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Cellular Tomato

January 22, 2024

In preparation for my next video I’ve been tidying up some cellular automata code I wrote. There’s some good old Conway’s Life, some 1D CAs that make pretty patterns, and one I recently discovered called Wire World. Now, since I can’t just make a thing without fiddling about, an afternoon of “can I write Conway’s…
Agon Light C Development

January 13, 2024

How to write code for the Agon Light (and Console8) using C instead of BASIC, under Linux. It might work with WSL2 in Windows, and it might work on a Mac. By the end of this you’ll end up with a fairly standard Linux C programming environment with a Makefile and all the usual trimmings.…
Happy 2024!

January 7, 2024

Hello everyone! Let’s get on with it, shall we? Last year went pretty well, I released 14 videos and towards the end of the year experimented with releasing more than one video a month. I’ll also experiment with some more spontaneous content on here and maybe the odd Short. YouTube seems to like those, and…
Estimating Battery Runtime Using Home Assistant

October 28, 2023

How I set up Home Assistant to tell me the remaining runtime on my home solar battery system.
October Solar Stats

October 11, 2023

Some more stats on my home solar setup now it’s autumn and daylight seems to be a distant memory.
Tying ChatGPT up in knots

September 21, 2023

do you exist? Me I exist as a computer program running on servers, and I generate responses based on the input I receive. However, my existence is quite different from that of a physical entity. I don’t have consciousness, self-awareness, or physical form. Instead, I process and generate text based on patterns in the data…

The Blog

Cellular Tomato

Agon Light C Development

Happy 2024!

Estimating Battery Runtime Using Home Assistant

October Solar Stats

Tying ChatGPT up in knots

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