Peter's DevLog - scraps

NXP has messed up their password form validation

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 10:06:00 GMT

I've been using a password manager for years now, and from time to time this leads to strange discoveries with password validation. They've ranged from crashing the server to simply ignoring valid passwords. I might write this out as a proper article some time in the future, but my latest…

Web frameworks in Nim

Thu, 10 Oct 2019 09:00:25 GMT

Recently I've been playing around with some web-development things in Nim. This was prompted by having to create some simple servers/websites at work, and using both Nim with Jester + Karax and .NET + Angular I noticed that both had their pros and cons. I also of course maintain this…

Making Makefiles

Mon, 25 Mar 2019 09:03:01 GMT

Recently I had to set up a cross-compile build for a project that had to run on Windows (32 and 64 bit) and Linux. The process included getting a couple of dependencies, configuring and compiling with rather long commands (at least on Windows), and then copying all the things into…

Clojures persistent vectors in Nim

Thu, 27 Jul 2017 11:12:33 GMT

One of the things about functional languages which makes them so easy to work with are their immutable data structures. Immutable means that you can't change them, which is why many people prefer the term persistent as it refers to how each pointer to the data structure would always yield…

Interesting new cross-platform GUI toolkit written in Nim

Sun, 02 Jul 2017 16:53:14 GMT

While working with the wxWidgets mapping for Nim we discussed the possibility for creating a cross-platform GUI toolkit in pure Nim using the bindings for the various platforms' toolkits. But apparently somebody beat us to it! Haven't done much more than running all the examples but I must say it really looks…

Zero-rating and Norway

Fri, 23 Jun 2017 00:13:18 GMT

Recently two of our major cell-carriers have introduced versions of what they refer to as "Music Freedom". These services work on the premise that data from music streaming services (a rather short list of authorized services) does not count against your monthly quota of data. Obviously these are marketed as…

Internet of Things with Digisparks

Mon, 10 Apr 2017 16:26:30 GMT

Some time ago I bought a set of Nexa wireless sockets. They come with a remote and communicate over a 433Mhz custom protocol. However since I kept misplacing the remote I wanted to make the solution better. So I got a couple 433Mhz chips from AliExpress and connected them to…

New scraps feature

Sun, 09 Apr 2017 19:41:06 GMT

When I created this development log I intended for the entries here to serve a two-fold purpose. Part of it was to share my projects and show some of the interesting things I come upon while creating them. The other part was to remind myself of how I did some…