So, not a particularly exciting month in Music. Despite actual effort on my part, Sigrid still tops the chart by a large margin. Tessa Violet comes in second. I actually watched both of these artists doing online live(ish) shows due to the Corona-virus. Though the Sigrid segment of the Twitch Stream event was pre recorded … [Read more…]
At some point I need to do a little write up on my Home Dashboard Project, it’s inspired quite a few minor projects such as this one to make little web widgets. The dashboard is the simple part, it’s just dumping a database query into a table. Honestly, the script was easy too, because I … [Read more…]
I wrote a bit about my Network Map Webpage recently. It’s part of a larger home dashboard project I’m working on, but as part of that I’ve updated things a bit to make them more streamlined and easier to use. The biggest problem with the page as it was originally coded is that it shows … [Read more…]
Not a whole ton that’s overly exciting this month. I did listen to quite a bit of BT, whom is one of my all time favorite artists, even if my time listening to his stuff comes and goes. I think there was a bit of earlier stuff that I didn’t associate as being BT that … [Read more…]
I want to start off by saying, there isn’t going to be a ton of code here, and if there is code, it’s going to be super dirty. I’m fairly good at making code for “private use” that is pretty insecure, and not so great at code that’s scrubbed up and user friendly to distribute … [Read more…]
I recently had an idea occur to me that I might be able to pick up used Raspberry Pis off of eBay more affordably than buying them new. I didn’t really find a ton of savings, but I did pick up an auction for a lot of various parts for fairly cheap. I am not … [Read more…]
I’ve had an up and down relationship with being motivated to read. I pushed myself back into reading round 2016 and had a lot of success at 35 books for the year, but then it fizzled out again with like, 1 book in 2018. It doesn’t help that I have a huge backlog of books … [Read more…]
I keep wanting to change these up to be by artist instead of album but there doesn’t seem to be a 5×5 generator that does artists and has images. Sounds like an excuse to do some coding, but I’m not sure it’s possible because it feels like something someone would have done. So anyway, it’s … [Read more…]
A lot of people recently started posting their Spotify year end reviews to social media. I don’t really use Spotify for music, but I do use Last.fm. In fact, I’ve used Last.fm off and on since 2005. There are a few low points, I had basically zero Scrobbles for 2015 for example, and it was … [Read more…]
As part of my need to keep my personal spending reasonable, I like to keep a spread sheet budget. Each paycheck I get a set aside amount of money dumped into a separate bank account that I use for personal spending on hobbies and things like eating out and gas for my car. Part of … [Read more…]