Link to a snapshot of the CH32V003 aware version of swindle for the RP2040Gunzip the uf2 and do as usual to flash the rp2040 with the uf2.YOU ABSOLUTELY NEED A 1KOhm RESISTOR BETWEEN IO and 3.3v!Pinout :-CH32 IO pin : GPIO13 of RP2040 (+1K pullup to 3.3v!)-CH232 reset : GPIO10 of RP2040 (optional)- Ground!To use you need to setup gdb the following way (~ same thing with vscode)target extended-remote /dev/ttyACM0 (name of the CDC device)set remotetimeout 500000monitor sdi_scanset mem…

Re-reading Dombey and Son. How did Dickens create so many walk-on characters that are funny but also alive? Miss Tox and the Major being two. Both are shown to clearly want something - to marry Dombey (Miss Tox) to impress Miss Tox (the Major.) It reminds me of Evelyn Waugh advising a writer not just to bring someone onstage to make jokes. Miss Tox and the Major are always trying to reach their goals. Marty comes over again to collect some records. He tells me he has so many records he keeps…

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got difficult dads, hilltop beer gardens and sea buckthorn. First, some interesting commentary on some not particularly interesting news. A couple of weeks ago, Timothy Taylor rebranded, as described by Laura Hadland for CAMRA’s What’s Brewing website: “The Keighley brewer has replaced its pumpclip illustrations of white men in the role of landlord, boltmaker etc with… slightly different illustrations of…

Actually they do… A solid show! I especially liked the first half where they were trying to hide that they were playing the games at school. Then the second half transitioned to a fighting game tournament and tournaments are just not something I tend to enjoy. They did make it interesting as far as these things go though due to some larger than life characters. Especially loved the little girl who was a total asshole. I read the start of the manga years ago, and I have to say, I honestly liked…

The slow build of the blooming… Image by Author, created in AI. Once upon a time, there was a cruise ship meandering about the Atlantic, just off the shores of Cape Cod. Why said ship was doing so or where it was eventually going is of little importance. What we should focus on is the angst and drama that transpired right after an ill-advised “talent show” had just taken place, a poorly organized event that most of the folks in attendance would quickly forget and then carry on with their lives.…

I know my Royal books as only a confirmed Republican champagne socialist can. I read them all with a strong suspicious gaze, entrenched in my lefty feminism. I am always looking for books at the sweetspot of fairness, a certain objectivity, and clever, funny commentary. If they are somewhat bitchy, all the better. The i newspaper asked me to pick my favourites, in the light of the new book by Charles Spencer on his sister, Diana Princess of Wales, who died 29 years ago. “Of course they can’t…

If you love easy comfort food that hits the spot every single time, these Open Faced Garlic Toast Italian Sloppy Joes are about to become a new favorite! This simple, family-friendly recipe brings together two classics - saucy savory Sloppy Joes and crispy, buttery garlic toast - for a fun twist that delivers big on flavour with very little effort.Each garlic toast is rich with a meaty spaghetti sauce and melty mozzarella topping, a proper delicious hot sandwich. You can stick to the original…

Today, September 24, 2026, is a historic day for Catholics as Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen is beatified. His remarkable ability to communicate timeless truths with clarity, wit, and warmth has inspired generations of Catholics, and his writings have had a profound influence on my own faith. As the Church celebrates Blessed Fulton Sheen, I wanted … Continue reading Selected Quotes From Fulton Sheen The post Selected Quotes From Fulton Sheen first appeared on The Simple Catholic. The post Selected…

I wanted to design a robotics project for kids with the following goals in mind: Build time not more than about a (longer) afternoon Should not be perfect: the kids should feel the need to improve the robot with better hard- and software after the workshop No special tools should be required to repair, improve and reprogram the robot Should use only cheap components (about 10 USD plus the micro:bit) Should be powered by a standard power bank (and not disposable batteries) for environmental…

Liveblog 260926 (with hourly updates) 07:00 I have woken up and brewed a cup of tea. 08:00 I have bought a newspaper and am off to catch a train to the seaside. 08:15 I am at the ticket office trying to buy my ticket. I want to use a Delay Pay Rail Travel Voucher to pay most of the fare. The man behind the counter tries scanning it several times, also asks his colleague for advice, also looks in his folder for advice, also rings someone up for advice, also the colleague tries to scan it at her…

Unfortunately we are not going to make it Saturday or Sunday except for polls. Monday we will definitely be up with news. Today's Senate Polls Yet another poll showing Ken P. in trouble. Could this be real? Republicans are going to put north of $100 million in here calling James Talarico every name they can think of, probably including socialist, communist, pedophile, child molester, atheist, illegal immigrant, the devils spawn, Nancy Pelosi's illegitmate trans daughter/son, and more. Click…

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Camera: Ricoh G IV Monochrome. Wandered around the Australian National Gallery for a while today. There is currently a new exhibition of Arthur Boyd tapestries (details HERE). Wowsers. These works are magnificent IMHO. Mr Boyd commissioned the tapestries to a group of artisans in Portugal. At 2.5 by 3.4 metres, each tapestry is a scene in the artist’s retelling of the life of one of the most venerated figures in human history, St Francis of Assisi. Woven at a scale more than 20 times larger…

I was recently the willful accomplice victim of a successful plot to pull me back into Skyrim. I put hundreds of hours into the game back in high school but had mostly escaped — until my friend texted me when I was sick. While playing through it seemed like the pickpocketing chance was bugged. Follow me down the spiraling rabbit hole to reverse engineer what backs it, what causes the bug, and just how much gold I can get away with stealing.

