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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
I always love the color schemes on the stuff you make, very recognizable.
About 3 days ago, I posted a dumb idea on Mastodon, like I do every now and then. but then I said why not and am now working on it.
The idea, for anyone not wanting to click random links, is to get a light sensor and wire it up to the single smart light bulb I bought (specifically for this kind of laziness) to keep my room at the exact same brightness through the day and night (just so I don't have to do the unthinkable act of reaching to the light switch).
Today though, I realized I don't have to search for any light sensors at all, because I already have one, inside a phone I no longer use.
For the last few hours, I was working on getting the phone up and running again, as the custom ROM that was installed couldn't see any sensors. Now I got the phone to show the current light level through Tasker (#1 phone bodging tool), either late this night or tomorrow, I'll connect it to the light, and the last thing is to figure out if I should keep it plugged in (worried about battery damage), or re-charge it every now and then (lazy)
Fantastic idea! I might take a jab myself if you don't manage to wrap it before me.
For phone charging, if you are already in custom ROM, you are probably not beyond magisk. There is a module named 'Advanced Charging Controller (acc)'. It keeps phone charged between 30%-80%. Its a secondary Syncthing device, been plugged in the same spot for past year or so, no battery issues yet.
I'm learning how to implement OAuth 2.0 into a brand new API with a interface hosted in Azure API Management.
My brain hurts. Open mouth, insert firehose.
I built a basic Express endpoint for collecting mailing list subscriptions. Form collection has a ton of SaaS offerings, but I decided to just do it myself.
Made another python program. This time to notify me on a particular word in a page. I use it on one online forum that has threads for things on sale. I wanted to buy a Kindle for my SO and made this to be notified when it went on sale. Finally today the popup appeared!
Here it is
It is not exactly a promoscrapper, it is just a look for a particular word in a page.
Any tips are welcome as always.
I've been working on a book about IPython called "IPython for Web Devs", and I think I'm pretty much done, so I wanted to share it. I focus on things that I think can help a web developer be more efficient, and talk about some lesser-known things you can do with IPython, including integrating the
blackcode formatter, changing syntax highlighting, persisting objects to a new shell session, and even executing different languages like Perl or Ruby in the shell.https://ipythonbook.com
I'm working on packaging chromecast_mpris for Linux distributions. The app lets you control Chromecast and Android TV devices from Linux.
Right now, it's packaged for the AUR, but I want to release it for Debian and Ubuntu distros, too.