Recent Blog Posts
Make: NanoLeaf
I was surfing around on YouTube one day and ran across a project presented by a version personable British fellow who wanted to teach me how to make my own configurable lighting panels which he called NanoLeaf. These are similar but different from a product called NanoLeaf Shapes which you […]
Make: Logo Sign
A couple years ago I decided I needed a logo. Something to put on things that I make when I want to identify that I made them. I wanted something simple and easy to read. This is what I came up with: I liked it so well that it was […]
Make: Canning Jar Lid Organizers!
My lovely daughter-in-law texted me an image a while back and asked if I could make her some organizers for canning jar lids. I immediately responded that of course I could! Then my laser broke. Sigh. What should have been an easy project became a much lengthy one because I […]
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!
Lincoln Leon
Hacker
Quote: "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined." - Toni Morrison.
Home Town: Omaha, NE.
Reyes Lyons
Space Lawyer
Quote: "The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it." - Thich Nhat Hanh.
Home Town: Massillon, OH.
Riley Holmes
Interwebs Mechanic
Quote: "Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." - Mother Teresa.
Home Town: Omaha, NE.
Brice Bartlett
Rockstar
Quote: "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else." - Judy Garland.
Home Town: Richmond, VA.
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.
Royalblue
#4169E1
From the classic X11 file rgb.txt
earlydawn
#FFF9E6
From the set of Resene colors.
Snecker
#9af2ac
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"