2018-08-25
Note: This post a bit of a mess because I kept screwing up and being wrong. I am going to leave it this way because I don’t want to have yet another ‘highlight reel’ of an Internet presence. Learning is a messy endeavor, especially when you’re not some brillient mind that “just gets it”. The impetus behind the last revision of the board was current. Specifically current handling. More specifically issues with current handling. Even Read more…
2018-08-15
Initially I was planning on this being a multi-part bitch session. How I don’t like things A,B, and C in WordPress, how this and how that would be better the following way, and so forth. But then I realized that I am tired of hearing myself complain. So here is the summary of my experience: I think that it is just about magical that: some one like me can have a private server connected to Read more…
Over the last couple of weeks I have been migrating from Google Sites to my “very own” server. Below are a few impressions of the process. Part 1 — The first steps Part 2 — The steps following the first steps
2018-08-14
Rope-a-dope I use (used to use) Google Sites. I did so for no particular reason other than I already had access to it. It filled a need. A worry would come up sometimes: “What will I do if I need to migrate to a different” platform. It was hand-waved away. Why would I ever need to switch from Google Sites; Google Sites is a solid a-ok product. One day I went to shovel some of Read more…
2018-08-06
Instead of doing real work I was messing around with Dia to see what kind of perdy additions to the documentation I could create. Well here is the glory that took me almost an hour to produce. To be fair I haven’t used Dia in close to a decade and my new mouse pad realllly sucks. Lets unpack that image in the most logical way – starting from the bottom left and then meandering around. Read more…
2018-08-04
Been working on the software side of things. The goal was to put together a logger for all of the sensor data. For that I had to make logic core expose all of its various values. Not a super huge deal, but had to remember the code base from 6 months ago. Document your code, kids. Below are a couple of screen shots of the qtHMI_SHIM which is my playground and reference implementation for all Read more…