Adventures in sorting
toast As I’ve mentioned before, I’m off the deep end. I’ve purchased a couple of Akro-Mils drawer cabinets to sort my Lego bricks in. Already, I think I need more. Every…
Shuffled things around
Decided to put this on its own subdomain. The main site will link here and then to any other project that requires a subdomain. Basically, I don’t want the site…
It’s over, I’m done
I’m officially over the deep end. I’ve ordered two Akro-Mils storage cabinets. The 24 and 64 drawer ones specifically. And I’ll be starting to sort my Lego bricks in these.…
Modules and Datasets
The ongoing saga As I continue to refactor the “Lego” site, I continue to realize how slapdash I put it together in the first place. I first split the frontend…
My $360 Boondongle
The Perfect Storm A couple of weeks ago, I found myself in the mall. Mostly because I drove there. Which I did because my wife had things she needed to…
My Github Looks Bad
I’m a working developer. I’ve been working as a developer for nearly 20 years now. And I’ve been programming for about 27. I’ve written code in C, C++, Pascal, Basic,…
Refactoring Lego Finder
The Beginnings I’ve posted previously about this project and posted a link to the repository. And if you had seen it, you’d agree, it was pretty rough. It was all…
Fixing the Thing I Broke While Fixing the Thing
When swapping the joysticks on my drifting JoyCons, I kind of snapped the ribbon connecting the rail buttons to the controller itself. They were both left JoyCons, but the site…
Minitron to TheLab
Getting Angular running on Raspberry Pi I’ve been running my Lego Finder on a Raspberry Pi 3 I dubbed “Minitron”. It’s alright, keeps me notified when Lego adds sets to…
Swapping JoyCon Joysticks
Drift A rather infamous problem with the Switch’s JoyCons is drift. It’s when inputs are detected on the JoyCon’s analog joystick when there is no actual input. Your character starts…