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Back to Mosquitto MQTT for v5

Published on 2026-09-06 by David Norton

Why? My Home Assistant instance started throwing warnings about an upcoming deprecation of support for MQTT protocol version 3.1.1 and migration to MQTT protocol version ...

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Ephemeral NATS MQTT broker in Docker

Published on 2026-05-24 by David Norton

Why? Though I had gotten Mosquitto MQTT broker working and it was successfully passing messages back and forth from Home Assistant, I still had nagging ...

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Ephemeral Mosquitto MQTT broker in Docker

Published on 2026-05-21 by David Norton

Setup It is possible to setup a nearly-stateless MQTT broker in docker, with password security. This required a few steps that were annoying to stub ...

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Victor, a sprite-based SHMUP

Published on 2020-12-20 by David Norton

In 2019 I wrote Viktor, a sprite-based shoot-em-up (SHMUP) drawing inspiration from 1942 and Galaga. (code is here , play it here .) This was ...

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Asteroids in P5.js

Published on 2020-12-18 by David Norton

Back in 2018 I wrote an Asteroids clone using P5.js . (code is here , play it here .) The code was written in Javascript. ...

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