Jon Jones
@jon-jones.bsky.social
General lurker on social media. Partial to science, technology, trains, London tube & vintage/retro computers. (Z80 is my cat nip) Not worth following.
Honestly: Don't follow me!
He/Him
Honestly: Don't follow me!
He/Him
I once saw a groundsman spend five minutes with his petrol leaf blower forming a small pile of leaves. Just as he was finishing the wind picked up and dispersed them all again. He just walked off.
November 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I once saw a groundsman spend five minutes with his petrol leaf blower forming a small pile of leaves. Just as he was finishing the wind picked up and dispersed them all again. He just walked off.
I rather liked the grey Toastracks 😍
November 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I rather liked the grey Toastracks 😍
I had an earpiece like that in an electronics kit I had as a kid.
November 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I had an earpiece like that in an electronics kit I had as a kid.
No xtank? (I think that's what it was called)
November 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
No xtank? (I think that's what it was called)
And to be fair, it fixed a *lot* of networking issues (especially when cablers claimed to be installing Cat 5 cable but really were installing knock-off Cat 3)
November 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
And to be fair, it fixed a *lot* of networking issues (especially when cablers claimed to be installing Cat 5 cable but really were installing knock-off Cat 3)
Speed/duplex autodetect was well known to be flakey. If you ever reported network performance issues to vendors you were always told to force the setting at both ends.
November 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Speed/duplex autodetect was well known to be flakey. If you ever reported network performance issues to vendors you were always told to force the setting at both ends.
So force the PI's nic to 10/half duplex.
November 15, 2025 at 11:53 AM
So force the PI's nic to 10/half duplex.
Running at 10Mb/s (or 100), many devices struggle deciding whether to do half or full duplex. Manually setting speed & duplex at both nic & switch is the only way to fix it.
November 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Running at 10Mb/s (or 100), many devices struggle deciding whether to do half or full duplex. Manually setting speed & duplex at both nic & switch is the only way to fix it.
Parkrun is about "doing": It's not about time. It's why it's not called Parkrace.
November 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Parkrun is about "doing": It's not about time. It's why it's not called Parkrace.
Photographed from a Canberra?
November 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Photographed from a Canberra?
If I were the bald man, I'd enjoy a free pizza!
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If I were the bald man, I'd enjoy a free pizza!
If you had a collection of bulletins you could display them on a board for people to browse.
November 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
If you had a collection of bulletins you could display them on a board for people to browse.
You could then produce another type of bounds which gives you information on what's happened in the past day or so. Maybe call it Bulletins?
November 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
You could then produce another type of bounds which gives you information on what's happened in the past day or so. Maybe call it Bulletins?
I found the juggling different technologies fun. The challenge nowadays is that each area is just getting so complex. It's too hard to juggle all the technologies to a reasonable depth.
November 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I found the juggling different technologies fun. The challenge nowadays is that each area is just getting so complex. It's too hard to juggle all the technologies to a reasonable depth.
When you're the front end dev, back end dev, DBA, OS SysAdmin, network admin, etc.
November 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
When you're the front end dev, back end dev, DBA, OS SysAdmin, network admin, etc.
If you're a full time dev you can probably cope with it. But I'm only a part-time dev (write something, come back 6 months later to add a feature) and I just don't need that extra hassle.
November 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If you're a full time dev you can probably cope with it. But I'm only a part-time dev (write something, come back 6 months later to add a feature) and I just don't need that extra hassle.
I started getting into React. I could see the point of it (it reminded me of early GUI programming) but I got frustrated by the breaking changes causing re-working code.
November 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I started getting into React. I could see the point of it (it reminded me of early GUI programming) but I got frustrated by the breaking changes causing re-working code.
How's the SIAC coming along?
October 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
How's the SIAC coming along?
Are we going to be seeing you selling some new, unused PIC microcontrollers on Tindie now?
October 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Are we going to be seeing you selling some new, unused PIC microcontrollers on Tindie now?
Have you considered therapy?
October 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Have you considered therapy?