Warm Paws for Coders

Simon Brown • December 28, 2024

Heated Mouse Mat

If, like me you have cold hands then a heated mouse mat is essential. Before I bought this I had two options - either wear thin arthritis gloves or heat the room to a silly temperature.

Anyway, this popped up on Facebook with an Amazon link, so I bought one. This now makes coding even more of a pleasure as not only are my hands warm, the heat also rises onto my face and head so it's bye-bye cold.

It's not a substitute for a two week holiday in the Caribbean, but possibly the next best thing.

Here's a Amazon Link, if it fails, just search for Heated Mouse Mat.

Why didn't I think of this a few years ago?

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SDR Television Beta #4

By Simon Brown • June 30, 2025

Unexpected Beta #4 I wasn't planning to release another beta, but there was an error with a download link in the Blog port for Beta #3, also a few worthwhile improvements have been made, so here I go.

SDR Television Beta #3

By Simon Brown • June 18, 2025

Major Change Scroll down to the SDR Radio information. The bandwidths available for SDR Television when using a Pluto / LibreSDR have changed.

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No More Wireless

By Simon Brown • May 13, 2025

After too much grief, I've decided to stop using Wi-Fi to connect the small NUC systems in the computer room to my network: DX Cluster (Ubuntu) SDR Server (Windows) User Forums (Windows) These servers are in constant use, causing the wireless transmitter on my TP-Link AX50 to fail. By switching over to a wired network there's less demand on the wireless transmitter and the whole network has become far more reliable. In future I will only use Wi-fi when there's no alternative. I'm keeping a spare router ready just in case the AX50 fails.