Rich Infante

An approach for implementing design system tokens in Tailwind, for more symbolic theming

Some of my favorite flashlights, hiking and camping gear

A local-only option for integrating your Ambient Weather station with Home Assistant

For loop-heavy JavaScript code, I've found it can be helpful to use both a combination of async & traditional loops.

The dangers of granting ssm:StartSession permissions to your EC2 instances

A simple flexbox-like layout engine I built for my dashboard project to simplify layout computations.

A satellite tracking widget for my monitoring dashboard project

A lightweight Python module I wrote for my Raspberry Pi to display monitoring dashboards using without any GUI, just the framebuffer.

Using an AWS function to update a DNS record in Route53

I set up nginx and use LetsEncrypt wildcard certificates using the Route53 plugin to secure my home server's services.

How I automatically mount the encrypted RAID array for my home server at boot time, using 1Password and systemd.

Some updates on my original post about encrypted content for this blog

A quick primer on using Express and WebSockets to enable real-time updates in your app or website.

How to design parts and align your print layers to make them stronger.

Upgrading my 3D printer with a new hotend, and dual Z-axis motors

Advice on getting something off the ground

I've been using the Screen Time utility on my devices to help remove distractions

An anecdote about software debugging and incorrect assumptions

Designing and 3d printing custom rings & printing them in metal

An electronics project featuring a dimmable backlight for a movie souvenir film strip

A process to password protect blog posts in my static site, using encryption to keep the contents secure.

An example of how to run models like llama3 locally, and how to use them programmatically

A cheat-sheet for what the VueJS "v-model" syntactic sugar is doing under the hood so we can customize the behavior of our components.

Some thoughts on best practices for keeping code maintainable as a team scales

Customizing the default save location of the built-in macOS screenshot tool and adding it to the dock to enhance usability

Refreshing and simplifying my dotfiles for zsh, vim, and tmux.

A quick trick I've found useful for enforcing that a typescript string enum's values are used as keys in a record.

A uBlock Origin filter providing a dark theme for hacker news

Some details & reasoning for why this was helpful

A few rules I'm using for detecting ECS task failures, for both container errors and non-zero exit codes.

A new RSS feed reader I'm working on, with some plans for cool future social features

A simple example of using Fastlane alongside Expo's Prebuild to deliver React Native apps to Testflight

An ultra-dramatic stand alone enter key for your computer.

Quick examples for getting the hang of using jq in your terminal

Creating AWS cloudwatch CPU alarms for all instances using a terraform data source.

A tool for enumerating DNS records using cert transparency and dictionary files

Introducing a new version of my iOS backup tools, now featuring decryption.

I've overhauled the visual look of this site to be simpler and a bit more modern.

How to wire up external GPIO LED indicators for your Raspberry Pi - such as "online" heartbeat and cpu activity lights.

How I monitor water and electricity usage for my house, using a raspberry pi, an rtl-sdr, and prometheus+grafana.

A digital clock project I'm working on using a Pi Pico and a DS3231 Module

My philosophy on building intuitive user interfaces.

Introducing the 3D printing section of this site, where I publish prints I've designed.

A (non-exhaustive) list of common web security bugs with examples, including XSS and command injection.

My thoughts on constructing useful log messages.

A guide on troubleshooting, and managing strands of holiday lights.

A tutorial/cheatsheet on using ed (a line-oriented text editor) effectively

Save your home videos stuck in arcane formats, using this inexpensive setup

Technical information on how my plant camera operates using ffmpeg and raspistill

A list of sites & services that aren't run by mega-corporations.