Many different TFT screens are available for Raspberry Pi's and other microcontrollers such as the ESP32. Most smaller screens cost under £10 and are available from many suppliers. I typically…
TFT Display on a Raspberry Pi
C# and Rebooting a Raspberry Pi
Every now and again, you need to restart a Raspberry Pi from within your application. This is typically done after making changes to the Pi configuration, issuing commands to enable…
Install Dot Net Core on a Raspberry Pi
Once you have the Raspberry Pi up and running with a microSD installed as described here - Setup a Raspberry Pi - you can install DotNet Core by issuing the…
Prepare a Raspberry Pi for GPIO access
Assuming you install the Raspberry Pi version of Debian on your Raspberry Pi, it installs a configuration tool called raspi-config. You run it by issuing the following command: - sudo…
Encoding & Decoding Secrets
Many Helm charts and manifest files within Kubernetes have Base64 encoded strings to obfuscate secrets. The easiest way to encode and decode values is to use a couple of commands…
Updating a Copy Code WordPress Plugin
As you will see, throughout this site, there are code snippets that have been nicely formatted and colour-coded with the ability to copy that code to the clipboard. Initially, I…
Add an NFS provisioner to Kubernetes
For most of my Kubernetes deployments, I use Longhorn for persistent storage. This allows me to have a distributed and replicated storage medium in my pods. It also has backup…
Updating the site URL on an existing WordPress site
Yesterday afternoon, whilst configuring my Kubernetes cluster to use SSL certificates (see Installing & Configuring Traefik with SSL certs), I managed to screw up this blog hosted on that same…
Windows Terminal Configuration
The good old days Until Windows-based operating systems came along, almost every OS was command-line based. DOS, Unix (not Linux, as it didn't exist), OS/400, System 36, TI990, everything. For…