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Where Have You Been?
I've been there and back again. Well okay, not like the Hobbit, but there are some adventures and misadventures to report.
August 20, 2025 by Daniel F Dickinson2 minutes
Introducing Yocto-Doky
Yocto-Doky is a GitLab project supporting Doky, a Yocto-based embedded 'distro'. Doky intends to be suitable for projects with proprietary code, but which still wish to follow their open source obligations.
June 23, 2025 by Daniel F Dickinson3 minutes
1Y 1Q into Return to Work
It's been a successful year and quarter for my return to work effort, and I like to believe I have had a positive impact at the company I work for ‒ Ambient Activity. While there have been challenges it's been exciting to refresh and renew the technology infrastructure and product technology platform at Ambient Activity, with more in the works.
May 14, 2025 by Daniel F Dickinson3 minutes
Experiment: Negative on Electron on Yocto
Daniel experimented with building Electron under Yocto, for work. This turned out to be impractical for them, but he created some useful bits in the process.
May 6, 2025 by Daniel F Dickinson3 minutes
Ucode-based mountpoint command for OpenWrt
Due to an OpenWrt issue, the author needed a version of the 'mountpoint' command. Since the author wanted to learn ucode, they coded a version of the command using it.
February 17, 2025 by Daniel F Dickinson5 minutes
Deep Fried
Things got even busier during the holiday season than I wrote in Busy, Busy, Busy; especially at work. We were quite fried, but we've survived.
January 13, 2025 by Daniel F Dickinson3 minutes
Busy, Busy, Busy
Daniel F. Dickinson has been keeping extremely busy with employment, other technical activities - not the mention the snow removal that is required in Midland - and his self-motivated volunteering hours.
December 12, 2024 by Daniel F Dickinson2 minutes
Deep in Windows Tech
In fact I am quite interested in what I am working on, and am happy to be learning new things. Unfortunately, not sleeping well and other frustrations, have marred my enjoyment of my current circumstances. Still, I will prevail.
August 9, 2024 by Daniel F Dickinson2 minutes
Loose Screws
While it once might have been said that I had a few screws loose, nowadays I am not only getting things done, I am thinking clearly and coherently (except when exhausted of course, but that is to be expected). I've also been too busy to spend too much time on politics or news and all the things that I cannot change.
June 2, 2024 by Daniel F Dickinson5 minutes
Song of natural freedom
A little personal creativity diversion from the technical/professional content of this blog (a bit of a poem about being free)
January 13, 2024 by Daniel F Dickinson1 minute