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• Glowing Pumpkin Project Refresh

  Posted August 30, 2023  in Internet of Things (IoT), ESP32
  

  Years ago I published a several Glowing Pumpkin projects: Arduino Glowing Pumpkin and Arduino Glowing Pumpkin (Adafruit Feather). Both projects used Arduino compatible devices plus either one of the Adafruit multi-NeoPixel devices or a NeoPixel shield. The shield approach was easy because I just had to solder some male and female headers to the boards and press them together into a unit. My first project used the NeoPixel Ring which required soldering wires and running them into an enclosure where the Arduino device resides.

• Arduino ESP32 Web Server on a Processor Core

  Posted August 27, 2023  in Internet of Things (IoT), ESP32
  The second article in this series, describes in detail how to run a web server in an Arduino project on the Espressif ESP32 microcontroller.

• Arduino ESP32 Running Tasks On Multiple Cores

  Posted August 25, 2023  in Internet of Things (IoT), ESP32
  This article demonstrates how to assign different tasks to separate processor cores using the Arduino platform and multiple core microcontrollers. I always wanted to learn how to do this, but the examples on the web are so full of ads that I wanted to publish a version with no advertisements as a super clean example.

• Gihub's Fake 2FA Warning

  Posted August 8, 2023  in Miscellaneous
  

  Why exactly is GitHub warning me that I must use 2FA for my account when I already have it enabled (and have had it enabled for years)? End of post.

• Simple RPN Calculator

  Posted August 7, 2023  in Mobile Development, Miscellaneous, Flutter
  I started a new project this weekend, a simple RPN Calculator project I'm writing in Flutter. The app will be free and advertisement free. My goal is to publish it on the app stores as well as a web application.

• Eleventy Category Images

  Posted August 4, 2023  in Eleventy
  Describes a solution I implemented in this site to add Category-specific header images to posts. I modified my eleventy-generate-category-pages module to generate additional properties for the header images and some shortcodes to add the image and attribution to the site's pages.

• DFRobot mmWave RADAR

  Posted July 16, 2023  in Internet of Things (IoT)
  

  A couple of months ago, I started planning my Halloween project for this year. In previous years I've created a Candypult (for the pandemic years), a remotely controlled flame breathing pumpkin (Sparky, we call him), and, my favorite, the twinkle light tubes from last year.

• AI Developer Tools in Action

  Posted July 15, 2023  in Developer Tools
  I was doing some coding this morning and encountered an excellent example of AI generated code that I had to share with you.

• Added Content Stats to Eleventy Plugin Post Statistics

  Posted July 15, 2023  in Eleventy
  This post describes some new enhancements to my Eleventy Plugin Post Statistics plugin.

• Batching YAML Front Matter Updates

  Posted July 10, 2023  in Developer Tools, Eleventy
  This article describes a command-line utility I created to do batch add/update to YAML front matter of all of the markdown files in a folder. This is especially helpful when working with static site generators (SSG).

• Updated Eleventy Post Stats Plugin

  Posted July 7, 2023  in Eleventy
  I published an update to my Eleventy Plugin Post Statistics plugin this morning and this article explains what changed.

• Eleventy Filter Parameters

  Posted July 5, 2023  in Eleventy
  How to add parameters to an Eleventy filter.

• Coding One-Handed

  Posted July 4, 2023  in Developer Tools
  I've been coding one-handed since shoulder surgery and I noticed how certain tools made that much easier.

• Updated Eleventy Generate Posts Utility

  Posted July 1, 2023  in Eleventy
  

  When I created the Eleventy Generate Posts command-line utility, I configured the command to expect all of its configuration parameters on the command-line. I did this thinking it would be simple to use, but weeks later I already forgot which command-line options I needed in what order.

• All Things Open 2023 Speakers

  Posted June 23, 2023  in Events
  

  I was looking at the All Things Open 2023 - First Round Speakers page the other day and noticed my name and picture there, how cool is that?

• Fixed Category Page Generation

  Posted June 14, 2023  in Eleventy
  I figured out how to get my Eleventy Generate Category Pages module working in an Eleventy build process.

• Hiatus

  Posted June 6, 2023  in Miscellaneous
  Announcing that I'm having shoulder surgery and won't be posting here much in the next couple of months.

• Generating Eleventy Category Pages Inside Eleventy Build

  Posted June 5, 2023  in Eleventy
  After my announcement of my command-line utility for generating Eleventy Paginated Category pages, I learned how to do this inside of Eleventy and need some help finishing it for general use.

• Eleventy Paginated Category Pages

  Posted May 31, 2023  in Eleventy
  Something I wanted to do with this site, but wasn't supported by Eleventy, is generate paginated pages of content for each category. This article explains how I solved this problem and how you can use it for your Eleventy site(s).

• Migrating This Site from Joomla To Eleventy

  Posted May 30, 2023  in Eleventy
  Describes the process I used to migrate a 14 year old Joomla site (this one) to Eleventy and the tools I created to simplify the process (that you can use in your Joomla to Eleventy migrations).

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