Disclaimer: not a tutorial Repo This is using Puppeteer on NodeJS with Google Spreadsheet API to automate website logins and get data eg. current balance and fill in a Google Spreadsheet that’s used as a DB for other personal APIs. Demo Here’s a video

Summary This post will just go over how to add server-side encryption to an application that will be based on a user’s password and this PHP encryption library called php-defuse. I will use memcache to store the temporary key that is used to encrypt/decrypt while a user is logged in. This…

Introduction This tutorial will show you how to connect a Raspberry Pi to a small solar panel (cell) and get the measured voltage and current from that solar panel. Lastly I will briefly touch on how you can send this data to a website. …

This a generic overview of making basic hobby robotics with common off the shelf parts. This is not a comprehensive guide but a collection of notes and concepts to keep in mind about this topic. This also assumes you’re looking to make something yourself vs. building a kit. So you want to build a robot? These are…

Background I have been aimless lately. Fear of debt always looming on my mind. I quit a six-fig job back in Mar 2023 which was pretty dumb considering I got that role without a degree and it was remote. Even more dumb that I did not have a job lined up…

So… let’s rewind 2 months ago: oh damn where does money come from… I sold pretty much anything that was worth more than $100… …you have to do 4 interviews spanning weeks apart before you get hired… then there’s the delay of your start date and pay roll. I basically…

This is a rambling, life check-in post. So… about a month ago I was dumb, was drinking too much and destroyed my phone. This phone, a Moto G Stylus 2020 ($300 in 2021) is decent; I had it since 2021. It has 4GB of RAM and a 1080P screen.

08/04/2023–08/06/2023 0 hrs spent in development This weekend is not that productive since I drank on Friday, spent most of Saturday recovering and today is laundry day (interruptions going to laundromat). I spent money that I didn’t have… so I gotta move stuff around to make sure I can pay my bills. Overdraw my main…

This is a website in its simplest form: You save that file as something.html and open it with a browser you see this: