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A couple weeks ago I started working on a pure-Ruby GPIO library for the Raspberry Pi to see whether I could get rid of a persistent glitch I was experiencing while driving the ShiftBrite LED modules. I still haven’t been able to pinpoint the issue but while I was at it I put together some color conversion classes. Since I couldn’t test the libraries on the LED modules directly, I needed a simple way to check that the conversion worked beyond the numbers looking OK and matching up with a few test cases from Photoshop. ...

I recently changed my GitHub username to my name in my continual effort to bring services I care about around to that naming scheme. GitHub is great in that they let you change your username at all, with the caveat that you can only do it once. Additionally, when you switch names, your old account will go 404 and you have to manually update origin’s URL on all existing clones. ...