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!

Wilmer Sears

Website Manager

Quote: "You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy." - Eric Hoffer.
Home Town: Coward, SC.

Rubin Gibbs

Herder of Helpless People

Quote: "Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude. " - Zig Ziglar.
Home Town: Richmond, VA.

Lenny Blackwell

Chief of Unicorn Division

Quote: "Great ones are willing to get burned time and again as they sharpen their swords in the fire." - Josh Waitzkin.
Home Town: Emporia, KS.

Clifford Hicks

Head of Schmoozing

Quote: "Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful." - Zig Ziglar.
Home Town: Dallas, TX.

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.

Coral1

#FF7256

From the classic X11 file rgb.txt

regentstblue

#AAD6E6

From the set of Resene colors.

Acidometer

#d61193

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"