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Jekyll's ecosystem I was pretty excited when I found out about Jekyll about a month ago. It not only gives me the most of the content authoring functionality I need, it also allows me to gain nearly complete control over the site's features and aesthetics. If I knew Ruby, or if the plugins did exactly what I need, I …

The world of electronics ;) Maplin goes into administration Today it was announced that Maplin, the only high-street electronics chain that I know of, went into administration (BBC). I have mixed feelings about this retailer. I am into electronics and tinkering. I like to see what I'm buying compared to looking at a …

The beast did this. Thanks! While I was clearing snow off my car today, at the point I got to the radio antenna I was thinking about the need for simple radio receivers in the modern world. For a piece of electronic gadgetry that is well over 100 years old it is unbelievable that modern cars are still equipped with …

FileFactory Repo is located on GitHub. What is it? Provides declarative means to describe (define) filesystem primitives such as Regular files, Directories and Symlinks. These definitions will be used to create real files and verify that real files exists as per specification. Hence the "factory" analogy. …

For one of my recent projects I needed a tool to perform few basic operations on time ranges (called periods here). I was doing a lot of time manipulation (however cool that sound I am not building a time machine) and was getting tired of polluting other code with this responsibility. I decided to encapsulate that in a …

This post shows Terraform configuration files I have used to create base AWS stack for my projects. It is a minimal configuration for new VPC with public/private subnets and autoscaling bastion. Following is my best attempt at illustrating it. The stack consists of var.az_count (declared in variables.tf) subnets …

This post shows my example implementation of auto-delete solution that will traverse my Gmail account in search of qualifying messages and remove them. If you have ever owned some of the cheap CCTV cameras you might have chosen to automatically send motion snapshots and alerts to your email address. It can work but can …

Arduino tinkering There's been some occasions when I needed to perform few operations on an Arduino/Genuino board, but these had to happen along each other. This platform does not support parallel execution, and there isn't any built-in higher level tools to support asynchronous execution, but you can emulate …