Recent Blog Posts
Moving (My Site)!
My site has recently moved hosting providers. This comes after 3-years at a perfectly good host, Hostinger. The problem is, the current business model for hosts goes something like this: “Get Started Today for Just $3/month (for the first year)”. Or, if you’re lucky, you might pay a bit more, […]
Make: Art!
There’s a wall in our place where they installed all the breaker boxes. Makes for easy access, but it’s not exactly attractive. In fact, it looks a lot like the inside wall of a garage (which is what it likely was at one point). So, the notion I had was, […]
Make: Eddie Bot – Redo
Back about three years ago, I printed and painted a version of a little robot called Eddie. You can read about it here. Sadly, in the move from our previous house to this one, poor Eddie got jostled about quite a bit and broke both his legs. Unfortunately, the resin […]
Fortune
Once upon a time, in the Before Times (call it the 1990s), software engineers would add to an otherwise boring login by displaying additional things like time, date or weather. Another was to display a random fortune. Some are movie quotes, some are literary quotes and some are just fortunes. Some are profane and some are a little profound. This bit of code accesses an online API to generate a fortune and display it.
Credit to HelloACM, which provides and hosts the API for this and many other cool things.
Staff Spotlight
This is our Staff Spotlight where we focus on some of the folks who help make us who we are!
Oliver Chaney
Geek Squad Agent
Quote: "Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions." - T.S. Eliot.
Home Town: Sunnyvale, CA.
Shane Hoover
Bear Biologist
Quote: "The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought." - Dan Brown.
Home Town: Roanoke, VA.
Antwan Rosa
Direct Mail Demi-God
Quote: "Nothing like a health problem to turn up the contrast dial for the rest of life." - Naval Ravikant.
Home Town: Richmond, VA.
Gail Conner
Digital Marketing Director
Quote: "It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future." - Nicolas Chamfort.
Home Town: Dayton, OH.
Credit to HelloACM for the random identity generator, Generated.photos for the AI generated headshots and Pixabay for the random backgrounds and api.quoteable.io for the quotes api.
Random Colors of the Day
Find some inspiration to brighten your colorspace! The three options below are based on trying to assign names to colors as they are represented on a computer screen, typically via a hex value like this: "#546789". Each pair represents the strength of the Red, Green and Blue value. Back in the day, the X11 Consortium declared that colors would be stored in a file called "rgb.txt" and many had names associated with them. Additionally, I found a list of colors and names based on Resene colors. The third one is what happens if you pick a random value and call it a random name. Very useful and highly scientific.
Dark slate grey
#2F4F4F
From the classic X11 file rgb.txt
moonyellow
#FCD917
From the set of Resene colors.
Film joiner
#400436
A unique color and name, created just for you!
About
This is a place where I keep my stuff on the web. The contents and appearance change with time, but tend to reflect my interests. Those interests include: writing, technology, computers, software (both as a user and a developer), 3D printing, crafting, role playing games, computer games, music, art and woodworking to name a few. I do a variety of things that change often and sometimes without warning and typically reflect things I'm curious about.
Darrin Mossor
Human In Training
“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
"Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary"