Baby Naming Project
tl;dr: you can get a new person/car/pet/whatever naming app now at https://github.com/eskibars/lentil-namer As a first-time dad-to-be, one of the things I’ve noticed is that the first thing anyone asks you about your baby is...
Category: Projects
Tracking Nearby Ships with SDR, Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Vega Visualizations
Intro A year ago, I moved nearer to Golden Gate Bridge and seeing the ships come in made me wonder how they’re tracked. I had seen websites like this one, and was curious how...
Combining Tasker with Elasticsearch and Kibana for Personal Dashboards
Tasker is probably my favorite Android app. It gives you total control over your device. Not to mention there’s a great community that develops all sorts of interesting tasks/integrations. I was recently on a...
Connecting Domoticz and Elasticsearch
I use Domoticz for my home automation needs. I’ll just start off by saying it has its pros and cons. Pros: It seems to have pretty wide device support It allows for a completely...
Recruiters’ new (spam) tools
Intro I’ve recently been getting a slew of e-mails from recruiters. Horray! Right? Except…no. Don’t get me wrong: we all have jobs and I’m happy to get e-mails from recruiters. The issue is that...
Mini Public Transit Board
First World Problems I live in San Francisco where our coffee is strong, our alcohol is stronger, and our public transit system (Muni) is weak. OK, that’s not entirely fair, but Muni is slow and unreliable:...
Ad-blocking and extra privacy for your devices
The back-story: As one of my friends has stated… The Internet is a scary place without Adblock It’s true. And while I think he was largely referring to the ubiquity and annoying nature of many...
Populating users in Active Directory using Perl with OLE
Occasionally, I’ve had the need to populate sample users into an Active Directory for projects. There are, no doubt, other ways to do this that are simpler/more direct. For example, it’s likely incredibly easy...
Stats – Hours Per Week
I found a neat report on the US Bureau of Labor Statistics website which outlines how people spend various hours of their day. I thought it would be neat to make a little comparison tool for this, to...