Sunday, October 4, 2020

Desktop Software API's in Python (KiCAD, FreeCAD, Blender, QGIS)

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Python wraps around everything For the last couple of years I have mostly written Satellite Data Processing code in Python and plenty of F...
Sunday, August 30, 2020

Compiling QGIS in MSVC in 2020

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Compiling QGIS on Windows in 200x I don't quite remember when I decided to help compile QGIS on Windows. It was somewhere between compi...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Microservices the hard way - folders in EC2 Instance

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For day to day work I wrangle containers in EKS these days. However when doing personal projects EKS is a luxury (baseline cost being $70 or...
Monday, June 1, 2020

Replicating Databases in RDS

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One Sunday in 2018 I sat for a whole day in Art Caffe at the ground floor of Yaya Centre in Nairobi on the phone to Norman at AWS Support in...
Thursday, May 7, 2020

ADE7816 Energy Monitor

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I have been meaning to try out the ADE7816 Single-phase 6 current channels energy monitor for a while. However time has been lacking for th...
Saturday, April 4, 2020

Distributed Locking from Python while running on AWS

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In the day and age of eventually consistent web-scale applications the concept of locking may seem very archaic. However in some instances ...
Friday, January 24, 2020

Testing the OrangeCrab r0.1

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After hassling Greg Davill for a while on twitter and admiring his OrangeCrab hardware I managed to catch up with him in person in Adelaid...