Journal
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Project Carcade, pt II
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I did my little prototyping, and it worked like a charm. The Sony AVX AV3250 has a parking break sensor, that enables the display to show the videosignal if, and only if, the parking break is enabled. Or, if you do like I did, and just ground it to the chassis of the car. The…
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Order of Operations
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As I mentioned in my previous post I bought a car last year. I have been very happy with it, but the headunit in (which was cheap Chinese thing) annoyed me. It would crash often, and just generally be unreliable. Also, in the 2006 Honda Civic when you remove the stock head unit you lose…
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Stack monitoring and debugging
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I still write a ton of code. Code needs to be maintained. That means keeping an eye on how your code performs. While talking through that process with a friend and a client, I thought it might be interesting to write a bit about my process. Git is the common thread I use Gitlab for…
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missed connections; emergency exit row
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You: Lovely infectious laughter, brunette, travelling with your friend. Me: tall chubby red bearded supergeek. We started laughing about the Chinese gentleman who thought we were waving at him when we were yelling at him to take a step backward, so a young mother could get into her seat next to her child. We never…
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Work & Play
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On and off (more on than off) I’ve been running my own business since 2006. I’ve never been much for formalized things, and so I’ve never really maintained an actual office for my business. It was never my idea that it was something that should grow into a massive corp, and so being just me…
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Unexpected productivity
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For Christmas Liv gifted me a calendar. This particular one was a collection of daily strips from Ekstra Bladet, a publication I would usually avoid at any cost. But, y’know, it was a gift from a dear friend and so it has a space on my desk. Up until now, I’ve been occasionally pulling strips off…
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The worlds oldest cinema
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An unexpected benefit from the dental trip to Stettin is that down the street from our hotel is the world oldest cinema. It opened in 1909 under the name Helios, at a time when Stettin was in Germany. And here 107 years later it’s still going. My inner filmbuff is unreasonably excited.
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The Lucas Line
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Yesterday I finally went to see ‘Interstellar‘ and damn – what a mess of a movie (but that’s a post for another day). I posted a quick thing on Facebook and said it seemed like Nolan had finally crossed The Lucas Line. Then someone asked “What’s the Lucas Line?”. The Lucas Line is a small…