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[NickFitz]

Home!

Finally. Three hours from Excel

I stopped off at the chip shop on the way home

[BR14]

I'm getting too old for this tulipe.

Simple little pic program for an F887 to be programmed via a PICKIT3 (originally) then a PICKIT2 when that didn't work.

That didn't work either.

For some odd reason (probably Esteemed Customer related), the first box I tried to run MPLAB on did very odd things, such as shelling out to another instance when trying to build a project, then complaining bitterly that there were two instances running at the same time.

Being an and dense, I laboured away, even rebooted the box, and it still wouldn't do anything sensible.

In fact it wasn't even running the assembler.

At all.

Moved to another box and lo! verily it goeth like a fecking good 'un.

Well via the now obsolete PicStart Plus programmer, I've yet to try the PicKit2 or 3.

Programs & debugs with the PicKit 2 (obsolete), does nothing sensible with the original PicKit 3, and not much more with a brand new one.

Ho hum.

i think i sympathise, but it sounds like microprocessor voodoo, and only know mainframe voodo.
but good luck, anyway

[BR14]

Home!

Finally. Three hours from Excel

I stopped off at the chip shop on the way home

Bon appetit

[NickFitz]

Bon appetit

Thanks, very nice it was

I'm slightly ambivalent about this new (to me; it's about three or four years old) chip shop. The chips are great, and the fish is also top quality, but his batter is a bit on the thin side, which means although it's nice and crisp at the shop, it tends to have gone slightly soft by the time I've carted it home and got it served up.

But the chips are really very good, so I'll persevere for now.

It's in a small part of what used to be Jessops, the camera people's headquarters and flagship store. But they went bust five or six years ago, and most of the premises is now a Tesco Express, with the surplus space divvied up into smaller shops.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Bright, sunny start here

No goodnight post last night due to admin's server-changing shenanigans, but I was in bed by 22:15, and feel much better for it - I was absolutely shattered after all the London stuff

Now for the final day at ClientCo, and then I'll have time and energy to start experimenting with some of the amazing ML stuff they showed off at the AWS Summit

[WTFH]

Morning all murky overnight but it cleared on the morning walk and is now a blue sky day

[DoctorStrangelove]

It's brass monkey weather here.

Definitely cold, windy, and unpleasant.

[NickFitz]

Petrol station lunch day, due to extra petrol consumption associated with going to That London and back

Although the denizens of ClientCo have apparently been a bit slack about the Friday bacon run over the last few months, somebody stepped up this morning, so I had a sausage and bacon baguette with ketchup. And the team lead paid for it, as a nice gesture on my last day

So I don’t really want any lunch, but whatever; I’ll snack on it later

[DoctorStrangelove]

It's brass monkey weather here.

Definitely cold, windy, and unpleasant.

With additional rain, hail & murrain of beasts just for fun.

[NickFitz]

Home, and BENCHED!

Hectic final day, as I had to take a branch from months ago, merge the prod branch into it (which isn't actually what's in production, that being something like prod-final-latest-6) which resulted in vast swathes of merge conflicts, then try to get it all back in one piece

But I got, if not there, then somewhere near enough to there and was released from my indentured servitude about five minutes early

Now to finally relax and think about what to have for dinner