Howdy. I’m Ben. I’m a minimalist. I hate owning stuff. And even more than I hate owning stuff, I hate carrying stuff. So when Paul invited us to trek the Himalayas with him in the beginning of April 2021, I set out to do it with as little stuff as…

This is part II of a series about building a web controlled robotics platform. Part I was setting up Janus and serving demos with Node.js. Part III will be hooking up a robot! Today, we’re going to build a react app to manage Janus, and create and serve streams programatically…

I’m creating a pickable scene in Blender, using two flat colors. It looks like this. Each object in the scene has a light and dark material, and I wrote a script to change the material color when an object is highlighted. …

tl;dr: Have you used the Remote SSH extension in Visual Studio Code? You may not have realized, but with default settings it eats up a RIDICULOUS amount of cpu on the host. On small or shared core servers, this can easily exceed 100% cpu capacity, shut down critical processes, and…

Connecting your Pi to eduroam is great, coz it means you’ll have net access automatically on more than 600 college campuses worldwide. Getting synced up with eduroam on a Pi is mostly a matter of following the eduroam linux setup instructions, but with a couple caveats: On raspbian buster, there’s…

(or Francis and Nadine get a drink in Stockholm) With God’s own grace, Francis sat at the bar on a stool, working his nail under the seal of a bottle he had climbed up on the counter, reached above, and stolen. …

Lots of us want to achieve stuff, which is great, but our big dreams often get hung up when we’re actually faced with the nitty gritty every day lil mountains we have to climb to make progress towards them. I want to play jazz piano like Herbie, speak german in…