This is it... My first non-work-related technical presentation at a conference. It's pretty exciting! It's right in my own back yard, even! I'm presenting at LinuxFest Northwest, 2024!

Recently, I was asked to provide a guest lecture. That was a first, for me, and was very fun getting prepared for the lecture. Don't get too excited, it wasn't anything wild, but it was a lot of fun!

Stand back... electronics are flying EVERYWHERE! Here's some info on those electronics dissection activities that I've been hosting around Idaho.

This little prototyping "hack" was just too good not to share.

Holy cow... did somebody order a whole bunch of 4-H activities? Oh... I think that might've been me.

Those techy, geeks in the audience that use an iPhone probably recognize that the photos they take are in a format that's generally a little... Tricky to use with other resources. Seems I most frequently run into this issue when working on updating my blog with pictures that I took on my phone. I really would much rather use a .png format in place of the somewhat irksome .heic format that my iPhone captures. There's plenty of things online that I could upload my photos too, but who really wants to do that? I'd rather use something a little more "close to home."

I've finally gotten around to getting some basic configurations with my Listmonk mailing list system going. I got started with configurations for the Idaho 4-H Roundup podcast (did I mention I've started a podcast?), but now I'm also getting one started for my blog site. Here's how I added the HTML to get it working here.

I'm quickly approaching the mark of 50 blog posts, which is wonderful! But it also means that finding that "thing" I wrote some time ago is becoming an increasing challenge. So... I need to add search to my blog site. But how? It's a static site, after all, there's not really a "backend" to do the search functionality for me... Luckily, there's some wonderful folks who've written tooling to add just this functionality. Here's how I added it to my blog site!

It's just a garage door, right? It's just a switch, right? How hard can it be to automate it? In this article, I explore the connections between a number of projects which I've been working on for quite some time, now.

Clearly I haven't written in a while. I've been busy with all manner of projects, of late. However, since this will be mostly video and image posting, I thought it couldn't hurt to get a quick article up.