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Feb. 26, 2013
Home automation with Remoht.us
Remoht.us is a demo I created that parallels in many ways the work I do during my day job: push-based device control and telemetry. Remoht.us a web app and client software that let you monitor environmental sensors (in this case temperature, light and occupancy) and also allows toggling relays. It also uses technology that is accessible to the average joe: Google AppEngine for the UI, the ...
June 1, 2012
The Raspberry Pi has landed
Like a kid with a new toy, my Raspberry Pi was delivered yesterday.
And once I got it home, this was the only HDMI monitor I had...
Can I say, thank goodness the Raspbian distro has sshd enabled by default! I spent probably 20 minutes searching around the house for a keyboard. I don't have a USB keyboard in my house because I haven't used a ...
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Aug. 3, 2011
Qirk: A Cross-Platform QR Scavenger Hunt Game
Update: I've renamed the app qirk - and you can create your own games at qirk.us. It's still pretty rough around the edges but it's finally launched so everyone can try it out!
Just last weekend was the 7th Wooly Fair, an arts and culture festival in Providence, RI. My wife was asked to perform, and I went with her to planning meetings to see ...
June 30, 2011
Mobile Style Sheet: the Latest Blog Improvement
As I've mentioned before, I've made a lot of improvements to the blog engine that powers this site. My latest enhancement is a mobile style sheet so the site looks just as good on an Android or iPhone as it does on a PC.
The content is identical to what is served to a non-mobile client. There's no user-agent detection going on, just CSS overrides ...
Dec. 7, 2010
Lightweight Data Types in Python
I've been working on a Python project where system resources are very limited; as a result, I'm concerned about object overhead. Additionally, the nature of the code requires a lot of data types (e.g. objects that have no methods, just a lot of properties.) Python's namedtuple class lends itself to this use case, but it's not quite as flexible as I'd like ...
