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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 one. In the era of insane …
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FileFactory Repo is located on BitBucket. 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. …
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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 …
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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 with …
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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 …
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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 asynchronous execution by …
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