Posts
Blog posts on current things, interesting ones may become permanent articles, others remain here in the date-ordered listing
- A Museum Piece 2 min read - Apr 25, 2025 - by Slash One does not expect to find something particularly rare buried in the back of a damp shed. But here we are! A genuine museum piece, from the late 1930s, intended for Admiralty use, we find a ship's radio by Marconi. We donated it to the Marconi Collection which is kept in Oxford Museum by radio history experts :)
- Valve gear renovation 8 min read - Apr 25, 2025 - by Slash Ahh, the warm glow of valve/tube powered electronics. What did you think I meant? Plumbing??
- EMFcamp 2024 4 min read - Jun 20, 2024 - by Phlash Some weekends are normal, others…
- Scheduled Hugo Posts 1 min read - Apr 1, 2024 Post-dating blog posts..
- Wireplay calling - hello 1996! 2 min read - Dec 11, 2023 - by Slash A recently recovered BT Wireplay trial pack from Slash’s loft - let’s open it up :) BONUS: Phlash had one of the original CD-RWs as sent to the pressing plant!
- Downgrading WordPress after an upgrade incident 3 min read - Nov 22, 2023 - by Phlash Sometimes you click too many buttons in a UI, then WP doesn’t work any more :(
- Face Recognition 5 min read - Sep 19, 2023 - by Phlash Phil recently noticed that Google Picasa has been discontinued since 2016 on all platforms, and he’s heavily invested in the facial recognition capability (over 200 people tagged in 20000+ photos over several years), with increasing likelihood that it will stop working at any point. Time to rescue the knowledge and find alternative technology.
- Obihai OBi110 Andrews & Arnold VoIP Setup 4 min read - Jun 21, 2023 - by Phlash Configuring a VoIP bridge for A&A use
- Debian to Andrews & Arnold L2TP Setup 7 min read - Jun 9, 2023 - by Phlash Connecting my server to a public IP elsewhere..
- GEO Trio II In-Home-Display Insides 6 min read - Nov 6, 2021 - by Phlash I’d like to build my own modules for this extensible display..