There are a couple of legacy Java services at work that I have to do maintenance on every once in a while. I haven’t really kept up with the state Java for the past few years, so my approach goes something like “change as little as possible and pray for minimal breakage”.
More …So yeah, a year passed by. That happens sometimes.
More …I sit down to write, I tell myself. I enjoy the creative flow. There is a certain gratification to committing your words to paper. And anyway, I tell myself, today is going to be different.
More …I built a simple node.js client for fetching Pokémon data from pokeapi.co. You can run it on the server as well as in a browser, although in the latter case you’d need to direct the requests through a proxy on your origin server.
More …An earlier protip concerned using ido-mode for increased Emacs productivity. I’ve since moved on to Helm, which is simply amazing in how it streamlines your user experience.
More …Yesterday I was rudely reminded that just because Node.js is single threaded doesn’t mean you don’t have to worry about race conditions.
More …So yeah, one reason I haven’t blogged or done any OSS work recently is I’ve been playing Hearthstone obsessively. I installed it with some trepidation and immediately got hooked so hard it is kind of scary. Now I can’t get enough. I read the blogs, watch the streams, follow the drama.
More …I’m immensely proud of the fact that I soldered together my first prototype board last night. It holds two DS18B20s; one naked sensor soldered straight onto the board and one on a waterproof cable that I’ve hung out the window. This lets me measure current indoor and outdoor temperature.
More …Where I live there aren’t really any options for electronics shopping, so I was resigned to do it mostly through mail order. Fortunately I discovered that Kjell & Co., which is probably the closest thing to Radio Shack we have in Sweden, not only carries a lot of Arduino stuff, but also has an shop in the next town over (Luleå, about 50km away).
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