Daniel's Weblog

My crowd has been enjoying the app BeReal recently.

The L Train Brass Band is a community brass band from Brooklyn open to all.

I’ve been using the iOS Scriptable app and the fantastic Weather Cal widget to have an information rich homescreen for a while now.

Three years ago I soldered my first custom-designed PCBs, a set of ESP8266-powered temperature sensors for my apartment!

Photo books I have owned / borrowed in no particular order. 9780947322120 Dupain’s Sydney by Jill White 9781884167058 RFK Funeral Train photographs by Paul Fusc 9780999243008 Just Yannis by Harold Evans and Yannis Behrakis 9780525560029 Of Love & War by L…

A living document of diagrams and notes on various Unix tools.

“Fun isn’t something one considers when balancing the universe collecting sea shanties, but this does put a smile on my face”.

In the beginning there was nothing except a business process (some piece of software that made money) and a database for logs and a few configurable values.

GaiaGPS is my my app of choice when hiking, kayaking, and exploring the outdoors in general.

Things that should be simple.

Extending ls to display the date each output file was created in a git repository.

Opening Signal Desktop Database on MacOS: I’ve seen some conflicting processes out there, here’s what worked for me in May, 2020: Download and install DB Browser for SQLite but note that YOU MUST download the version specifically built with SQLCipher supp…

It turns out that I wasn’t the only one who created an Instagram account for pictures of COVID-19 related signs.

A list of the Restructured Text Syntax and Sphinx roles that PyCharm supports in docstrings.

Flask is a microframework for Python based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2 and good intentions.

A small recipe for combining WTForms and the Quill text editor: I’m using Flask-WTF so this isn’t exactly the same as a pure WTForms implementation, but it should get anyone else on the right track.

Temperature Sensors Part 5: Assembling PCBs & Future Plans I finally received my printed circuit boards in the mail, time to assemble them.

Need more pens, paper, and other writing products?

Temperature Sensors Part 4: PCBs and Programming This is post number 4 in a series describing my DIY temperature and humidity sensors.

Do you like planes?

There’s something magnetic about classic railway logos and graphics, they’re bright, they’re clean, they’re bold, and many have been around for decades!

Temperature Sensors Part 3: Sensor Hardware This is post number 3 in a series describing my DIY temperature and humidity sensors.

Temperature Sensors Part 2: Grafana Recording temperature into InfluxDB isn’t very useful if I can’t visualize it.

Temperature Sensors Part 1: Influx DB This is part 1 in a series describing my DIY temperature and humidity sensors.

Since I graduated my student discount expired and I don’t want to pay $7 a month to Github for private repositories.

Or: things I have implemented multiple times while developing in Angular 2 / Angular 6.

It’s gotten very warm the past few days… lets take a crack at adding some logic to my “dumb” window AC unit to keep things cool!

You know what I don’t have any practical use for?

The Campus Labs system Lehigh is using for student engagement is called “LINC” and it sucks.

A mourning dove nested above our doorway recently!

In the grand tradition of Marching 97 April Fools Day events, Veronica & I put together a scavanger hunt around Lehigh’s campus.

Hugo is installed on webserver, blog exists in git repository in /home/djbeadle/blog.

Mostly for my own future reference: 13" Retina MacBook Pro 2014 2.8 GHz Intel Core i5 16 GB RAM, 256 GB Hardware Tinkering Stuff: CoolTerm: Simple graphical terminal emulator SerialTools: Available on the Mac App store.

Some config settings, nothing crazy but it took me a while to figure out.

General Reference: Roomfinder: A map of all the building and rooms on campus with a search tool. https://gisweb2.cc.lehigh.edu/roomfinder/default.aspx Computer Lab usage Want to see if there’s any free space in a computer lab?