Just excellent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSz08xPM_EA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSz08xPM_EA
Author: jaywll
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Notion productivity app lifts limits on free plan | Engadget
I am constantly on the lookout for better tools for note taking and to-dos. This one sounds intriguing because it includes some kanban functionality.
https://www.engadget.com/notion-productivity-app-lifts-limits-on-free-plan-044035529.html
Paul Brandt to head Alberta’s anti-human-trafficking task force | Calgary Herald
How to Dye Your Kid’s Hair With Kool-Aid
If it works as hair dye, I’m thinking we probably shouldn’t be drinking it, no?
https://offspring.lifehacker.com/dye-your-kids-hair-with-kool-aid-1843541006
Stuck Dogs Who Require Assistance – FAIL Blog – Funny Fails
Is it possible Shrapnel is back after a nearly two year hiatus? Maybe. We’ll see
I’m in the process of reworking my (now very old) website. It’s a great quarantine project, especially now @asiancwgrl is working in the evenings again.
As I work through it I’m discovering some awesome tools and services, so I thought I’d share a few links in no particular order.
- OctoberCMS is a PHP-based CMS based on the Laravel framework. I’ve tried it out before, but this time around I’ve been writing a few plugins of my own to really make it do what I want. I’d also shout out the Magic Forms third-party plugin.
- Bootstrap is the front-end framework I’m using. I’ve been aware of it for a while but I’ve never used it until now, and I don’t know I ever lived without it. The only downside is now that I know what a bootstrap-based site looks like I see them everywhere.
- Font Awesome is a service I only learned about today and is a really simple way to use icons on a website.
- ColorSpace for creating colour schemes
Hardware Hacking
As much as I enjoy building my own hardware, especially stuff that makes my various dumb appliances smart, it’s sometimes the most frustrating experience. I find myself constantly troubleshooting something.
This, for example, is the microcontroller that connects up all the stuff in my garage – door sensors, ultrasonic distance sensors, temperature sensors, etc.
It stopped working a month or so ago, and I’ve been trying to figure it out. The problem is that it’s attached to the rafters in the garage, so I disconnected everything and took it down to work on it. As soon as I plugged it in at my desk it booted up, connected itself to the WiFi and started complaining that the garage door was gone – as expected when the sensors are disconnected.
This afternoon I put it back in its housing in the garage, plugged it in… and nothing.
It took me an hour of trial and error before it occurred to me to put a multi-meter on it to see if the sensors were getting the voltage they should be, and I discovered the problem. The USB power adapter that should have been supplying it with 5V was only putting out about a quarter of that.
Infuriating.
