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Published 4 February 2020
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electronics
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node
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spi
I wrote this a while ago (on 15 Dec 2014, according to GitHub) but for some reason I never wrote about it or shared it really. It's a solution for using SPI with the MCP3008 ADC chip & a TMP36 analogue temperature sensor.
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Published 3 February 2020
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Since I first discovered dev.to as a viable blogging platform (or I as I like to think of it, MySpace for Programmers), I've been migrating my blog posts. Initially, and until today, that looked like this.
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Published 24 January 2020
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career
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beginners
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mentalhealth
I just read an interesting post, "Become a mature developer, not a senior developer" by Daniel Irvine in which he encourages you to become a mature developer, not a senior developer.
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Published 22 January 2020
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linux
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bash
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shell
Perhaps this will be the smallest snippet I've ever posted, and yet, one of the most useful. If you have a script that you want to be able to invoke from anywhere and yet not worry about relative paths, use this.
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Published 22 January 2020
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So, almost a week ago, for some reason, I took a proper look at dev.to, having seen it appearing more and more around the web. I tweeted about it as it essentially made me think of MySpace, except, for programmers. I gave it a go, and realised, not only was this easier than having to create new markdown files in GitHub for my current blog, but due to how it works, I could reach a lot more people with my content this way.
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