Ibid finally released!
After over a year of development, we have finally released Ibid. Ibid is a general purpose chat bot written in Python. We've suffered from a bit of feature creep, so despite being a 0.1 release it can...
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View ArticleMigrating SMSes from Nokia to Android
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View ArticleXBMC packages for Raspberry Pi running Raspbian
I recently got a Raspberry Pi, which is an ARM based device which runs Linux. My goal is to use this as my HTPC running XBMC, so that I can move the fileserver out the lounge.Edit: I've moved the...
View ArticleWorking with GPX files in Python
Extracting specific track segments from a trackI have an i-Blue 747A+ GPS logger which I use to track my runs (amongst other things). Afterwards I use BT747 to retrieve the data from the device and...
View ArticleBuilding Raspbian images for Raspberry Pi
I recently bought a Raspberry Pi, which is a credit card sized computer with an ARM processor. I'm using it as my TV frontend, running Raspbian and XBMC. I'm building my own packages for XBMC since it...
View ArticleStatically linked e2fsprogs binaries for Android
I needed to resize the ext4 filesystem of the /data partition on my Android phone and spent ages looking for a prebuilt binary of resize2fs (since it isn't included in ROMs or recovery). I didn't find...
View ArticleMemory optimised decompressor for Pebble Classic
TLDR: DEFLATE decompressor in 3K of RAMFor a Pebble app I've been writing, I need to send images from the phone to the watch and cache them in persistent storage on the watch. Since the persistent...
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