My resume site now generates a PDF, PNG and open graph image

I'm pretty pumped: I added some Puppeteer build time automation to my resume repo. It now generates a PDF, PNG and open graph image on every commit. I've gotten a lot more comfortable with Puppeteer over the past two months, and I've wanted to build this feature for a while. After knocking out the Raspberry …

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." …

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 …

Downloading and filtering Chrome’s history

Well, I applied to work at the United States Digital Service today. While I don't love the idea of living in the DC area, using my coding talents to make the government easier to use is kind of a dream. It's something I actually thought a lot about as a teenager. I had a bit …