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Hi, I'm Francis!

My various avatars and profile pics over the years. ## The original (2001) ## Vectorized (2010) ## Commissioned (2015) ## Pixel Drawn (2018) ## Smiling Pho...

A build log about a smaller project that took my mind off of everything.

I wanted to make a "CLI Tool" for orchestrating a "Website" deployment to a web host and I wanted to build and use this CLI tool in GitHub actions.

TIL is a weekly learning event that I like to run with my teams.

To celebrate my grandfather Francesco Gulotta's birthday, I am sharing a translation of his autobiography.

A friend of mine turned me on to Home Assistant which is a wonderful open source home automation platform.

This past April Roborooter turned 21 years old.

I read a wonderful twitter thead about CGI and the birth of the web and this triggered a thought I've been kicking around. > Wasm is the new CGI And to be cle...

I've been softly recommending people start using `1Password` for the past 5-10 years.

(Cross posted from our Open Collective Page.)

This video dates back to around 2010 from an unknown source but remains my favorite.

I nerdsniped myself and made a handy async utility that turns Promises and AsyncGenerators inside out.

I'm building a library to be used on Amazon Lambda and the hardest part of testing a library designed to run in a serverless environment is having a local envir...

I met Connor Hicks through work.

My friend with Gregor Martynus asked on twitter if anyone needed help with github actions.

I'm building a small project with architect a lightweight framework to manage AWS Lambda, DynamoDB and few other services to make serveless web apps.

This year I took some time around the holidays to do some learning.

My Product Manager Skylar asked me today to recap how our product team righted themselves after a year of hardship and they’ve been so good for so long I had fo...

For the second year in a row, for my birthday, I took some time off work to learn some new things.

As of today you can read this website without a web server by visiting dat://roborooter.com.

I wrote this for a 5 minute lightening talk at a local tech leadership meetup.

I decided to build a toy for my son.

I spent a few weeks making an old Serial Mouse work and documenting the Serial Mouse Protocols.

Love and pain and war, all things I missed.

I remembered there was such a thing as a serial mouse and I wondered how they worked.

I asked people on the internet for help choosing a linux laptop.

Serialport turns 9 this year.

This week I'm at the Recurse Center as part of the "Mini 2 Batch".

The Firmata protocol is used for a variety of uses, from home automation to robots.

There's so much about this tv show that I enjoyed.

Someone asked me on a mailing list if I worry about reaching my team's limit in our ability to manage Redis.

I started `streaming-iterables` a few months ago to learn how to use `async-generators` and it was hard.

(This is part of a talk I gave at ManhattanJS of the same name which you can find at github.)

God help me if any of these have a serialport.

I got a new work laptop so it was time to bikeshed about my setup.

I've got a few commits around Node.js's related projects.

Last year Bocoup offered me my dream job.

I wrote a little blog post over at the Sparkfun Blog about how our work on the Johnny-Five inventors kit was guided by our love of the NodeBots community.

A few weeks ago I started maintaining node serialport after a long hiatus.

I made a little presentation, a hack, a spike into the world of the unknown.

Tonight I gave a talk at QueensJS.

"Why is the light in the refrigerator purple?

I hung up my phone and started typing.

I was working on one of our projects when I happened to run across some code that set off my rubber ducky detector.

`FactoryGirl` the oddly named testing tool for database models is something we use a lot at Wizard Development.

It's been around six months since I quit my job as a PSI Analyst.

While working on my pet project for matching tennis partners I decided to make a match history page.

\ Recently, I've had the opportunity to teach the Intro to HTML and CSS course with Girl Develop It, a non profit organization that welcomes all, but focuses on...

We recently added an API to The Winnower to support our new Wordpress Plugin.