Frustrating

It can be so frustrating sometimes, you know?, when your dog won’t listen? Like when you’re in the park, calling him and he won’t come, and it’s two years into a pandemic, and your 4-year old has tested positive, and you know, ok?, you know!, kids do great with covid, but it’s the worst case scenario and it’s happened, and you’ve been imagining this since it all started because you worry about all the bad things that could happen to him because that’s your job and now he’s stuck at home and he misses school and friends and every day he asks “why won’t you play with me?” after you’ve just played with him for hours and you need some time away from this energizer bunny, whom you love so. much. and you feel guilty because it’s like, what? you can’t spend some time with your son? what kind of father are you? and anyway what right do you have to complain? there are people out there really suffering while you’re just like, what? inconvenienced? and then your dog just won’t COME! COME HERE! COME HERE RIGHT NOW GODDAMNIT! and suddenly everybody is staring at the nut cursing at his dog, like, chill out dude. But it can be frustrating sometimes, when your dog won’t listen.

Stenosaurus Reference Bible

Stenosaurus Reference Bible

This is my Stenosaurus Reference Bible. It is over 700 double sided pages of printed documentation about every aspect of the Stenosaurus development plus my own notes. I had no idea it would get so thick!

Baby Stenosaurus speaks its first words

I've finished implementing the TX Bolt protocol for the Stenosaurus. Imagine the board is the Stenosaurus. The USB connection implements a virtual serial port. I've configured Plover to use this port. Each time I press the button the Stenosaurus outputs the stroke PHRO*FR. Plover then translated that stroke into "Plover".

Entering wifi credentials on a smartphone the "easy" way

If you've ever had to add a wifi key, or anything long and tedious, into a smartphone then you may find this handy.

One quick trick is to use a QR Code to get the key onto the phone.

Step 1) Turn the text into a QR Code. You can do this manually at http://qrcode.kaywa.com/ or try this bookmarklet. Just drag the link to your bookmark bar, highlight some text on a page and click on the bookmarklet.
Step 2) Scan the text into your phone. For the iPhone I used the free app "QR App". For Android I used the free app "Barcode Scanner".
Step 3) Copy the text. For iPhone with QR App just double tap the text and choose copy. For Android with Barcode Reader the text is automatically copied for you.
Step 4) Paste.

This is great for most things but if you really want to protect your password then sending it in a url in cleartext may not be the best way. For that, try this Javascript QR Code generator. Take a look at the source to convince yourself that it is all client side.


Javascript QR Code generator by Kazuhiko Arase.