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Obligatory legalese: emitting radio waves, even low-powered and/or short-lived may not be permitted in your jurisdiction.

RP2350 is the dual-core microcontroller at the heart of Raspberry Pi Pico 2 boards.

I recently bought a Raspberry Pi Pico W, which comes with a Bluetooth module, along with an HC-SR04 ultrasonic rangefinder.

As the self-appointed IT director of my new family, I was tasked with finding the best solution to easily upload, back up, and share pictures and videos of our newborn daughter.

Chilkoot Trail, a 53-km trail from Dyea, Alaska to Bennett, BC, was the main way for gold rush prospectors in late 1890s to get to Klondike River in Yukon.

A friend of mine was trying to get hired as a software developer, so he asked me about resources to hone his skills and practice for programming interviews.

The price of real estate in Vancouver has been rising for years, and if you’re not the gambler type, renting has never been a more financially sensible option.

After over one year of working on my side project and trying to monetize it, I’ve decided to call it quits and share my journey and the source code with the community (Github).

When I started programming circa 2000 as a hobby, all I cared about was how cool my programs and games were.

For part 1 click here!

Obligatory legalese: this post is about my own personal finance in Canada, not general financial advice.

For a long time, I was dismissing suggestions to try out mindfulness meditation.

As I was waiting to start a new job in January, I took on a consulting gig to implement a scalable web crawling/scraping system for a company in Vancouver.

Last month, I had a 11-day trip to Iceland, and spent most of it taking a road trip around the country.

About a year ago this time, I joined a Toastmasters club, and today, I had my 9th prepared speech out of the 10 you need for your first title (i.e.

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are a revolutionary way to bring education to the masses, and make the collective human knowledge accessible.

I came across an admittedly biased interview on CNET, where an executive VP of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (an online advertising industry advocacy group) was resorting to vitriolic ranting and name-calling against adblockers.

Last year, when I received an email asking me to review a book about MongoDB and Pentaho for free, I barely opened the email before marking it as spam; “an outsourcing shop looking for desperate freelance editors?

After hosting a single-page site/resume on Nearly Free Speech for a while, I decided to shop around for a more reliable host so I can start blogging.