To get some devices running under Mac OSX I have been using the drivers from mac-usb-serial.com - it seems that the ones I need are now working in Catalina out of the box

Picked up the new mavic mini to test - thinking it might be a good training drone for the kids.

I recently added a running copy of pi-hole onto a spare raspberry pi to test. Moving it to https

Running a local/internal certificate authority - even though it is 2019

I thought that it would be interesting to run up an instance of owncloud on docker. I have several machines I could put this on - but - if I were to use it as a larger server then I want the bigger disk of the NAS.

In the previous post we took a look at akka streams in general. Let's apply that to our producer and consumer.

In the previous post we updated our clients to use a configuration library and to make them somewhat more scala-like. Moving forward - we will look at using them together with akka streams but before we can do that - we'll take a very quick trip on akka streams in general.

In the previous step we created a basic producer and consumer in scala but it was very close to a line by line conversion. Let's try for something that is closer to normal scala - and let's get the config values out to a configuration file.

In the previous step we created a basic producer and consumer in java. Let's try for a direct conversion (almost line by line) to scala as a first step.

Helping out at the stables by repairing some showjumping equipment

Basic producer and consumer in java

This series will work through converting java from the confluent on-premesis course to scala