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Nick Craig-Wood

@njcw.bsky.social
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Open Source developer. Spending most of my time on rclone.org at the moment. When the police come to get me I'm listening to dance music. Radio Amateur M5NCW

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Nick Craig-Wood @njcw.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Here is a mock up of my idea for the only dial you need on your car dashboard :-)
A car dashboard showing a "Probability of Death" meter.
Image by ChatGPT.
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Nick Craig-Wood @njcw.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Rclone v1.70.0 has been released! Highlights: • New providers: DOI, FileLu, MEGA S4, Pure Storage • On disk sync, convmv, --name-transform • Many more features, fixes and doc updates! Announcement: forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-v1-...
forum.rclone.org
Rclone v1.70.0 release
Rclone 1.70.0 has been released. Find it in the rclone downloads or use rclone selfupdate to upgrade. Some highlights of the release: New backends DOI FileLu New S3 providers: MEGA S4 Pure Stor...
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Nick Craig-Wood @njcw.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Here is a great post on the AWS blog on how the University of California used rclone to back up 5 PB of data. aws.amazon.com/blogs/storag...
aws.amazon.com
University of California Irvine backs up petabytes of research data to AWS | Amazon Web Services
The University of California, Irvine (UCI) is a public land-grant research university with troves of research data stored on servers in lab environments on about 1500 faculty-research lab environments...
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Nick Craig-Wood @njcw.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Guide: Sync Unraid or your Linux distro of choice with Google Drive and rclone www.notebookcheck.net/Guide-Sync-U...
notebookcheck.net
Guide: Sync Unraid or your Linux distro of choice with Google Drive
Thanks to Valve and Proton, Linux is becoming a much more viable platform for work and play, but first party support for syncing common cloud services like OneDrive and Google Drive is none existent a...
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Nick Craig-Wood @njcw.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Here is a nice article about rclone in How to Geek www.howtogeek.com/what-is-rclo...
howtogeek.com
What Is rclone on Linux and What Can You Do With It?
It's not pie in the sky.
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Nick Craig-Wood @njcw.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Rclone v1.69.0 has been released! Highlights: • New providers: ICloud Drive, Cloudinary, Outscale, Selectel • Symlink support for mount • Many more features, fixes and doc updates! Announcement: forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-v1-...
forum.rclone.org
Rclone v1.69.0 release
Rclone 1.69.0 has been released. Find it in the rclone downloads or use rclone selfupdate to upgrade. Some highlights of the release: New backends ICloud Drive Cloudinary New S3 providers: Outsc...
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Nick Craig-Wood @njcw.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I was playing with the newly released ghostty terminal and I read it could plot inline images so I wrote termbrot to play with the feature. github.com/ncw/termbrot It renders the image as it is created which added a bit of complication. With mouse control it came out very nicely.
github.com
GitHub - ncw/termbrot: termbrot: making Mandelbrot sets more glamorous, one pixel at a time.
termbrot: making Mandelbrot sets more glamorous, one pixel at a time. - ncw/termbrot
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Nick Craig-Wood @njcw.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Was wondering how many millilitres in a cup... thanks Google!
Google Query

How many mils in a cup?

Answer

1 us cup = 14437500000 cubic thousandths of an inch
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Nick Craig-Wood @njcw.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Just looking through my projects for 2024: Started: 15 Completed: 5 I award myself C- could try harder :-( Completed: 2 software, 3 electronics Unfinished: 4 software, 1 electronics, 3 blogs and 1 maths As ever, starting new projects is always more fun than finishing old ones... You?
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Nick Craig-Wood @njcw.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I was trying to work out where my printer ink had got to and got this message from Amazon which I've never seen before! Attempting to track the package on the Royal Mail website doesn't work and I see using the developer tools that their API is giving 429 Too Busy errors :-(
Your package may be lost

We're very sorry your delivery is so late. Although it may still arrive, you can request a refund now.
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Nick Craig-Wood @njcw.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Just been trying to work out why the rclone binary has grown so much. Been using a really neat graphical tool to analyse the binary size: github.com/Zxilly/go-si... The main culprit seems to be the AWS SDK which is taking 7.5MB of binary space just for s3! Nearly all other backends are under 1MB
github.com
GitHub - Zxilly/go-size-analyzer: A tool for analyzing the size of compiled Go binaries, offering cross-platform support, detailed breakdowns, and multiple output formats.
A tool for analyzing the size of compiled Go binaries, offering cross-platform support, detailed breakdowns, and multiple output formats. - Zxilly/go-size-analyzer
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Nick Craig-Wood @njcw.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I bought a Pimoroni Pico Lipo to run the Mancala Machine as it has USB-C, can charge a Lipo cell, is RP2040 & #tinygo support. However it doesn't have any mounting holes unlike the Pico. Anyone have any ideas how to mount it? Or is it Velcro stick on tape again! shop.pimoroni.com/products/pim...
shop.pimoroni.com
Pimoroni Pico LiPo
A top of the line Pirate-brand RP2040-powered microcontroller with lots of flash memory, USB-C, STEMMA QT/Qwiic and debug connectors... and built in LiPo charging!
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Nick Craig-Wood @njcw.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I learnt something interesting today. If you set `go 1.21` in your go.mod then even though you are compiling with go1.23 it does not apply the for loop scope fix: go.dev/blog/loopvar... I was under the mistaken impression that it did and wasted a couple of hours before the aha, moment came! #golang
go.dev
Fixing For Loops in Go 1.22 - The Go Programming Language
Go 1.21 shipped a preview of a change in Go 1.22 to make for loops less error-prone.
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Nick Craig-Wood @njcw.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I'm looking forward to this in Go 1.24 to banish all those flakey time based tests. #golang danp.net/posts/syncte...
danp.net
Coming in Go 1.24: testing/synctest experiment for time and concurrency testing · Dan Peterson
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Nick Craig-Wood @njcw.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Mancala Machine box completed. I ordered the 3 acrylic sheets pre cut then drilled lots of holes in them. This was a bit nerve wracking but turned out ok. Nice to see what it is going to look like and validate the construction method (not my strong point!). Electronic wiring next.
The Mancala Machine from the topThe Mancala Machine from the side showing the 3 layer construction methodThe Mancala Machine from the side showing the switches
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Nick Craig-Wood @njcw.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Proof of concept neopixel ring driven by a RP2040-Zero using a TinyGo program. It seems quite happy running at 3.3V which will make battery powering it easy.
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Nick Craig-Wood @njcw.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I was going through some of my Dad's stuff to merge his electronics components with mine and I found his resistor storage system 😆 So very practical and absolutely typical of the man - it made me laugh - I hope it does you too.
Resistors filed neatly in boxes from my fathers favourite brand of cigarette.
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Nick Craig-Wood @njcw.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I'm building a gadget. There will be a RP2040 in charge running a tinygo program. Each neopixel ring will have a button in the center. Can anyone guess what it is?
Electronic gadget under construction.
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