January 22, 2022 - https://nhawdge.netI finally completed a project I’ve been wanting to complete for a long long time. I made a Pie Chart generate with SVGs. You might be thinking, haven’t others already done this? Why yes they have. But it’s like making your own JS framework or CMS, it’s about the learning experience and not the end product. There were a few problems that were absolutely insane set backs. I’ll cover them briefly.
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So you don't want to use Docker for Mac anymore, huh?
First, let's install docker and virtualbox.
brew install docker docker-machine brew install --cask virtualbox Now let's create a "docker machine" using docker-machine. This wraps around virtualbox to spin up a vm (and probably does other stuff).
docker-machine create --driver virtualbox \ --virtualbox-cpu-count "4" \ --virtualbox-memory "8192" \ default Now we'll set up a credential store for docker.
curl -O https://github.
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A few years ago I started slowly transforming my house into a "Smart House".
It started with some friends of ours showing us their smart bulbs and how they could tell Alexa to turn them on and off. I'll admit, I was skeptical of how smart bulbs could be life changing, and it took a few years until I would get there.
But this isn't that story, this is about how I converted my plain ol' dumb fan into a Wi-Fi enabled smart fan for my OpenHab system.
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Recently I was complaining to my boss about how difficult it is learning a new technology. He taught me about the Paradox of the Active User. Basically, the paradox states an active user will try to forego the tutorials and documentation in favor of a trial by fire.
Why is it a paradox, your ask? Well the mentality of the Active User is that they are able to started and moving faster on my… their own.
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I’ve got a cool new Graphic Tablet for Xmas, and I’d like to practice, so I guess I’m gonna try to do 15 minutes based on some random idea, and post it?
Day 1 Inspiration: Carte Blanche
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When I was a senior in college (longer ago than I should admit to) I did a demonstration about sniffing user’s facebook traffic when they were using wifi at my college. At the time Facebook didn’t redirect HTTP -> HTTPS by default and most users were connecting over plaintext.
Since then Facebook has switched to secure browsing by default, and most companies are encrypting traffic in transit whether it’s internal or external.
Read more → about Public Cert Trust Stores in Ruby: What am I trusting and should I be? The internet is scary
I’m not looking to add to the noise around using zoom to work remotely and connect with people during social distancing, but after spending some time on Google I couldn’t find a guide on how to do this. These are pretty much my own notes while I’m prepping to try and host a user group through zoom.
Here’s my “minimal video call host check list”
Let people know what they’re getting into (state that you’d like people to turn on video in the agenda, tell them what will happen during the meeting, ask for their patience while everyone gets used to the video chat)1.
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I’ve been doing IaC in AWS for years now, primarily through Cloudformation and scripting languages like powershell and python. IaC is great, but these tools have some short comings like yaml being very verbose, and the powershell AWS SDKs not handling idem potency for you.
Because of those short comings, I was very excited when AWS released AWS CDK a little over a year ago now. It cuts down on a lot of copying and pasting yaml files like you do in cloudformation, and gives you easier access to higher level language constructs like loops and if statements.
Read more → about Tips and tricks for getting started in CDK (a.k.a. IaC is great! Daheck is typescript?)
In the past year I left my position as a Web Developer to work as a Software Developer. Not only did I leave web development behind, the core languages I use every day changed. I switched from a primarily PHP/Javascript developer to a Python/C++ developer. Changing a tech stacks created a need for me to learn a lot about a new language very quickly, I’ve decided to write down some of what I learned.
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