David Mawdsley’s Blog

Reverse engineering Janome embroidery cards

I recently went down a bit of a rabbit hole trying to reverse engineer the embroidery cards for a 1990s Janome Memory Craft 8000 sewing machine I bought.

Ubuntu 24.04 upgrade

I recently had to reinstall Ubuntu on my ageing Thinkpad X260, after the upgrade from 22.04 to 24.04 went horribly wrong.

Local fuel prices

I’ve recently launched a new site localfuelprices.co.uk to display the cost of petrol and diesel nearby petrol stations.

Travels

I’m taking a few months career break to go travelling, which I plan to blog (hopefully more regularly than I manage here!) at https://travel.mawds.co.uk/index.php/europe-2023/…

Adding epubs to Kobo from my phone

I’ve got a Kobo e-reader, which is very fussy about the USB cable used to copy books to it (and even the USB port the cable is connected to). I want to be able to sideload…

Not so smart metering

Python

Raspberry Pi

This project has been a while in the making, and I’ve finally got round to finishing it off (well as much as anything is finished). A big part of the delay was, somewhat…

Easily deploying Shiny apps

Shiny

R

I’m currently running a pilot Shiny web hosting service at the University of Manchester. One issue with the standalone (free) Shiny Server is that it’s not particularly easy…