Hi! If you haven't guessed from the website title, you are on the blog of John "Jeffrey" Westhoff.
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My new-er favorite thing - RP2040 with CircuitPython
Written Apr 20, 2021 - BlogBack when I did my Model M thingy with CircuitPython, I encountered a lot of difficulties doing I/O. For one, the I/O speed was much too slow for bit-banging anything in Python. Now, you could write some C and call it from Python, but that defeats the benefit of working with Python to begin with. Additionally, hardware peripherals seemed to be destined to be behind in Python. I doubt this will ever change, but a certain recent product seems to offer a bizarre best-of-all-worlds.
Continue reading ↦Running ncurses Applications on Windows
Written Mar 18, 2021 - Projects
A few weeks ago I finally beat the game a few friends and I wrote a while ago, hag. This sparked a desire to get the game running on Windows, the operating system of choice for e🅱️ic gamers.
Continue reading ↦The Unlikely Cost of Hobby Software Development
Written Feb 15, 2021 - Blog
A game I started writing in High School just almost cost me $98, and not in any way that makes any sense.
Continue reading ↦Spidior: Because Regex Wasn't Awful Enough
Written Jan 29, 2021 - Projects
I’ve occasionally found myself wanting to refactor code in ways that current free tools don’t make easy for me. I wish I had something to make it easier.
Continue reading ↦AI Game Sandbox
Written Oct 30, 2020 - Projects
Just a place to mess around with the most current version of my AI Game.
Continue reading ↦AI Game 6 - Recovery
Written Oct 28, 2020 - Projects
I found an unfinished blog post from Halloween of 2017. Given the state of the world, it might be worth revisiting.
Continue reading ↦What I've Done During the End Times
Written Oct 19, 2020 - Blog
I haven’t really worked on anything I felt was worth posting here, but I really don’t want to have gone an entire year with no blog post. So, I figured I’d do a write-up of everything I have done since the world ended, mostly with the intent of it being a reminder that I actually did stuff.
Continue reading ↦Emailing myself in order to convert papers to email to my e-reader
Written Nov 11, 2019 - Projects
I find reading two column papers to be bothersome on most devices. What can we do to fix that?
Continue reading ↦Keep your Python data inside your scripts
Written Nov 3, 2019 - Projects
I’ve been working late nights for an upcoming conference deadline, and over the past two nights between the hours of 1am and 3am I have completed what is probably the worst python library idea of all time.
Continue reading ↦Great Starter HacktoberFest Issues
Written Oct 10, 2019 - Blog
Getting started with Open Source contributions can be a daunting task, but there are many projects that are just waiting for contributors to help out with, regardless of skill level.
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