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Written by darrell24015 who lives and works in Roanoke, VA. Also builds a lot of different robot projects. Check out my Twitter feed

Anniversary, Of Sorts

This fall marks the 20 year anniversary of going back to school and switching careers. Having been in the clinical laboratory (forensic…

MacBook Pro is Dead

The MacBook Pro is Dead. Long Live the iPad Pro Ok, so that’s probably a bold statement. A little bit of a backstory. I’ve been using some…

Desktop Challenge - Week 2

The Raspberry Pi 4 #DesktopPiChallenge is going very well! For daily use, web browsing and email, it has proven to be more than adequate. I…

Using AdafruitIO

Moving on to Day 2 of the #DesktopPiChallenge - I’m quite impressed with the performance of the Raspberry Pi 4. Logging the CPU temperatures…

Desktop Challenge - Day 1

The #DesktopPiChallenge is underway and going quite well so far. The Raspberry Pi 4 is replacing my 2013 Mac mini desktop for the next…

Chocolatey

As mentioned before, I usually spend a good bit of time working in Linux, and sometimes with Mac OS. I’ve gotten quite used to living on the…

The New Raspberry Pi 4

To be honest, it was a bit of a surprise hearing about the release of the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. The last article that I had read pointed…

Change Your Favicon in Gatsby

In one of the (many) posts and articles I’ve read about getting started with Gatsby, one author adamantly exclaimed “Don’t forget to change…

Command Line Adventures

Call it the command line, cmd, terminal, emulator, console - it’s where you type in stuff and expect the computer to execute the command you…

New Domain Name

I am really getting into this new JAMStack concept! So much that I launched a new domain just for hosting and displaying these projects…

Deploying to Azure

Learning Gatsby has been going along well. I’ve created a really simple “Hello World” web page and a bare-bones blog page with the Gatsby…

Python Users Group Roanoke

Announcing a new Meetup! A casual group for both new and experienced users of the Python programming language. Casual users, hobbyists and…

Themes

Not sure why, but I’ve started having a theme for each year. Usually related to some project or skill that I’m learning. Maybe it’s to help…

My Second Post!

I love blogging so much already. Actually, I’ve been blogging in one form or another since 1998. Wow, over 20 years! Did you know that blog…

Yet Another Tech Blog

This is my first post on this spiffy new Gatsby blog. How exciting, eh? I’m sure I’ll learn a lot of new web dev stuff in the process…