Here is a mock up of my idea for the only dial you need on your car dashboard :-)

Rclone v1.70.0 has been released!

Highlights:
• New providers: DOI, FileLu, MEGA S4, Pure Storage
• On disk sync, convmv, --name-transform
• Many more features, fixes and doc updates!

Announcement:

forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-v1-...

Here is a great post on the AWS blog on how the University of California used rclone to back up 5 PB of data.

aws.amazon.com/blogs/storag...

Guide: Sync Unraid or your Linux distro of choice with Google Drive and rclone www.notebookcheck.net/Guide-Sync-U...

Here is a nice article about rclone in How to Geek

www.howtogeek.com/what-is-rclo...

Rclone v1.69.0 has been released!

Highlights:

• New providers: ICloud Drive, Cloudinary, Outscale, Selectel
• Symlink support for mount
• Many more features, fixes and doc updates!

Announcement:
forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-v1-...

I was playing with the newly released ghostty terminal and I read it could plot inline images so I wrote termbrot to play with the feature.

github.com/ncw/termbrot

It renders the image as it is created which added a bit of complication. With mouse control it came out very nicely.

Was wondering how many millilitres in a cup... thanks Google!

Just looking through my projects for 2024:

Started: 15
Completed: 5

I award myself C- could try harder :-(

Completed: 2 software, 3 electronics
Unfinished: 4 software, 1 electronics, 3 blogs and 1 maths

As ever, starting new projects is always more fun than finishing old ones...

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I was trying to work out where my printer ink had got to and got this message from Amazon which I've never seen before!

Attempting to track the package on the Royal Mail website doesn't work and I see using the developer tools that their API is giving 429 Too Busy errors :-(

Just been trying to work out why the rclone binary has grown so much.

Been using a really neat graphical tool to analyse the binary size:

github.com/Zxilly/go-si...

The main culprit seems to be the AWS SDK which is taking 7.5MB of binary space just for s3! Nearly all other backends are under 1MB

I bought a Pimoroni Pico Lipo to run the Mancala Machine as it has USB-C, can charge a Lipo cell, is RP2040 & #tinygo support.

However it doesn't have any mounting holes unlike the Pico.

Anyone have any ideas how to mount it? Or is it Velcro stick on tape again!

shop.pimoroni.com/products/pim...

I learnt something interesting today. If you set `go 1.21` in your go.mod then even though you are compiling with go1.23 it does not apply the for loop scope fix: go.dev/blog/loopvar...

I was under the mistaken impression that it did and wasted a couple of hours before the aha, moment came! #golang

I'm looking forward to this in Go 1.24 to banish all those flakey time based tests. #golang

danp.net/posts/syncte...

Mancala Machine box completed.

I ordered the 3 acrylic sheets pre cut then drilled lots of holes in them. This was a bit nerve wracking but turned out ok.

Nice to see what it is going to look like and validate the construction method (not my strong point!).

Electronic wiring next.

Proof of concept neopixel ring driven by a RP2040-Zero using a TinyGo program. It seems quite happy running at 3.3V which will make battery powering it easy.

I was going through some of my Dad's stuff to merge his electronics components with mine and I found his resistor storage system 😆

So very practical and absolutely typical of the man - it made me laugh - I hope it does you too.

I'm building a gadget. There will be a RP2040 in charge running a tinygo program. Each neopixel ring will have a button in the center.

Can anyone guess what it is?