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Digital Record Keeping for Your Farm
My first year growing produce, I struggled to keep decent records about what was grown and sold. I started looking for software solutions, but ultimately decided to write my own.
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Verify a Checksum in Windows
A lot of vendors that provide software online provide a checksum for the file that helps you verify that what you downloaded hasn't been altered in some way. Sometimes that's an MD5 or SHA256.
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Raspberry Pi Pico Weather Station
In my last post, I wrote about building a raspberry pi pico temperature sensor for collecting data on my farm. This time, I increased the complexity and built an entire weather station using the pico.
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Raspberry Pi Pico Thermometer
As I work on building my farm, one thing I'm aiming to do is collect and analyze data in order to better understand what's happening and how to improve my operation. I figure building custom devices using raspberry pis are a good way to go about this.
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2023 - The Review
As 2023 comes to a close, I thought I'd take a few minutes to look back and see what I accomplished over the past 12 months. This way, I have something to reference later on.
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Hydration Errors with NextJS and Inputs
When using NextJS, I've occasionally run into hydration errors and waste time trying to figure out what's wrong. Then I remember that I have LastPass and Proton Pass installed.
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Posting to X (Twitter) with OAuth 1.0
I recently built an integration between my blog and twitter, but manually creating the OAuth 1.0 header was a bit involved. Here's how I did it.
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Hosting a .Net API on a Raspberry Pi
Cloud hosting is simple and convenient, but over time it can also be costly. As an alternative, I decided to host a .Net API on a Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu.
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Creating a Personal Hedgehog Concept
I recently read Jim Collin's book "Good to Great" and learned about the hedgehog concept. Learn what that is, and how I created the first version of my statement.
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Creating a Logo With Minimal Artistic Ability
At the beginning of 2021, I started to get into 3d modeling and printing, which lead me to open an Etsy shop. As part of that process, I created a basic logo based of off some images I had seen online.
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Automatically Update Postman Variables
When building APIs, you'll often want to create and store a collection of endpoints and requests in order to test quickly and effectively. There are a number of tools to help with this, but the one I use most often is Postman.
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Breaking up With Big Tech
It's hard to remember how things used to be prior to all the big tech companies. They went from making great products to stealing our information and showering us with adds, so I've started looking for alternatives.