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Blog, page 31

page 31 of 76

Continuing through the writing archive.

Rants · 4 min

The problems with sending a lot of emails.

Notes on running EveryDayFiction.com: the cost and deliverability headache of sending 2 million daily story emails a month.

#Security#Journal#Web
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Vancouver · 2 min

Intro to Making Puppets workshop on Saturday, December 7, 2013

Intro to Making Puppets workshop at VHS on December 7, 2013: finger, sock, sock-monkey, and muppet-style builds.

#Fabric#Sewing#Puppets#VHS#Vancouver#Hackspace
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Rants · 4 min

A response to Life tracking and Quantified Self movement.

My life-tracking setup: Google Calendar for every event, phone alarms for sleep, and a spreadsheet of daily habit points.

#Journal#Ideas
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Rants · 1 min

How a Greyhound employee stole alcohol from my checked luggage.

Open letter to Greyhound after a Seattle baggage checker confiscated two bottles of 12-year scotch from my checked luggage.

#Vancouver#Journal
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Projects · 3 min

Introduction to Home automation with the Raspberry Pi - Sunday November 24th 2013

VHS workshop on Raspberry Pi home automation: read temperature, motion, and door sensors, log them, and switch relays.

#Raspberry Pi#Sensor#VHS#Vancouver#Hackspace#Tutorial
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Rants · 1 min

BEWARE! ShareMouse, MaxiVista, Bartels Media == Crapwear

Rant about ShareMouse and Bartels Media selling crapware that disables itself behind a paywall after you set it up.

#Review#Journal
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Tips · 3 min

Intro to Security, Passwords

Intro to password security: long passwords, multi-factor auth, password databases, and why to use different passwords per site.

#Web#Security#Tutorial
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Projects · 1 min

Star-wars engraving with a laser cutter

Star Wars scenes etched into wood on the VHS laser cutter as a birthday gift for a friend.

#Laser Cut#Wood#VHS#Vancouver
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Projects · 3 min

Getting started with your Raspberry PI

Step-by-step Raspberry Pi starter notes: NOOBS, SSH, AdaFruit WebIDE, and a Python blink script on the GPIO pins.

#LED#Raspberry Pi#Code#Security#Tutorial
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Projects · 1 min

Quick and easy word clock with a spare monitor and JavaScript

A word clock made by laser-cutting a wood mask of words and placing it over a monitor driven by JavaScript.

#Wood#Code#Web#Laser Cut
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