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		<title>Ubuntu upgrade and PHP bug</title>
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		<author>dont.want@spam.com (jensa)</author>
		<category>Programming</category><category>Web</category>
		
		<description><![CDATA[I use the command line every day, but I prefer using a GUI. I don&apos;t do much server&#45;stuff, but I have friends helping me out when I&apos;m in too deep. Thanks to the nice UI tools at DigitalOcean, I got through yesterdays update of PHP reasonably well. Here are some notes from the process.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>What happened to electronics consulting?</title>
		<link>https://flashgamer.com/blog/comments/what-happened-to-electronics-consulting-the-last-15-years</link>
		<author>dont.want@spam.com (jensa)</author>
		<category>Electronics</category><category>AI</category><category>Misc</category>
		
		<description><![CDATA[Just before summer 2025, I realized that most my friends that were consulting in electronics had taken up fulltime positions. At the same time I had gone from 15 years of knowing what to do the next 6 months &#45; to having absolutely no projects. What happened?]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Simple car battery monitoring circuit</title>
		<link>https://flashgamer.com/blog/comments/simple-car-battery-monitoring-circuit</link>
		<author>dont.want@spam.com (jensa)</author>
		<category>Electronics</category><category>Sensors</category><category>Solar</category>
		
		<description><![CDATA[For a project running off a car battery, I need to know if the battery has a high enough voltage for me to start my electronics. There are tons of Battery gauge chips out there, but they&apos;re all very advanced and quite expensive. All I need to know is that the voltage is above 12V or I&apos;ll put my microcontroller to sleep and not turn on any peripherals.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Tiny Microchip MCU&#8217;s reference boards</title>
		<link>https://flashgamer.com/blog/comments/tiny-microchip-mcus-reference-boards</link>
		<author>dont.want@spam.com (jensa)</author>
		<category>Electronics</category><category>Microcontrollers</category>
		
		<description><![CDATA[Some months ago I started a project where I needed a microcontroller with just a few pins and a DAC. After some digging, I came across the ATTiny1&#45;series from Microchip. Worked great for the task and after finishing that project I found it&apos;s &quot;cousin MCU&quot; series &#45; the AVR64DD14. Both are very good on price/performance and they exist in 14&#45;pin SOIC packages, making them DIY friendly.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 13:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Finding a reasonably priced distance sensor</title>
		<link>https://flashgamer.com/blog/comments/finding-a-reasonably-priced-distance-sensor</link>
		<author>dont.want@spam.com (jensa)</author>
		<category>Electronics</category><category>Sensors</category><category>Products</category>
		
		<description><![CDATA[For a new product, I&apos;m making a very simple IoT distance sensor. Initially I thought this whould be a quick project, but finding the right sensor proved more difficult than expected. This is what I learned from the project.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>New microcontroller reference board</title>
		<link>https://flashgamer.com/blog/comments/microcontroller-reference-boards</link>
		<author>dont.want@spam.com (jensa)</author>
		<category>Electronics</category><category>Microcontrollers</category>
		
		<description><![CDATA[Throughout the years I&apos;ve made several Kicad reference&#45;designs that others can use as starting points for their own custom boards and today I&apos;ve published a new one for the popular RP2350 sereies, based on the RP2354A that has 2Mb builtin Flash.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Why will two connected USB Type C cables not provide power?</title>
		<link>https://flashgamer.com/blog/comments/why-will-two-usb-type-c-cables-not-provide-power</link>
		<author>dont.want@spam.com (jensa)</author>
		<category>Electronics</category><category>Connections</category><category>Hacking/Making</category>
		
		<description><![CDATA[I just made a nifty little board for use with my Joulescope that will let me plug any USB dev board into it to precisely measure power. But it wasn&apos;t just as smooth as this? It only worked half the time? I was puzzled. Did I forget something?]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Screentime going bananas? Here&#8217;s why!</title>
		<link>https://flashgamer.com/blog/comments/screentime-going-bananas-heres-why</link>
		<author>dont.want@spam.com (jensa)</author>
		<category>Programming</category><category>Mobile</category>
		
		<description><![CDATA[I was discussing phone usage with some friends the other day and we compared our ScreenTime. I almost fell off the chair and the others were seriously shocked as well: 8+ hours of screen time per day? What on earth had happened to me? I was certain that I had used my phone less than average that week, and the next week it was even worse.&amp;nbsp;]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Not so Smart Features from Google</title>
		<link>https://flashgamer.com/blog/comments/not-so-smart-features-from-google</link>
		<author>dont.want@spam.com (jensa)</author>
		<category>Misc</category>
		
		<description><![CDATA[I recently got a new kind of spam &#45; entries added automatically to my calendar &#45; without me ever doing anything. Here&apos;s how to fix it.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2025 14:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Fix for ESP32 serial device not working when recompiling</title>
		<link>https://flashgamer.com/blog/comments/fix-for-esp32-serial-device-not-working-when-recompiling</link>
		<author>dont.want@spam.com (jensa)</author>
		<category>Electronics</category><category>Microcontrollers</category><category>Sensors</category>
		
		<description><![CDATA[I just published the first major firmware update for my radar sensor and while doing that, I stubled upon what seems like a significant change in the Arduino&#45;esp32 integration. This took me some time to figure, so time to post it for others to find.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 20:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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