Will there be Doom? (What I find interesting in hardware/software in tech Jul 2023)

While my last few posts on IT have been work related, most of these are on hardware and software and tend to be more hobby and fun related.

Hardware links:

• For  Raspberry Pi Pico W fans, here’s a beginners’ components tutorial
• Here’s how to power a pi pico with external batteries 
• Helpful: Raspberry Pi GPIO Pinout
• Pi Car …get in and drive
• For the young person (and not so young):  Computer coding projects for kids and teens
• Pimoroni has good Pi products, like the inky wHAT 
• Cool: intro Making a Tiny Mac From a Raspberry Pi Zero : 18 Steps (with Pictures)
• Robot fans, here’s a pi driven robotic dog with an arm
• Old but cool:  using a raspberry pi with a crt television
• Speaking of old, here’s something on the history of the floppy disk. Sun computing fans, you can relive the glory days of sun workstations here .
• Regarding smartphones, Apple has reportedly canceled the next iPhone SE. We will see. Relatedly, the next SE may get their displays from China. Or not. Non-Applewise, here’s something on  Nokia’s diy repairable budget android. Check out Google’s Pixel fold.
• In other hardware news, check out the best cheap laptops. Chromebook fans, chromebook gaming is here. I don’t recommend any of these devices that allow you to do urinalysis at home. Yikes.

Software links:

• I was playing around with this:  Simple Pure Javascript Countdown Timer. Helpful if you need such a thing.
• If you need names for testing, use this  fake name generator.  Relatedly, here’s a   random number generator you can try. More such things, here: www.worldnamegenerator.com. Here’s some more useful tools: HTML Color Names
• I was also automating my  google calendar with python using the calendar api and that helped.
• Here’s how  wolverine gives your python scripts the ability to self heal. Cool.
• For fans of either of these:  python for lisp programmers
• Something good on rust
• You know you want it:  Fortran examples
• Also:  cobol compiler on linux x86
• More legacy:  IBM WebSphere Java SDKs for WebSphere Application Server traditional V8.5.5
• Here’s how to Start MySQL Server on Windows and Linux 
• If you need webhooks for bitbucket
• For Springboot fans, check out  api spring boot and this: how to create rest api with spring boot. Relatedly, spring boot vs quarkus
• A good reference  pattern for distributed transactions within a microservices architecture
• An interesting essay on  brown vs green languages
• VS Code and makefiles
• Helpful:  Top 10 programming languages employers want in 2023
• Also helpful:  the awesome power of well documented code

Hope something there was useful! As always, thanks for reading!

P.S. Before I forget… here’s a piece on how a hacker brought Doom to a payment terminal. Love it!