 at 7:25 AM
The circle is complete. Started with KDE about 20 years ago, then switched to Gnome, Xfce, and then Mate. Now, back to KDE. Just installed it in my new laptop and it is rather nice.
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December 12, 2024 at 10:38 PM
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UPS successfully carried my new laptop 6000 miles from China, but failed the last 4 miles from the local depot 😡. Oh well, maybe tomorrow...
December 10, 2024 at 7:57 PM
UPS successfully carried my new laptop 6000 miles from China, but failed the last 4 miles from the local depot 😡. Oh well, maybe tomorrow...
Why are my jumbo frames not working? Because my switch that says it supports jumbo frames DOES NOT support jumbo frames. arrrrrgh
December 9, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Why are my jumbo frames not working? Because my switch that says it supports jumbo frames DOES NOT support jumbo frames. arrrrrgh
Wow, backing up 5.5TB to a USB hard disk takes a lot longer than you might think. Over 12 hours at 120MB/s...
December 8, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Wow, backing up 5.5TB to a USB hard disk takes a lot longer than you might think. Over 12 hours at 120MB/s...
The dopamine hit from sending a one line fix to a random project on GitHub should not be underestimated.
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Fix behaviour of CALL.SIL opcode by leighbb · Pull Request #1 · tomm/ez80
CALL.SIL does not exhibit the same behaviour as, for example, LD.SIL A,(Mmn), in that it will not replace the top 8 bits of the 24-bit address with MBASE.
Update build_call() to use env.advance_imm...
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December 6, 2024 at 11:15 AM
The dopamine hit from sending a one line fix to a random project on GitHub should not be underestimated.
github.com/tomm/ez80/pu...
github.com/tomm/ez80/pu...
Yes, I have a bit of a problem.
December 5, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Yes, I have a bit of a problem.
Reflecting on the fact that I did not discover houmous until my late forties. What other amazing food am I not aware of?!
December 3, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Reflecting on the fact that I did not discover houmous until my late forties. What other amazing food am I not aware of?!
I love the Linux bridge vlan functionality and I've cooked up a very rough patch for libvirtd to let you put each virtual machine on a different (or more than one) vlan using nothing more than a single iproute2 bridge. Now to do a bit more testing.
November 30, 2024 at 7:53 PM
I love the Linux bridge vlan functionality and I've cooked up a very rough patch for libvirtd to let you put each virtual machine on a different (or more than one) vlan using nothing more than a single iproute2 bridge. Now to do a bit more testing.
Outrageous! My wife's Christmas party today and it will be just her and the IT guy. Okay, she's self employed and I'm the IT guy, but still...
November 30, 2024 at 7:58 AM
Outrageous! My wife's Christmas party today and it will be just her and the IT guy. Okay, she's self employed and I'm the IT guy, but still...
Thanks, but no thanks, I guess??
November 29, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Thanks, but no thanks, I guess??