Building custom Linux images, dealing with a 40 year old GPS standard, & trying to shoehorn functional programming into Python: Tracking vehicle location offline with a Raspberry Pi. (Part 1)
A quick project to write a Telegram chat bot that can control a camera, connected to a Raspberry Pi, to take pictures of things; or: Why I refuse to trust IoT vendors and do everything myself
On the joy of inheriting a rather bad dataset - dissecting ~120GB of terrible Google Takeout data to make it usable, using Dataflow/Beam, go, Python, and SQL.
One question I do get in earnest quite frequently is why I put up with running GNU/Linux distributions for development work. An attempt at a simple response.
The amount of time my outdoor cameras are being set off by light, wind, cars, or anything other than a human is insane. Overly cautious security cameras might be a feature, but an annoying one at that...
In 2017, I wrote about how to build a basic, Open Source, Hadoop-driven Telematics application (using Spark, Hive, HDFS, and Zeppelin) that can track your movements while driving, show you how your driving skills are, or how often you go over the speed limit - all without relying on 3rd party vendors processing and using that data on your behalf...
In this article, we'll take a look at whether Apache Hadoop still a viable option in 2019, with Cloud driven data processing an analytics on the rise...
In this article, I’ll document my process of building a home server - or NAS - for local storage, smb drives, backups, processing, git, CD-rips, and other headless computing...