A bunch of Echoes will now sit in this bag until which time I’m confident these recordings are not shared with Facebook, Instagram, Advertisers… I’ve had too many things happen recently mentioning a company only to see ads an hour or so later….
I’ve not done much on my “blog” in the past several years. With FaceBook, Twitter & Instagram it’s been too easy to just post there, but given the censorship and potential Anti-Trust lawsuits I thought it best to get back to owning my own content and start blogging again. So things to look forward to: […]
I’ve been using lots of different PLA filament, mainly Hatchbox PLA and Inland (From Microcenter). The old Inland Filament was from eSun, but recently they changed to a new brand and it’s not held up as nice. I definitely recommend Hatchbox PLA from Amazon.
What does user experience look like without a mouse & keyboard or easy to enter form fields? How do people talk to AI systems to solve problems? These systems can be through devices like Alexa or virtual systems like automated chatbots. Understanding psychology and human behavior become just as valuable as business knowledge when designing […]
So I’ve been trying to find a simple React example, one that uses a flux implementation that works out of the box in a browser without any compilation or node stuff. I couldn’t find one so I built one. Here it is: https://github.com/scottpreston/react-examples. This requires, RefluxJS, ReactJS, React-Dom and a Browser. You can use node to […]
I’ve been struggling a bit with openzwave items because its so poorly documented. I’ve finally figured out how to get results from a door sensors with the node package node-openzwave-shared. If you follow the install script, then just add this event handler below, you can receive updates. zwave.on(’node event’, function(nodeid, nodeEvt) { console.log(new Date(), ’node […]
I recently had an UPS failure. My UPS and APC 650 ES, has a battery they call for is the RBC17. Which on Amazon.Com is $39.99. However when you peal the sticket off you get Vision UB1290. This battery (which is the same battery) cost around $15.00. I imaging this happens a lot with companies looking […]