David G. Simmons

TL;DR I built Duckling, a GUI for docling that saves you from having to remember 40+ command-line flags.

What a Year!

TL;DR The venerable Raspberry Pi has been around for over a decade (officially created in 2009) and it has become a standard in many robotics, home automation, and other types of uses.

Wait, what?!?

Having an update brick (render inoperable) your device is a real risk, and even the largest of companies have been known to have it happen.

I’ve been interviewing a lot lately (and no, I don’t want to talk about it).

Archival posts Over time I have written a lot of content for a variety of employers, publishers, etc. and, while those folks may (or may not) still have that content available I wanted to make sure that I preserved it here for myself.

This post was originally published on InfluxData’s Blog Monitoring Discourse We here at InfluxData use Discourse for our Community (you’re a member of our Community, right?

I know it may seem like this happens all the time, but I’ve left Camunda and started a new position.

Arduino HTTPClient Failure I don’t know if anyone else has ever tried this, but I just spent the better part of a week trying to debug this little problem, so I thought maybe I’d save someone some time.

Some background I’ve written a bit about using Camunda to do all sorts of things from automating IoT processes to helping with the management of a Slack community.

Note: Originally published on DZone so don’t forget to give it some ❤️ over there!

I can safely say that I’ve never done this before, but it’s been really fun to do (and surprisingly quick, but I’ll get to that.)

Some Background When I first started at Camunda back in October, 2020 (what was 2020 anyway?)

This is Part II in the series covering a Proof of Concept (PoC) project I’m working on as part of my job as Principal Developer Advocate at Camunda.

Have you ever had someone say something to you that forced you to entirely re-evaluate everything you’ve thought about yourself?

I’m working on this massive IoT project this quarter (you can read about it if you’re interested) which is going to be a big hardware build, lots of software, and a bunch of Camunda Platform BPMN.

A Proof of Concept for Camunda Platform BPMN with IoT Abstract Looking to bring Camunda to the attention of the IoT Community by completing a larger IoT/Camunda Proof of Concept Project.

Look, we’re all different, and that’s a Good Thing™!

This started as a simple post to an internal Slack group.

I get it, I’m late to the party on this one.

It’s easy!

Have you ever fired up the Camunda Platform Docker instance and wished you could do live-calls to the API via a swagger server?

It’s that time of year again.

You what?