Tying ChatGPT up in knots
Is it self aware? No… of course it isn’t, but it’s fun trying to break it.
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It looks like you are using an ad blocker
How to remove stupid “It looks like you’’re using an ad blocker” message from websites, and why they’re a stupid idea in the first place.
September Solar Usage
Here’s how my solar panels and battery system have been performing this month. I might do this more frequently, it’s hard going back in the historical data in my monitoring software and these posts are easy to find.
Solar battery usage
It’s a crappy cloudy day today. There was about enough sunlight to power the house, but not enough to also charge the batteries.
RC2014 Raspberry Pi Pico VGA Terminal Self-Build
The RC2014 is a DIY Z80 based computer that talks to the outside world using serial comms. This means you need a serial interface to another computer in order to control it.
ICONICA 1000W 12V Hybrid Solar Inverter Fan Replacement
I replace the noisy fans in my hybrid solar inverter with quieter ones.
Repairing my Ryobi drill battery
So I joined the Ryobi battery cult, but since their batteries are expensive I did the obvious thing and bought some off Amazon from random third party companies. The batteries seem to work well.
DIY VGA Serial Terminal
I use a Raspberry Pi Pico and turn it into a serial terminal for my RC2014.
Shut up you noisy inverter
The inverter I have for my DIY Solar setup is a noisy thing. It has two little 60mm fans that come on to cool it down. And they roar like a wannabe rackmount server.
Federated Madness
You know this Mastodon thing everyone’s going apeshit over? Well it runs on a technology called ActivityPub which is something everything needs to support. It implements social media style following and so on using a protocol that anyone can use.
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Creating an Entity Component System for My Retro Video Game Engine October 14, 2025
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October 2025
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February 2025
- - 27 Feb Borland C Dos Programming
November 2024
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- - 02 Oct Emulation Sucks
September 2024
- - 29 Sep Dodgy DOS Development
July 2024
- - 09 Jul Maximising the fun in Linux
- - 04 Jul Making Computers Fun Again
June 2024
- - 27 Jun Well crap, my PC died
May 2024
- - 11 May Soldering a Solar Light in the Sun
- - 04 May Sonoff Hacking to install Tasmota
April 2024
March 2024
January 2024
- - 22 Jan Cellular Tomato
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October 2023
- - 28 Oct estimating Battery Runtime Using Home Assistant
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September 2023
- - 21 Sep Tying ChatGPT up in knots
- - 18 Sep It looks like you are using an ad blocker
- - 16 Sep September Solar Usage
August 2023
- - 24 Aug Solar battery usage
July 2023
- - 26 Jul RC2014 Raspberry Pi Pico VGA Terminal Self-Build
- - 09 Jul ICONICA 1000W 12V Hybrid Solar Inverter Fan Replacement
June 2023
- - 25 Jun Repairing my Ryobi drill battery
- - 08 Jun DIY VGA Serial Terminal
- - 07 Jun Shut up you noisy inverter
April 2023
- - 01 Apr Federated Madness
March 2023
February 2023
- - 13 Feb Chat GPT pretending to be a BBC Micro
- - 02 Feb Samsung SDP-860 Document Camera Thing
January 2023
- - 29 Jan How to disable Chrome’s ssl and hsts warnings
- - 21 Jan When did Linux get so complicated?
- - 09 Jan Hacking Smart Home Devices - Literally
- - 01 Jan 2022 Review
December 2022
- - 19 Dec SO my network broke…
- - 05 Dec So How Long Do HDDs Last Anyway
November 2022
October 2022
- - 22 Oct Home Assistant Solar Monitoring
- - 17 Oct Workshed Tidying
- - 15 Oct MS Powertoys Remap Keyboard
- - 09 Oct DIY Home Solar Finished
September 2022
- - 04 Sep Who Debugs the Debuggers
August 2022
- - 27 Aug Document Your Internal Projects
January 2022
- - 22 Jan Freeing Smart Devices With Tasmota
- - 02 Jan 2021 Review
December 2021
- - 04 Dec Crap quality USB cables
August 2021
- - 08 Aug Import Facebook Into WordPress
June 2021
- - 02 Jun SMT Soldering and Atari ST Repairs
May 2021
- - 30 May Updated Website
- - 30 May Tecknet Mechanical Keyboard Repair
December 2020
- - 13 Dec Raspberry Pi 400 Devkit for RC2014
- - 06 Dec Microstudio.dev Game Programming
May 2020
- - 27 May Shadertoy 3 Raymarching
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- - 25 May Shadertoy 1 - Mandelbrot
April 2020
- - 18 Apr Reading Mice and Joysticks on the Spectrum Next using C
- - 15 Apr Writing C Code on a Spectrum Next
March 2020
- - 07 Mar Reading and Writing JSON using Python
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- - 01 Mar Gameboy Advance Dev Workflow in 2020
January 2020
- - 05 Jan Z80 vs C
December 2019
- - 07 Dec How to Write Emulator - Fetch Decode Execute Cycle
- - 07 Dec How to Write Emulator - Automating Tedious Programming with Excel
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- - 07 Dec How to Write Emulator - Intro
November 2019
- - 02 Nov #GitHubGameOff Jam 2019 Day 1
October 2019
- - 29 Oct Minimum Spanning Tree
September 2019
- - 08 Sep One Lone Coder Jam 2019
August 2019
- - 20 Aug Godot Wild Jam 12
- - 07 Aug GMTK Game Jam 2019
April 2019
- - 13 Apr Component Based Game Engine From Scratch Part 2
- - 13 Apr Easier Game Controller Input in SDL with SDL_GameController
March 2019
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- - 10 Mar Component Based Game Engine From Scratch Part 1
February 2019
- - 08 Feb Creating a Modern Static Website Using Hugo
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July 2018
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