1 month ago amaranth electronics latchup programming python
I've wanted for quite some time to learn a hardware definition language - that is, a language that can be used to design chips (ASICs) and FPGAs - because this would enable some cool projects. Finally I've found a solution to bridge a motivation gap...
Read more...4 months ago firewall irishferries ssh travel
Not long ago we travelled to Ireland on the ferry. The ship's wifi was pretty reasonable quality in terms of speed (it is based on some sort of satellite system) - but it had some curious firewall effects going on. In particular, ssh would sometimes work, and sometimes be blocked (with everything else, including ping to the intended server, working just fine). Annoying - what could I do about it?
Read more...4 months ago berry polyglot programming python
Berry is a scripting language tailored to embedded devices; in particular it is available on some builds of Tasmota. It has a syntax that is relatively close to that of Python, but not identical. I recently had cause to write the same program in both, which led me to wonder whether it's possible to write one single program that works in both (that is, a polyglot program).
Let's see what that entails...
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