Elliot’s Extras

Posted on 2023-09-14 [Thursday] by Jay Jay

I’ve started a “second channel” on YouTube for long and unedited content: Elliot’s Extras.

First comment, lolz

Posted on 2023-09-10 [Sunday] by Jay Jay

I’ve been going at In The Lab With Jay Jay for a bit over three months now, and I finally got my first comment on YouTube that wasn’t from a friend of mine:

Do you know they based lester crest from gta v on you?

You literally have the same look and the setup is similiar to his in game lol.

Data formats including YAML

Posted on 2023-09-10 [Sunday] by Jay Jay

I finally got around to reading about YAML at Wikipedia. Worth doing if you use YAML anywhere and haven’t read the YAML page yet.

The Wikipedia article links to the official website: yaml.org, which is good fun. It’s written in YAML! :D

If you’re interested in data formats and markup languages here’s some other reading on the subject:

cathode ray dude dot com

Posted on 2023-09-10 [Sunday] by Jay Jay

This guy, Cathode Ray Dude [CRD], does some fun stuff. He’s on the web via HTTPS at gekk.info and HTTP at www.cathoderaydude.com.

Network outage

Posted on 2023-08-21 [Monday] by Jay Jay

I’m in the process of moving some of my web systems to new servers. The blog.jj5.net has been completed, svn.jj5.net is a working progress, and some of www.jj5.net is broken until I can get around to fixing that too. This outage will manifest as some images which won’t load in blog posts. I’m sleepy now, so I’ll try and fix this tomorrow when I wake up.

blog.jj5.net

Posted on 2023-08-19 [Saturday] by Jay Jay

I’ve been meaning to make this change for a while now, and finally got around to it this evening.

I started blogging at blog.jj5.net back in November 2003 and continued through to May 2005. After that I stopped blogging for a while, but I started again at progclub.org in August 2011.

The ProgClub blog was imagined to be a group blog, my plan when I set it up was to have all the ProgClub members have an account on the blog, but that turned out to be a pretty poorly received idea. Eventually, and for a long time now, it has just been me (your host, jj5) over on the ProgClub blog.

Since this has become a personal blog, I figured it was time to move it from ProgClub back to blog.jj5.net, where it all began.

The transition should be seamless, old links should be properly redirected, old logins should continue to work, but if you run into any problems please let me know.

New look

Posted on 2023-07-28 [Friday] by Jay Jay

After around 12 years with a completely unreadable look and feel I have finally bowed to pressure and switched my WordPress theme over to something sensible. I’m using the Twenty Eleven theme, which is what the old unreadable theme (known as OldSkool) was based on. This change is as a courtesy to my readers, who I do actually value. :)

Early Content #2: Scope Test | Learning Electronics In The Lab With Jay Jay

Posted on 2023-06-17 [Saturday] by Jay Jay

This post is part of my video blog and you can find more information about this video on this show’s homepage which is here.

You can support this channel on Patreon: patreon.com/JohnElliotV

This video is just me testing the operation and recording of my MSO5074 scope and my signal generator.

Thanks very much for watching! And please remember to hit like and subscribe!

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EXAR XR2206 Signal Generator