Honestly weirdly I feel like I am a lot more at home here mainly because of all the people I still know and all the memories. My only complaint is the fact that Heathrow is not a quiet airport. The speaker won’t shut up.

What song do you associate with the current season? It does not always rain in Scotland. It’s a myth. But when it does it can be days of grey skies, from a constant smirr to a torrential downpour. Many memories of drizzle drenched days, as the temperature falls, the leaves turn and fall, and minds think ahead to winter. I love Autumn. The warmth that lingers and spikes with the remnants of summer, swept away in an instant by a cold breeze, the first signs of the coming cold. And, in Scotland,…

There’s been a huge increase in social media posts about how: “The sun doesn’t cause skin cancer” “Sunscreen doesn’t prevent skin cancer” “Sunscreen causes skin cancer” I’ve been asked by more than one person in real life: “How do I explain to someone that it’s not sunscreen, it’s the sun, it’s obviously the freaking sun?” Here’s a summary of the ... Read more Source

My partner and I have decided the hotel bed isn't very comfy. Having a hard time sleeping. Bleh

The most casually intelligent person I have ever known was D.G. Myers, who died on this date, September 26, in 2014. I prize intelligence but it’s not a virtue that can be valued in isolation. We’ve all known very bright people who are insufferable, who insist on reminding you of their brilliance and behave like intellectual bullies. No question, David was opinionated and loved a good argument but he also appreciated and embodied what Timothy Steele called “reasoned self-forgetfulness.” It was…

Today I saw a Kickstarter going around for the new adventuring A Sliver of Evidence from Cairn Press. It looks sick, I love that art so much, and I immediately went and read the free version on itch. I’ve had a bugbear recently about wanting adventure modules to come with pregen characters who are more embedded in the scenario than random travelers hired to wander into a situation blind. I’ve actually twice written a long blogpost about what I think the advantages of this are like, and both…

The IANA timezone database contains over 400 timezone entries mostly named as “<continent>/<city>”. They are meticulously cataloged to group regions of the world not only by UTC offset but also by the presence and timing of Daylight Savings as well as current and historical timezone policy changes. The github.com/albertyw/localtimezone repository maps latitude/longitude data to IANA timezone names. It is based on github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder which in term is based on…

Unfortunately, though I saw a number of trains visiting our daughter in Italy, I never had my camera at the right time. So I’ll just have to post a few pictures of Lake Iseo and Monte Isola…… Back to railways…… I’ve always been fascinated by the LBSCR overhead electrics…. Wandsworth Road in 1915, and constructing cantilever overhead at Clapham Junction. Java in 1975. There were some lovely narrow gauge locomotives in Indonesia at that time. Mind you, East Croydon in 1895 was more interesting…

Saturday 2th September 2026 With D-Day (bus Deregulation Day) now just a month away, the 24th September 1986 edition of the fortnightly newspaper Bus Business contained more news of NBC’s privatisation process as well as the unstoppable march of minibuses. Thanks to the Bus Archive, let’s take a look at some of the main stories featured in that issue to gain a flavour of what life was like running buses exactly 40 years ago including the front page headline story… ‘Blacklist’ angers rejected…

Anywhere that I chose to fish after that Trent trip was always going to be a tad deflating, the hectic nature of how the session unfolded is something I rarely experience, the feeling of being miles away from a Barbel is how I usually feel. A visit to the River Bourne for an afternoon / evening session the other day was in order, having finished a job not too far away I thought it was probably the best option. I opted to rove around, drop a few boilies in each likely looking area then leaving…

Bow Roundabout update #25 Last week I told you that a wedge of raised tarmac on Stratford High Street had been removed, immediately adjacent to the contraflow beneath the flyover that's never been opened. "All it needs now is a repaint," I said. Well, that repaint has now happened. I know it may not look like it because the arrow and hatched area are still visible, but unwanted white lines are hard to get rid of. Previously all eastbound traffic leaving the Bow Roundabout was funnelled into a…

By David Tuller, DrPH George Monbiot, the British investigative journalist and longtime contributor to The Guardian, has written a corker of a column about the mistreatment and abuse of people with ME/CFS, including those with Long COVID. This newest piece follows two of Monbiot’s previous Guardian essays—in March, 2024, and October, 2024–that were equally blunt […]

A quintessential view of Southern California. We dropped someone off at LAX and stopped at the In-N-Out Burger right at the edge of the north runway. It's a perfect place to photograph planes landing, they are only a couple of hundred feet off the ground. It's Instabae, as they say in Japanese, a place perfectly designed for likes on Instagram; and there were plenty of visiting hipsters posing for their followers. I brightened the photo and erased some light poles. But other than that, this is…

The Class 14 "Teddy Bear" has, to my eyes, always been an attractive loco. Sadly, it was a bit of a failure - the traffic it was designed to handle was fading away as the locos were delivered. This video covers it nicely, with some well-researched archive footage. But, the highlight for me is at 12:50, when we see a self-propelled rail-mounted Coles crane batting along a bit of track. I don't recall seeing one of these in action before, and it can certainly move!I built a static model of this…