Building and Programming Archives

On a recent Accidental Tech Podcast member special, John Siracusa unknowingly nerd-sniped me when he mentioned adding Dark Mode to his website. This sent me down a lengthy path of improvements and fixes to this site.

Writing the firmware for a NeoTrellis keypad to allow it to send and receive MQTT controls, and dealing with keypad library read/write conflicts.

Introduction to a series about a 16-key remote-control MQTT keypad

I had way too many conference badges hanging from a stuffed moose head. So I built a nice display for my office.

I decided the site needed a visual overhaul, and didn't want to keep hacking the old engine, so found a new one.

Adding a Fully Jarvis J3 standing desk frame to my IKEA desk

A quick, simple rig to film a time-lapse video of snow piling up on my desk in a blizzard.

DerbyCon 2013 - Apple TV and Raspberry Pi Slides

My HVAC system is constantly failing. I'm building a system to closely monitor temps so I can catch failures earlier. After only a couple days with rough prototypes I'm already learning something useful.

VPNs which require 2-Factor Google Authenticator codes are a pain to start up in Tunnelblick on OS X. Here's a script to make it easier.