There was a project the customer provided only very vague requirements for.
They were also prone for an unexpected changes and the customer was
absolutely reluctant to provide a write-up of them after multiple requests.
I wanted to ditch the project entirely, but the client persi…
I've spent last two days wiring a machine, so no programming post today. I
do not do this work too often, but when I do, it is a relief. It is a form
of art. It is not the same kind of art as programming is, though. With the
wiring, the results are far more palpable and far less …
I have stumbled upon the
short post that
contained the following:
~200 lines of commit message for +5/-8 change @ #FreeBSD:
https://freshbsd.org/freebsd/src/commit/9a2fac6ba65fbd14d37ccedbc2aec27a190128ea
This obviously made me think. Is such a long description necessary? And i…
I have discovered a strange behavior when instructing Zebra GK420t printer
to make stickers containing some text and a QR code. Consider the following
example:
Both QR codes are perfectly fine. They both can be printed with moth
printers, including the trusty GK420t and they bot…
I was able to put the
bee weighter project to some
tests. Some thoughts and insights from the process.
Three rechargeable AA batteries gave out 4V under the minuscule load the
electronics represent, even including the load from the internal voltage
regulator. I was expecting them…
In IEC 61131-3 compatible programming environments, string manipulation
have many inbuilt functions. Unfortunately, sometimes the routines are a
little bit hard to find. Even though it is possible to do a search through
available functions, just searching by name sometimes won't …
In my previous article I
have explained how to divide the memory into equal parts, so called blocks.
I have concluded that to utilize the entire memory, I could divide it into
256 blocks of 16 bytes or maybe even 128 blocks for 32 bytes. Having full
32 bytes seem like the overkil…