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broomhall··on Raspberry Pi 500+
One of the main differences between the ZX Spectrum and Spectrum+ was the upgraded keyboard. The original had the famous mushy rubber keys but the Spectrum+ had an injection-moulded keyboard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum#ZX_Spectrum

So with a nod to both the 500+ and Spectrum+, it's a pretty apt name.

broomhall··on Show HN: I made a HTMX Playground 100% in the browser
I'm not sure about HTMX, but this kind of behaviour is what Unpoly https://unpoly.com/ excels at

I played with it recently and it was pretty easy to enhance a completely non-js CRUD type app and have it fall-back gracefully. Seems a similar concept to HTMX but has a more batteries included / high-level approach.

broomhall··on The Shingle Spit in Whitstable
Yet another alumni. UKC also had the lecturer who wrote the text book for functional programming - Simon Thompson - Haskell The Craft of Functional Programming (I think!). It was used at other unis including Durham.

Incidentally, I now live nearer to Holy Island with it's disappearing causeway, which is mentioned elsewhere in the thread. Would definitely recommend a visit as it can be stunning in the right weather.

broomhall··on USB Cheat Sheet
As an alternative to ffmpeg, GStreamer provides hardware accelerated MJPEG decoding on the Pi. I think there are bugs, though, which makes it unsuitable for some use cases. Here's an example pipeline - https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=1989575#p1989...