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.

Computers are so intricate, complex, and finely tuned that it can be scary for young folks to spend any significant time getting their hands on the hardware, and really exploring. What's more, it's not common for people to really understand what parts make up a computer, and how they can be used.

I was very happy to participate in the Idaho 4-H "Know Your Government" (KYG) Conference in Boise this past weekend. Let me tell you, it was an absolute blast! I loved it! And what's more, I think the youth loved it, too.

I've often written about the various bits of project work pertaining to my Engineering Capstones. I'm proud to say that they've made some really impressive steps, and for that I'm both thankful and very proud. But until now, it's been a bit of a mess trying to put all that information in one place. Now, I'm getting better about that!

If you're a nerd like me, you can probably think of your favorite self-hosted application right now. Better yet, you can probably think of all the reasons you love it. You know, one of the staples of a great self-hosted application is its ability to make the configuration your own and do so easily! I've been working on a number of little applications lately and they all need configuration, so I've started setting this up with the help of Python and TOML!