Day 2 of organizing my projects: things I’ve built a bunch of times

Up until yesterday, I don't think I've ever tried to organize my projects or seriously go through them and see what was what. As I've been digging into my code, I've found a few things that I've build several times. It's interesting to me that I'm consistently interested in solving the same problems. Here are …

SacMusic throughout the years

I'm still deciding what I want to do with SacMusic. I'd like to make it a self-service platform for hosts, but it's a matter of priorities. My main priority right now is throwing my personal projects up on GitHub. I was combing through my computer today looking for old projects and putting them all in …

Pi Background Generator: officially thrown over the wall

It's done: the Pi Background Generator is published. You can view it on its GitHub repo. Here's what I did today: More proofreadingAdditional loggingA screenshot for the READMEBreaking apart commands that didn't need to be connected by && and putting them on new linesEnabling the user to change the container_name with an environment variableA README …

The code for the Raspberry Pi background generator is DONE

Back in April, I wrote a script that would generate a background image on my Raspberry Pi with countdowns to an array of events. After building it, I wrote a long blog on what I did and how I set it all up. On round 3 of proofreading, I realized, "This is way too complicated." …

Thanksgiving 2021 in front of a code editor

I have a holiday tradition. I spend almost all of my holidays in front of a code editor. I had really hoped to change that when I was scheduled to start a full-time job in Sac in March 2020, but things didn't go as planned with COVID 19. Bakersfield Technology Anyway, I started by working …

CSS performance characteristics on different devices in Chrome

CSS feels like a well-understood problem in 2021. The differences in implementations between browsers has narrowed substantially. Internet Explorer is no longer supported by most teams, and Edge is now based on Google's Chromium, which is the open-source upstream of Chrome. Chrome, Edge and Firefox now all have automatic updates, which has reduced the need …

Looking forward to coding again tomorrow

I've been living at my parents' house during the pandemic. Also during the pandemic, my dad retired and both of my parents moved to Washington. Today, they came back to Bakersfield for the first time since my dad retired. I've spent the past few days focused on cleaning. The house wasn't really noticeably messier than …

Consolidating all of my code stuff

I've applied for three jobs I feel incredibly qualified for and I haven't heard anything back. I feel like that means I need to step up my game. The first job that I applied for was a web dev job at System76. That ended up being a blessing in disguise: System76 is an open source …

Letting Node crash

As I'm doing some clean up on the background image generator for my Raspberry Pi, I'm having to deal with errors as I rewrite some of the code. Currently, when it encounters a promise reject, it just gives me an angry message in the console. Unfortunately, without some manually handling in the script itself, the …

Puppeteer containers and CSS performance on a Raspberry Pi

I have a preoccupation with Raspberry Pis. I don't use them as much as I'd hoped I would when I bought a whole pile of them about a year ago, but they really get my imagination going. You can set one up in the corner of your room to do fun automation stuff and just …