Category Archives: Technology
Dynamic Autocomplete with AlpineJS and (Almost) No Code
I’m in the process of adding some new features to a web application I created several years ago. It’s an app that makes it easy for a handful of non-technical users to manage users and groups in a third-party system. It’s a multipage app that doesn’t use a lot of JavaScript, but where it does […]
I’m An Engineer
From time to time when I was a kid, my grandparents would take me to Santa’s Land, a Christmas themed theme park in southern Vermont. On one of those trips, I remember buying a mechanical Christmas tree toy in the gift shop. The tree was made of three aluminum triangle-ish segments that were mounted to […]
I Finally Figured Out Why There’s an Ethernet Port on the Back of Some Cable Boxes
As I’m about to drop cable TV in an effort to start saving money on something I hardly use, I got curious about the Ethernet port on the back of my set top boxes. When we moved about four years ago, the tech doing the install in the new house looked at my existing box […]