Jon Ellis I’ve recently gone through the installation and config of GoToSocial on a Raspberry Pi running in my office and thought I’d write a quick post to remind me of stuff and maybe others will find it useful too. First of all, after buying a Raspberry Pi OS image to the SD card, I followed the … Read more
My 4th Great Grandfather, John Britcliffe (or Britliff) is ours. On the 27th November 1842, John flew into a (drunken?) rage and ended up killing my 4th Great Grandmother, Sarah Rack and, presumably, her unborn child. The court papers describe how he beat her and it makes horrible and harrowing reading. He was convicted of … Read more
More an exercise in getting the mechanisms right for creating, loading and appending SEQ files in CBM Basic than the foolproof get rich program I secretly think it is, but you never know…. For some reason SEQ files always give me problems and it’s usually because I forget to use the correct flags, especially ‘a’ … Read more
I started geocaching in 2005. It was fairly new then and there weren’t that many caches around, but the driving force behind starting it up was to give my then young kids some incentive to come on walks with us. It worked too, they really enjoyed it, and, back then, caches seemed to be way … Read more
Here we go then, the 1st day of 2023’s Advent of Code. Day 1 looked deceptively simple, with part 1 completed in pretty quick time. The only real problem was the large amount of data caused memory overflow issues, so I split it into 4 separate parts for the data statements. I’ll list some code … Read more