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Friday, 29 August 2025

Getting UTF-8 from PHP and MySQL

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This turned out to be more annoying problem than I expected.  Consider this MySQL table:-   MariaDB [demo]> show create table users\G ***...
Wednesday, 14 August 2024

JavaScript Destructuring Assignment Gotcha

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This wasted several hours on me. I'll explain exactly what I was doing that got me into this mess a little later, but the bare essence o...
Thursday, 25 April 2024

try...catch...finally - Not (quite) what I expected

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Consider this bit of code:- def foo(): print("Called foo()") try: print("In the 'try' block") ...
Wednesday, 3 April 2024

Antenna Experiments - Reprise

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This is a follow-up to my earlier earlier post : if you haven't already done so, I suggest reading that one first. I caved and bought a ...
Sunday, 17 March 2024

Avoiding Arduino millis() Rollover Bugs

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If you are using the millis() function to measure time on an Arduino, you might be tempted to do something like this:- unsigned long time...

Antenna Experiments

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Let me state from the outset that my knowledge of RF and antenna design is very rudimentary. I basically consider it to be black magic. Wit...

Rotary Encoders

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These are wonderful little things. I got to thinking a bit about exactly how they worked, so I hooked one up to a power-supply and an oscil...
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