I spent some time this morning doing analysis of our electricity usage. I was pleasantly surprised by how easy XcelEnergy makes it to retrieve your historical data at frequencies as low as every 15 minutes! Related — we use a lot of electricity… ⚡️
Software Development
Weekly Thing Christmas Blogs
The random five winners of the Weekly Thing Christmas Blog gift have been selected! A little Python to do the selection… import random # Define list of names values = [ "name", "name", "name", … ] # Shuffle the list random.shuffle(values) print("Randomly selected values:", …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Weekly Thing Christmas BlogsThings 4 Good 2024 Fall Fundraiser Insights
We had a great time hosting our 4th annual Things 4 Good Fall Fundraiser. We raised $7,010 in donations for our four non-profits. I also like to take a look at the data from the sale to learn more for next year. We made 252 candles in preparation for the sale. We had 72 Winter …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Things 4 Good 2024 Fall Fundraiser InsightsTyler’s Playdate Game: The 5 Piece Sword
The most open of the Summer Challenges I gave Tyler was to create a Playdate Experience. No requirements other than something that could be played on the Playdate and created in Pulp. Tyler really got into this and created a full interactive game experience — The 5 Piece Sword. …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Tyler's Playdate Game: The 5 Piece SwordShopping via Terminal
My cousin Quinn had mentioned this place that sold coffee via the Terminal using ssh but I hadn’t remembered to check it out. He recently built his own terminal-based task tracker and mentioned terminal.shop again so I gave it a try. Clearly the goal here is to appeal to the …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Shopping via TerminalResurrecting two Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ units that I had from when I was running Pi-hole. Putting new images on them and will be a fun host for Tyler to learn some Linux skills on. Not sure what I’m going to do with mine yet.
Summer Challenge: Create a Playdate Experience
This post is part of the Summer Challenge Collection, a collection of tasks or projects for our kids to do over the summer. This is a very open ended challenge to use the Playdate Pulp web-based game editor to create some kind of experience for the Playdate. This could be a game, …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Summer Challenge: Create a Playdate ExperienceImporting 240 Word Documents to Micro.blog
This weekend I helped get my cousin Josh setup Rambling Josh, a new website to host the column he’s been writing for 20 years. He knew I used micro.blog and was game to use that. I suggested he get a domain name at NameCheap which he did. I got in and twiddled some settings and I …
Keep reading · 6 minutes: Importing 240 Word Documents to Micro.blogFor fun I added my website to the IndieWeb Webring. 🕸💍 I also added an h-card microformat tucked away in the footer of my site. I styled it not to display but the validator picks it up fine.
Today I Learned: DNS and Wildcard Records
One of my favorite features of Fastmail is mail routing. I can use that to create any number of ad hoc email addresses in the format of anything at jamie.thingelstad.com. I’ve been using this feature for a while and to set it up you create a wildcard MX entry for your domain …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Today I Learned: DNS and Wildcard Records