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Testing a Zig project with Travis-CI

April 01, 2020


It's really easy to test a Zig project with travis-ci.

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Fix Virtualbox Guru Meditation Error

March 31, 2020


I was recently getting "Guru Meditation" errors with Virtualbox errors when attempting to start a VM...

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Conda interfering with system libraries

January 29, 2020


Every now and then I get very strange errors saying libraries are not found when they are when attempting to build a project.

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Attaching to STM32 with OpenOCD during sleep

January 10, 2020


mbed-os uses sleep to save power. This is nice except when the debugger won't attach. So here's how to force it.

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How to disable STLink Nucleo boards mounting as USB mass-storage devices

December 27, 2019


ST's STM32 Nucleo dev boards show up as a mass storage device on ubuntu by default. This is annoying and messes up flashing, so here's how to disable it. This should work for ST-LINK v1 - v3

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Running elasticsearch 2.3.5 on OpenJDK 11

October 23, 2019


Elasticsearch 2.3.5 wouldn't start on ubuntu because of an "Unrecognized VM option 'UseParNewGC'". Here's how I "fixed" it.

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Migrating to a custom user model mid-project in Django 2.2

October 23, 2019


I had to migrate user models to a custom model on Django 2.2 and all of the answers I found required wiping tables or resetting them and re-applying migrations.

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Enaml-Native updated to NDK r20 with Python 2.7.16 and 3.7.4

August 23, 2019


New builds of python for android using enaml-native were pushed out this week! They're compiled with the latest Android NDK r20 and work on Android Pie v9 (api 29). Using gradle 5.1 and gradle build tools 3.4.2!

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Github's used by metric

August 18, 2019


Github recently added a new "Used by" metric which attempts to find projects that use the given repo. I really find this metric useful (along with actual download stats of course). But it does raise some interesting questions...

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Use KDevelop with OpenOCD and mbed-os

July 01, 2019


Since it took quite a bit of searching here's a short post on using Open Chip Debugging with KDevelop and mbed-os on the STM32H7. I'm using the NUCLEO-H743ZI2 dev board which uses st-link v3.

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