I have a habit of revamping my website every few years. Since starting on Blogger some ... 19 years ago I've moved between platforms and redesigned the layout several times over. This time I decided to go for a static site build, which means not requiring managing WordPress plugins and updates, or...
A few months ago I was looking through questions posted to the Raspberry Pi Stack Exchange site. If you're not familiar, Stack Exchange provides Q&A sites like Stack Overflow for specific areas, such as particular programming languages, technologies or other topics. And while observing the erratic...
There's much more to managing a project with git beyond just committing code and working with branches. GitHub-Driven Development is a process that will help you organize and manage the progression of a project on GitHub, although much of this could be applied to other systems, such as GitLab, as...
I was sad to hear the news of the death of Ronnie Corbett. I've always been a huge fan of The Two Ronnies and much of the other work the duo had done both together and individually. Within moments of the news breaking, tributes such as photographs of four candles and fork handles, and links to...
For about the last 3 years, the de-facto method of accessing physical components via the Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins has been a Python library called RPi.GPIO, created by Ben Croston, who originally built it to control his beer brewing process. Despite its humble beginnings in a personal hobby...