January 21, 2021
I just recently got a Stream Deck - it's a wonderful tool to automate some of the more boring (read: routine) tasks. Literally with a click of a button I can kick off a bunch of automation. Apparently it can do everything _but_ launch Windows Store applications.
January 19, 2021
As I was fiddling with some automation scenarios at home, I thought of putting the Synology Network Attached Storage (NAS) to good use. That is, in addition to all the photo backup stuff it's already doing. At the end of last year, I wrote a blog post about building a simple system to maintain evergreen notes, based on Hugo, Docker, and, well, that's it - there are only Markdown files in the mix. Evergreen notes in this context are nothing other than a personal Wikipedia of sorts.
December 30, 2020
I had a chat with a friend the other day, and he mentioned off-hand that in his life there is a very unique problem - lack of a short username for their Twitter account. Seems like everything good is already taken, which makes sense considering that Twitter itself is 14 years old. You can bet that in 14 years, a lot of people did get very creative with usernames.
December 30, 2020
Way back in 2018, I coded up a little project that allowed me to record my Nest camera stream in a _very_ hacky way. I wanted to get the raw video off of the camera without paying for a Nest Aware subscription.
December 28, 2020
I am naturally curious about the APIs that the devices in my house use, so when I got an air quality monitor, one of the first things I did was fiddle with the REST APIs that were made available through the device.
December 24, 2020
Some of the more traditional approaches to taking digital notes work quite well in 99% of cases - I think most of the tools on the market are doing a marvelous job. But I often caught myself needing something more, specifically for notes that I wanted to write once and frequently refer to later (e.g. details about specific projects that don't change often).
December 6, 2020
In 2020, it might seem like the art of crafting your own personal site became a thing of the past. Most of the engagement happens on social networks or inside walled gardens.
November 16, 2020
Talk about making some life changes in a short period of time! I am genuinely pumped to be coming back to something that is near and dear to my heart - developer relations.
November 12, 2020
It's the perfect time to drink coffee, sit inside, and code. There was just one problem with that for me - I actually need to step away from my machine from time to time to brew some coffee, and while I was gone, the computer would go to sleep, and I needed to wake it up, enter my credentials.
November 7, 2020
It finally happened - after almost five years of sticking with macOS and a MacBook, I gave up and built my own desktop computer.