Modular Product Code with the OPMC Model
2019-10-18
Software engineering
In this post I’d like to describe the approach to structuring product code that I’ve personally used since the early 2000’s and which I rolled out to the Orion Health...
Controlling a Three-Channel LED Strip with an ESP32
2019-08-18
Hardware
Iot
Today I put together my first circuit and code for driving a three-channel 5V RGB LED strip. This is part of a larger project to put a set of lighting...
Centralized Logging for Kubernetes with Elasticsearch
2019-08-15
Software engineering
Presentations
This evening I gave a presentation on building a centralized logging infrastructure for Kubernetes using Elasticsearch and Kibana at the meetup of the local Elasticsearch user group.
sitemap.xml Sitemaps in Jekyll
2019-05-31
WebdevAnother small thing I wanted to add to this revamped website built on Jekyll is sitemaps.org sitemap.xml support. I did this 13 years ago on the Pebble version of my...
Building a URL Shortener on Jekyll and S3
2019-05-24
Webdev
Cloud
Aws
For my blog and for my CV I have a number of shortened URL’s For example http://u.bren.cc/github points to my GitHub profile. Until now I’ve used a very nice open-source...
Replatforming to Jekyll and AWS S3
2019-05-23
Webdev
Cloud
Aws
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve rebuilt my website on the static blog engine Jekyll and have setup hosting for it on AWS S3 using the static website feature....
Field Recordings from Nan Province
2019-05-11
Field recording
Travel
While up-country in Nan province last weekend we visited Wat Ket and Wat Kong where there were some interesting sounds. Unfortunately I didn’t have my proper rig so these were...
Weird CR10S OctoPrint Error
2019-03-23
3dprinting
I started getting the following error in OctoPrint from my CR10S:
Measuring Remaining Filament on a Spool
2019-03-21
3dprinting
The Internet is kind of awesome. This afternoon while in a taxi between customer sites I was thinking about the next print I want to do and how much filament...
Weekend 3D Printer Upgrades
2019-03-17
3dprinting
Triggered by a number of failed prints this weekend, I’ve ended up making the following upgrades to my CR10S: Replaced the Bowden tube Added cable clips Raspberry Pi enclosure Action...