Category Archives: Projects

Building an observatory. The design.

Posted on June 5, 2018 by james

I’ve been tinkering with Sketchup (version 8 — the latest one I can get to work under Wine) to create a design for the observatory. It’s quite a handy tool for setting things out to see how they’ll all work … Continue reading →

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Building an observatory. Part 1 of many :)

Posted on June 5, 2018 by james

I’ve been promising myself that I’d build an observatory for years, but life has just got in the way a bit and I never managed to get started. I’ve now decided that I should really get on with it, so … Continue reading →

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Blast from the past…

Posted on June 5, 2018 by james

Many years back I wrote a BBC Micro emulator for Linux. I still have the source kicking around somewhere. Perhaps I’ll try to get it up and running again if I have time. Meanwhile, here are some screenshots. How many … Continue reading →

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Plans for a DIY pace clock

Posted on January 31, 2018 by james

The pool I coach at (run by the ironically-branded “Better”) has two place clocks. One has not worked since August 2017 and I initially reported the problem at the start of September 2017. It’s awkward with just one because it … Continue reading →

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In the home straight for the next oacapture release

Posted on October 21, 2017 by james

It’s taken somewhat longer than planned for various reasons, but I’m finally in the final stages of putting together the next release (v1.2.0) of oacapture. I think I’ve killed off about eighty issues on github since the last release (though … Continue reading →

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Who lost their bottle?

Posted on June 6, 2017 by james

Whilst working to clear the spoil with the dumper I’d hired I thought I’d have a go at finding the actual ground level in a part of a barn that had partially collapsed many years ago and just been abandoned. … Continue reading →

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Boys’ Toys

Posted on June 6, 2017 by james

We’ve had some piles of spoil from building work sitting about for quite some time. Until now they’ve been out of the way and it was easy enough to pretend they weren’t there, but recently I’ve decided they really need … Continue reading →

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OSX compile problem understood

Posted on April 28, 2017 by james

Understood, but no solution is in sight unfortunately. It turns out that configure doesn’t play nicely with -Werror and whilst my code still compiles and works on Linux when compiled that way it’s mostly luck. OSX does not (in my … Continue reading →

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Further frustrations with OSX…

Posted on April 27, 2017 by james

Recent versions of the command line tools for Xcode appear to have changed the way the -pthread argument to the compiler is handled such that it generates a warning if used in a call to the compiler that actually only … Continue reading →

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Well that’s not going to work then

Posted on April 24, 2017 by james

A short while ago I posted about the problems when combining Xcode’s -Wall and -Werror flags with pkg-config to get include directory flags. I’ve just been through my configure script doing the necessary work to replace the -I flags with … Continue reading →

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