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I 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. Read more → about Making a dumb thing for no reason - SVG Pie Chart

I recently earned my Azure Fundaments Microsoft certification. As a software developer who is just getting started with cloud computing, I found that all the concepts that the certification covered were very helpful in getting my feet wet with Azure and the cloud in general. If youre new to Azure and want to use it for your IT workloads, then I highly recommend considering getting the Azure Fundamentals Microsoft Certification. Read more → about Why I Got the Azure Fundamentals Certification

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. Read more → about Migrating from Docker for Mac

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. Read more → about Making a Wi-Fi Smart Fan (Part 1)

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. Read more → about The Paradox of the Active User

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 Read more → about Thing a day - Carte Blanche

I bought a bag of integrated circuits (IC) from eBay — it is about 1/2 a pounds and contains all kids of TTL, CMOS, Semiconductors, etc. And the “etc” is very interesting. eBay seller — https://www.ebay.com/sch/oblagon/m.html I’m going to go through as many of them as I can and put them on a breadboard, reviewRead more Read more → about Wire Up Random Integrated Circuits

After about a year, I swap out my prototype furnace sensor with a permanent solution, complete with 3d printed case and two temperature probes. I will post a follow-up video once I get some graph data to show the vibration and temperature over a period of time. In a future video, I will cover inRead more Read more → about Is your furnace running?

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. Read more → about Hosting a User Group on Zoom (when it’s normally in person)