r0b's random ramblings

Notes on restoring my iPod Classic (4th Generation) I recently got into iPods again.

Overview Explicit Resource Management is a newish JavaScript feature that lets you add tear-down functionality to function scopes.

Working on an internal app platform at work I found a way to iterate a set of events that get fired on an EventTarget.

I recently tooted that I was learning Für Elise on the piano.

I wanted a single shortcut to open a new Terminal so first I had to pick one.

I was posting on Mastodon about a documentation driven design process recently and thought I'd do a post to share the thing I was thinking about at the time and dig into the process and design a bit.

I've been learning about WebC recently and I'm pretty sure I'm converted.

I've been playing around with Deno quite a bit recently.

I recently wanted to host an ical feed for some events that I was organising.

You can use JSDoc to automatically generate a documentation website to fully describe the contents of your API.

A macOS status bar menu showing available OATH accounts ready to generate codes for If you’ve got a YubiKey and you want to quickly get OATH codes from your macOS status bar it’s the app for you!

While wanting to make a quick change to a blog post, I wondered how hard it could be to add a simple "edit on GitHub" shortcut to my site.

At work we have a Coffee Club.

Pointer events are the web's answer to mouse vs touch interactions, so you can add one event and it will be triggered consistently whether you are touching on mobile or clicking on a computer.

Generating and flashing firmware onto an ESP32 can be a bit difficult.

ES Modules is the future for JavaScript.

I recently added monitoring and alerting to my Kubernetes stack to discover and respond to failures faster.

Creating custom errors in JavaScript can be very useful.

I've been quite getting into Nova recently, a macOS-only IDE developed by Panic.

Static site generators are great... as I have previously mentioned, here is how to bundle JavaScript into your Eleventy site too.

Static site generators are great for generating HTML from markdown files.

Quick Array to Map Conversion in JavaScript TLDR const people = [ { id: 'geoff', name: 'Geoff' }, { id: 'helen', name: 'Helen' }, { id: 'tim', name: 'Tim' }, ] const peopleMap = new Map(people.map((item) => [item.id, item])) console.log(peopleMap.…

systemd is a software suite that provides an array of system components for Linux operating systems.

function* myFirstGenerator() {} I've always strayed away from generator functions, they are foregin, different and generally confusing.

Dev agility is all about getting your code into production as fast as possible and turning the time you invested into product value.

alias d1='docker container run -it --rm' Sometimes you just want to pop into a container to see whats in there, run an arbitrary command or maybe avoid something entering your bash history.

I keep needing these commands when doing pi things, so I thought I'd put them here in one place: # Edit the wifi config file # e.g. to add a new router sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf # Reconfigure the wifi on the pi, reloading the conf…

It's surprisingly simple to make a raspberry pi appear as a different mac address on a network.

alias bashrc='nano ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc' I'm that lazy, but I'm quite happy with this.

First you'll want to connect your pi either via ethernet, an actual keyboard & monitor or ssh-over-usb if you're fancy.

alias npr='npm run -s --' I added a new alias to my .bashrc today.

When I was making my Smart mirror I made a webapp to run on the Raspberry Pi hidden behind the frame.

From my experience, jsx has always been synonomous with React.