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

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

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.

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!

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...

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.

In order to create reproducable cuts / engravings the controller must be able to properly "zero" all axis' to a known state before starting a job.

We just launched a forum for Inkcut at inkcut.org. The forum is dedicated to Inkcut and various vinyl cutter and plotter enthusiasts, go check it out!

You can easily debug any python app by adding two lines of code that simply adds a "breakpoint" that embeds the IPython interpreter.