Alex Meub

Ever since I discovered it years ago, I’ve loved Progress Quest.

I recently made the switch from Xfinity to Quantum Fiber and I couldn’t be happier.

I made a retro-inspired dock to charge my Playdate out of a Raspberry Pi case.

A few years ago, I built a Wi-Fi-controlled Nerf turret, but I never got around to creating a proper build guide for it.

Last summer, I was inspired by a computer that was built inside of a toaster that I saw at a local computer recycling store.

I wanted to add more hauling capacity to my bike and was looking for something compatible with my Yepp rear rack.

The Yoto Mini is one of my favorite products.

When I first got my 3D printer, I built an enclosure to protect it from dust, maintain a consistent temperature, and minimize noise.

My 6-year-old is obsessed with jokes and often asks me for any new ones I’ve heard.

I’ve had a heater in my home office this winter and I’ve wished it could turn on/off automatically based on whether or not I was in the room.

Earlier this year, I decided to build a 3D-printed Nerf turret with streaming video that is fully controllable from a web browser.

I love creating tiny programs that solve actual (often minor) problems.

Last week I switched to a new nozzle on my Prusa MK3S 3D Printer and made the mistake of not watching the first layer of the print.

I received a Traeger Tailgater as a gift last year and I love it.

Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast!

I wrote this post on November 23rd, 2020 when I reported the issue via Craigslist’s vulnerability disclosure process.

«««< HEAD Smart outlets are great.

Four years ago, I wrote about using Amazon Dash buttons as simple hackable Wi-Fi buttons.

At my company, it’s a tradition to say “ring the bell” when we sign a new customer, release a new feature or receive other positive news, big or small.

I’ve been into playing games on my RetroPie machine lately and thought it would be cool to build an arcade stick (also called a “fight stick”).

I work in downtown Portland and see a lot of people getting parking tickets every day (parking is one of the reasons I ride my bike to work).

If you host your website on Amazon CloudFront or directly on Amazon S3, you may not currently have it configured to support IPv6.

I’ve found myself more often using web apps instead of dedicated desktop applications at work.

I’ve owned a Weber Q 1000 for many years and always loved this little grill.

We were trying to launch a new captive portal page design for a customer and we ran into the strangest issue.

Setting up SSL is a pain.

I love Craigslist, but trying to buy certain things (like Subarus in Portland) can be ridiculously competitive.

Heads up!

After nearly 6 months of looking, my wife and I finally bought a house in Portland.

I recently migrated my blog to Jekyll and wanted to use the s3_website gem to deploy it.

The Amazon Dash button is about a year old and has proven to be a pretty great hackable internet-of-things button.

I thought it would be fun to recreate the iconic Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in Photoshop.

My wife and I love to camp on the Oregon coast and the summer is always the best time to go.

Setting material rewards for myself has helped me stay motivated and focused on important long-term goals.

I’m not really a fan of bumper stickers in general, but I saw this one on the freeway a few days ago and I couldn’t stop laughing: It’s of course making fun of the Earth Stickers that are so common everywhere (especially in Portland): If you’re curious, t…

In my opinion, the UI design of Windows peaked in the late 1990s.

Dropbox is a fantastic service.

The Moscow mule is one of my favorite cocktails because it’s simple, easy to make and delicious.

Application Installs Homebrew is a ridiculously good package management system for OSX.

Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service.

This post is a summary of the different values of the CSS position property.

While the checked attribute of an HTML checkbox can only have two values, the checkbox itself can actually have up to four different visual states: checked, unchecked, disabled and indeterminate.

JSDOM is an awesome node package for simulating a browser environment.

I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks.

The CSS Box Model is used to describe how items are rendered (in boxes) from elements in the document tree.

This is a list of the top five computer games ever made.

My entertainment setup is relatively simple but I’m happy with it.

Short of leaving your wireless network open, the Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) vulnerability is probably the single biggest security hole on any home wireless network.

I developed a set of scripts that scrape Amazon’s product pages.

On a removeChild function call, Internet Explorer complains: “Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely?”.