3D Printable MTG Tokens
A simple process for creating and 3D printing tokens for playing Magic: The Gathering
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Self-Hosting A Ghost Website
How to self-host a Ghost website using a Raspberry Pi, Docker, and Cloudflare
Hosting Ghost on Digital Ocean with Cloudflare
A simple fix for redirect errors when self-hosting Ghost on Digital Ocean while using Cloudflare for DNS
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Projects
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.
Technology
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.
Technology
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.
News & Events
Site Updates
I'm excited to announce that I've recently made some changes to the site that I hope you'll enjoy. I've created some additional newsletters, re-organized the tags, and updated my navigation links
Technology
Reaching a Local API From Flutter
When doing full-stack development, most times you'll be working with a front end client and some sort of API that the client will consume. For web development, this usually isn't a problem since your API runs on one port and the client is on another - everything can still talk.
News & Events
My Final "Public" Post
By now, I think almost everyone is familiar with AI and how companies have been racing to incorporate it into just about everything. I haven't really taken a stance on it one way or another, up to this point.
Self Improvement
Building Success with the Power List
There are a lot of different methods out there for increasing your productivity and becoming successful. I've tried several of them, but the one that has helped the most is the power list.
Programming
EF Core & Cosmos DB
For most apps, I tend to use Microsoft SQL or Postgres for data storage and persistence, but occasionally it may also make sense to use a document database. I wanted to see how it was working with Cosmos DB in a .Net application.
Programming
Blazor vs Flutter - Part 4
This is the fourth article in a 10 article series: Blazor vs Flutter. This post focuses on components and pages.
Programming
Customize a Bootstrap Theme with Umbraco
Lately, I've been looking at a few different options for a CMS platform. Of the ones that I've looked at, I think Umbraco makes the most sense, considering that most of my work uses C# & .Net, it has online hosting for ~$35/month, and it's been the easiest for me to understand.
Programming
Creating a NuGet Package
Sometimes it can be useful to share your code between projects or with other individuals. One easy way to do this is through the creation of a NuGet package.
Projects
Open Source Farm Management
Over the past few months, I've dedicated a fair amount of time to two different activities: experimenting with indoor farming and building an open source farm management platform