https://kapie.com/Technology, Productivity and Automating Everything. 2026-05-06T14:41:36+00:00 Ken Hughes https://kapie.com/ Jekyll © 2026 Ken Hughes /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2025-07-21T21:00:00+00:00 2025-07-21T21:00:00+00:00 https://kapie.com/z80-to-ai/ Ken Hughes

From Assembly Code to AI Pipelines: How I Went from AI Coding Skeptic to True Believer An 8-Bit Foundation My journey with computers began in an era when every byte mattered and every clock cycle was precious. I cut my teeth on Z80 and 6502 processors, building minimal computers from scratch where understanding the hardware wasn’t just helpful—it was essential. In those days, you didn’t just ...

2024-12-10T19:15:41+00:00 2024-12-10T19:15:41+00:00 https://kapie.com/virtual-disk-lib-workflow/ Ken Hughes

As part of documenting the process of developing this Virtual Disk Lib I wanted to have some docs in the repo that I could use to cover the steps. So I wanted to have a docs folder where I could have a markdown file for each step. However, it seems that a GitHub README.md file cannot pull in content from other files in the repo. To get around this I set up a docs folder in the repo, and added ...

2024-12-10T18:21:41+00:00 2024-12-10T18:21:41+00:00 https://kapie.com/virtual-disk-lib/ Ken Hughes

A few months ago I was working on some VHD and VHDX file format conversions (because Azure Disks can only be created from ‘Fixed VHD’ format disks). There were/are a few challenges to this, so I thought I’d write a library for it, and show how to work through the problems. I’ll document the process and thinking here. It’ll be written in C# (at least initially, I may add Python, Golang, Rust to...

2024-10-23T18:00:00+00:00 2024-10-23T18:00:00+00:00 https://kapie.com/Wordpress-To-Jekyll/ Ken Hughes

After having left Barracuda earlier this month I finally have a bit of time on my hands, so I thoght was about time I got around to migrating thias blog from Wordpress to a bunch of Markdown files and a static site generator. Making the Switch: Moving from WordPress to Jekyll After having left Barracuda earlier this month I finally have a bit of time on my hands, so I thought it was about tim...

2024-02-07T21:15:41+00:00 2024-02-07T21:15:41+00:00 https://kapie.com/7-Years/ Ken Hughes

Wow!! 7 years since my last blog post. Time to rectify that…