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New comment by broomhall in "Raspberry Pi 500+"

broomhall — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 08:03:35 +0000

One of the main differences between the ZX Spectrum and Spectrum+ was the upgraded keyboard. The original had the famous mushy rubber keys but the Spectrum+ had an injection-moulded keyboard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum#ZX_Spectrum

So with a nod to both the 500+ and Spectrum+, it's a pretty apt name.

New comment by broomhall in "Show HN: I made a HTMX Playground 100% in the browser"

broomhall — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 12:58:19 +0000

I'm not sure about HTMX, but this kind of behaviour is what Unpoly https://unpoly.com/ excels at

I played with it recently and it was pretty easy to enhance a completely non-js CRUD type app and have it fall-back gracefully. Seems a similar concept to HTMX but has a more batteries included / high-level approach.

New comment by broomhall in "The Shingle Spit in Whitstable"

broomhall — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 07:33:11 +0000

Yet another alumni. UKC also had the lecturer who wrote the text book for functional programming - Simon Thompson - Haskell The Craft of Functional Programming (I think!). It was used at other unis including Durham.

Incidentally, I now live nearer to Holy Island with it's disappearing causeway, which is mentioned elsewhere in the thread. Would definitely recommend a visit as it can be stunning in the right weather.

New comment by broomhall in "USB Cheat Sheet"

broomhall — Thu, 05 May 2022 22:49:25 +0000

As an alternative to ffmpeg, GStreamer provides hardware accelerated MJPEG decoding on the Pi. I think there are bugs, though, which makes it unsuitable for some use cases. Here's an example pipeline - https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=1989575#p1989...