Jachin Rupe's Blog

2025 was an eventful year.

For starters, let’s get one thing out of the way.

For years now I have wanted a “dashboard” somewhere central in my house.

The selfhosting Jelu project is going well.

We’re just about done with another year.

I had my first thoughts of wanting to do something with our doorbell a few years ago after we added our first smart home devices and tried to get a Ring doorbell, but it was too bulky to fit on our doorframe.

I just launched the Corn Maze app for the Crow River Winery for 2024 (year 3).

First off, a little bookkeeping.

The Problem One of the crucial features I wanted <much-select> to support is value transformation and validation.

Much Select [Github] Degree Day Dashboard

The Challenge In the life cycle of a <much-select> a lot of events are triggered.

The Problem A lot of Options I need <much-select> to support a lot of options.

Elm Inside a Web Component A Whiny Introduction This is part 1 of a story I never wanted to write.

This past fall (autumn of 2022), I released my first ever computer game — created for the Crow River Winery’s Corn Maze.

I’ve missed this post for a couple of years, which is too bad, I need to write more on my blog.

Matt Gray A friend of mine, Matt Gray passed away recently.

Do we promise that all these movies are good?

2020 Family Pictures We don’t post much on social media, for a whole lot of reasons, but we do take a lot of pictures.

This year we’re taking a break from making a Christmas playlist… if ever there was a year to break the norm, amiright?!

I managed to read 1 more book in 2019 than I did in 2018 and I didn’t wait until May to write about them.

Here is the 10th Christmas playlist.

This post is a lot later than I would have liked, but I’ve held off writing it until I had a chance to finish migrating my blog to a new platform (more on that later).

My name is Jachin Daniel Rupe.

The 8th Christmas playlist is also the biggest, clocking in at 77 minutes.

I finished 25 books in 2017.

This is the 7th year for the Christmas playlist and at this point I was expecting to be scraping the bottom of the Christmas music barrel.

This year got our act together before the 1st of December so you can enjoy a whole month of hand picked Christmas music.

I’ve had my eye on OpenBazaar for quite a while now and at the start of April of this year (2016) it went live.

First off while, I was writing this article, I had Robot Parade by They Might be Giants stuck in my head the whole time.

At this point I’ve bought lots of things on-line with Bitcoin, but I have not been able to buy anything locally (in Minneapolis MN) until now.

How to Setup a Soundboard This article will show you how to map a set of sound effects (I’ll show you how to do 10) to keyboard shortcuts that will be ready any time you need a rim shot, or sad horns or whatever else.

The bad news is I only read 17 books in 2015.

After 8+ years of faithful-ish service I’m ditching WordPress for the great static site generator Pelican, written in my very favorite language, Python.

Getting this together happened a little later this year.

It’s been a few years since one of my personal projects has been ready for prime time, but the Como Barber Shop site finally is, at least, I hope it is, it’s live at least.

The number of titles of books I read this year seems a little light, 30 books in 2013, only 18 in 2014.

Time for this year’s Christmas Playlist.

When I tell people about bitcoin and I want to give an example of something bitcoins are good for today I usually use the example of international money transfers.

It’s been over a year since I last write about my experiences with bit coins.

The Zombie Translator is back and better than ever.

I think I’m going to start writing an annual blog post about my favorite books every year.

It’s getting to be Christmas time again.

Here’s a CD’s worth of Christmas music that Erin and I will be listening to this year.

My girlfriend Erin and I have put together a Christmas Playlist for 2011 of better than average to pretty good Christmas music.

So, while I was on my road trip (almost 6 months ago now) I took some video (mostly while I was driving).

We had to get up early to get our flight home.

I surprised myself, and woke up just enough to mumble “goodbye” to Elysia as she was going out the door (didn’t manage to get out of bed right then though).

We slept a little later than usual (that’s usual for this trip, not usual for me), then we headed over to one of Paris’s premier art Museum’s the Musée d’Orsay.

Got up early to catch our train to Paris.

One of our main reasons for making Amsterdam on of the stops on our trip was that it was the height of Tulip season.