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Peter Garner
Personal blog · petergarner.net/notesprogrammingsystems
Peter Garner's personal blog at petergarner.net covers programming and systems. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Peter Garner's 'Travels with a Pi' series and its follow-on notes. The comments only point to the follow-on posts as interesting, with little detail about the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Pete's web site, stuffed full of stuff about tech, coffee, beer, bread, Paganism, green and environmental issues, and life in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, Slava Ukraini
Most-linked posts?
- /notes/index.php?thisnote=20190205-Travels+with+a+Pi+%283%292 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-23
What Hacker News says?
Thanks! You should get a broker set up first and play around on localhost: this makes it easier to get acquainted with what you can and can't do. Experiment with the QOS and 'retain' settings to make sure you don't lose messages. I did a writeup at https://petergarner.net/notes.php?thisnote=20190811-Lightwei... which should give you some ideas. As regards clients I'd recommend the cross-platform MQTT Explorer https:…
Comment linking /notes.php?thisnote=20190811-Lightweight+Monitoring+System+Using+MQTT.html
on “What are your most used self-hosted applications?”Submitted Travels with a Pi (2018) as a story · 168 points
HN discussionWow! ok .. https://petergarner.net A semi-constantly evolving site, mainly tech, but also stuff for when you need a break from IT...
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Interesting solar power breakthrough in Yorkshire, UK as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFor those who didn't notice, there are two follow-on posts that I also found interesting: https://petergarner.net/notes/index.php?thisnote=20180511-Tr... https://petergarner.net/notes/index.php?thisnote=20190205-Tr...
Comment linking /notes/index.php?thisnote=20190205-Travels+with+a+Pi+%283%29
on “Travels with a Pi (2018)”Submitted The Perfect Cup of Coffee as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNo, I tried Xorg but on the Zero is was a no-hoper, and I must say that the lack of persistent display was a major bugbear to me. However, I kept reminding myself that this was a bare-bones machine that I could take anywhere, so as long as there's a display I can plug into, it works for me. So now I run everything text/character. I did a follow-up at https://petergarner.net/notes/index.php?thisnote=20190205-Tr... in…
Comment linking /notes/index.php?thisnote=20190205-Travels+with+a+Pi+%283%29
on “Travels with a Pi (2018)”Submitted YARWAP – a very early roaming wireless access point (with streamed media) [pdf] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSure! It's gopher.petergarner.net or if you want to see the file collection on the web (it's the same file area) go to https://petergarner.net/gopherspace/index.php
Comment linking /gopherspace/index.php
on “Surfing the Gopherspace”https://petergarner.net Also has a partial interface to my gopher server on the same machine: gopher.petergarner.net
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”I always love reading Gopher (protocol) advocacy articles, not least because I run a gopherhole myself. There are a lot of good reasons for gopher to stay alive, but 3 of the most important for me are; speed - no ads, just the file description and the content; somewhat under the radar - censorship engines tend not to descend down as low as port 70; the content - gopherholes tend to have the unusual, eclectic stuff t…
Comment linking /gopherspace/index.php
on “Why should I care about Gopher?”I picked up a couple of micro:bits out of curiosity and was impressed by the build quality. The after-market eco-system was impressive too, and I wrote a couple of projects to see what I could do with them. My favourite has to be the Wireless MQTT client ( https://petergarner.net/notes.php?thisnote=20220502-BBC+micr... ) which used a bolt-on IOT module card. Prior to that I'd installed a micro:bit in a small leakpro…
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on “A 15 pound computer to inspire young programmers (2011)”