Shadow boxes deserve a shadow... right? Well, if there's a shadow, there has to be some light! That's what I've been working on; adding a little intelligent lighting to my shadow boxes! But, I've also been going crazy in the kitchen with some lights around the cabinets.

The world we live in is congested with controversy; left-vs-right, masks-vs-maskless, us-vs-them. So many arguments, one thing that we don't need to argue about is that there are parts of the U.S. that don't have much access to water, and that there are parts of the U.S. that also face some real challenges with wildfire.

So if you're gonna use Python to help bring photos from youth together; how, exactly, do you do it? This article will look at how we're using Lychee, Python, FastAPI, and React.js to make an ultra-simple, highly effective photo upload service for a youth conference.

We know that I don't like to do anything that computers can do for me. We also know that I like Python, and am not a huge fan of Java. So how am I going to get PlantUML integrated into my blog without actually needing to install the Java packages? Let me show you...

A step back down memory-lane, I pulled out the ol' 'Quiz Board' for a presentation!

How do you get nearly one-hundred high-school age youth to collect nearly as many photos for a competition at a youth conference? Facebook? Google-Drive? How about Python...?

Python's telnetlib library doesn't like null-characters, SEL protocol does, that makes for some interesting challenges.

When it comes to wrapping Christmas gifts, I've used wrapping paper, tissue paper, even newspaper. This year, I'm going a little further up the chain though. I'm using wood!

My 115-year old house is getting a bit of a face lift. Well... Something like that.

There are just too many cool things to research, and thank goodness for the students at the University of Idaho.