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…
2018-08-14
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…
2018-01-02
The Year-end Retrospective It’s been about a year since I started on this project and while the end is in sight, I still do not have a functioning replacement for thermostat I could have bought for $300. That sounds like terribly slow progress to obtain a replacement for a mass-market tchotchke. And in all fairness it is. But wait, there is more. In addition to being terribly slow, it’s also an exceptionally expensive. The only Read more…