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Receipts

• Starbucks, total: $5.25, ~08:50. Grande Blonde Americano, $4.25; tip: $1.
• Gas, total: $27.96, 12:24. 5.002gal at $5.59/gal. 92.8mi, Not Full.
• Target, total: $15.36, 15:44. 4x instant rice, $1.59 ea; 2x spices, $1.19 ea; Potato chips: $2.19; Spray bottle $4.

TDC was the original idea I started working on after quitting my last tech job. I thought I'd be able to run the engine with crowd funding rather than investment or freelancing, until there was enough leverage to get good investment terms and legitimacy to attract clients. I've been following the sa...

When tasked with making a browser extension to scan a website for changes and notify upon certain changes, I first read the spec and identified the highest risk item first. I solved that hard issue and was satisfied. Related to the operation of the scanning code itself... if that wouldn't work then ...

Hogumathi started as a Twitter and Mastodon client and evolved into what I call a Social Media CMS (Content Management System). It's not made the full transition from client app to CMS as I'd intended to find a host CMS to integrate with, and decouple it from the Flask based web app I've constructed...

I have new ideas for apps and features every day and I'm generous in sharing them. Ideas are cheap, execution takes time and opportunity is time sensitive and concrete--self-employment/freelance for a client or a market inefficiency that can be capitalized on directly with one's own resources. I'm t...

I decided to learn Python when I got a new laptop that doesn't allow running unsigned binaries from the Microsoft Store. Guess how many options that leaves me for development ecosystems? Not many. No NodeJS, no Clojure/Java JVM, no precompiled Python modules. But there are plenty of pure Python modu...

The best way to get an answer to a question about software is to read the source code. I am populating my Git server with repos, both original and mirrors. I'm using Gogs which clones GitHub that allows filtering repositories by type in the way I desire. I try adding ?type=source to my query string,...

I want to spin up Hashicorp Vault as a backing store for Minio keys. I'll first focus on a simpler use case of personal password storage to kick the tires. First, find the docker image and start it up with appropriate settings. https://hub.docker.com/r/hashicorp/vault docker volume create vault-data...

A couple times now I've stood up a Gogs server for private use and imported some of my projects. I keep having my hosting shut off because I run out of money, or my RasPi SD card go read-only because of excessive writes for the non-performance graded cards I was using (my ignorance, now I know bette...

I've been running a cheap Windows laptop in S Mode for the past year, where I can only run App Store binaries. I could take it out of S Mode but choose to leave it in for peace of mind. I've had to adopt some new tools including Python due to lack of a JVM or NodeJS runtime, as well as NotePad++ whi...