Category Archives: Technology
Expanding the File System on a Le Potato with Raspberry Pi OS
I have a Libre Computer Le Potato single board computer that I bought during the pandemic when Raspberry Pi boards were pretty much impossible to get. It has turned out to be a great little machine that’s been so reliable that a year or so ago I decided to move some of my most important […]
Simple Image Galleries With Eleventy
As I continue converting my largest non-work site from Jekyll to Eleventy, I keep coming across things that I did in Jekyll that no longer work in Eleventy. One of these is image galleries. Jekyll and Eleventy have a fundamentally different approach to how they handle files. Jekyll splits all of the files in the […]
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 […]