https://curlybracket.co.uk/ Recent content on Ben Pye Hugo -- gohugo.io en-GB Sun, 07 Oct 2018 18:07:00 +0000 https://curlybracket.co.uk/blog/running-alpine-linux-on-digital-ocean/ Sun, 07 Oct 2018 18:07:00 +0000 https://curlybracket.co.uk/blog/running-alpine-linux-on-digital-ocean/ As you may have seen, Digital Ocean have recently added support for custom images 1. I have been using Digital Ocean for a long time to run various services for myself and friends and during this time I have been using Ubuntu. I have no issue with running Ubuntu however most services I run now are running within their own container and using a heavy distro for the host OS makes little sense. https://curlybracket.co.uk/blog/coreclr-on-arm/ Tue, 14 Jul 2015 01:05:00 +0000 https://curlybracket.co.uk/blog/coreclr-on-arm/ Earlier today I got a C# hello world running on Ubuntu 14.04, on a Raspberry Pi 2. Sure this has been possible for a long time with Mono, the significance is that I was running the hello world with CoreCLR. This is the first time on Linux for ARM CoreCLR has worked, though a lot of the work was done thanks to Windows supporting ARM. This code is still yet to be merged, and it doesn’t do much more, stack unwinding is broken which is needed for a lot of things, but it’s a big step. https://curlybracket.co.uk/blog/fpga-clock/ Wed, 27 Aug 2014 01:25:00 +0000 https://curlybracket.co.uk/blog/fpga-clock/ I have recently been learning how to use and apply FPGAs. I have some new old tubes coming, this time VFDs, and the obvious project is a clock. I have implemented a clock before, though it was with an MSP430, this time I have decided to implement a clock using an FPGA. I’ve had the board sitting around for a while so it was time I finally did something. Currently I have the basic logic implemented, but as I don’t have the displays here can’t implement the multiplexing functionality.