Technical Writer
This post provides information about obtaining the specific residence card for people who have been resident in Italy since before Brexit.
Continue reading “Brexit: Carta di Soggiorno for residents in Italy”The pigpio library for GPIO control supports hardware timing for PWM and servo outputs, which provides much more accurate and jitter-free control. It can be used from gpiozero by setting the pin factory.
However, for some reason, pigpio is not included in the latest version (“trixie”) of Raspberry Pi OS. This post summarizes how to build it from source.
I have an audio project (streaming radio) running on a Raspberry Pi. When I tested it on the latest version of the OS (“trixie”) I couldn’t get the audio to work. This post explains how I got it to work.
Continue reading “I2S audio on Raspberry Pi OS “trixie””This post describes my experience using a Raspberry Pi as a wireless VPN gateway. In particular, how to solve the terrible performance I had initially.
As an addition to the examples of work page, this is a summary of some of the work I have done recently as a ghost writer (so no details available):
Continue reading “Summary of recent work”WordPress is a website creation and blogging platform that I have used for a number of websites (including this one). It’s very quick to install, highly customisable and well supported. You can find out more and download an installer from WordPress.org.
Continue reading “WordPress plugins”I have been doing more work on flash memories and decided to write up the notes I have been taking.
This article is about the technology behind flash memory: how data is stored, the architecture of flash memories and (briefly) how data is read, written and erased. (This may turn into a series with more detail on various aspects of flash technology.)
Continue reading “Flash memory”I don’t know WTF just happened in the UK parliament. It is complete chaos. After tonight’s votes it seems that this government (and parliament) are out of control and totally ineffective.
Continue reading “What just happened in Parliament?”A while ago, I found myself with more work than usual, for several different clients. There were about a dozen projects to finish in a few weeks and I was beginning to lose track of where I was with all of them. I looked around at various tools that would help keep on top of all this. Most were too complex for my needs, and very few were free (or nearly free). In the end, I found one I am really happy with.
Continue reading “Airtable for project planning”