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My worst job ever

I originally wrote this as a comment on the Tested.com Still Untitled episode about worst jobs, and it just seemed postworthy enough to publish here as well. I ended up with my worst job ever after responding to an classifieds ad about “warehouse work”. I had previously worked at an auto parts warehouse driving a… Continue reading My worst job ever

Launching Newsbeuter from the Dock

There are plenty of RSS readers out there, but I just found one that fits my minimalistic CLI needs like a glove: Newsbeuter. It’s available for OS X via Homebrew (as well as multiple flavours of Linux). Installing Newsbeuter wasn’t quite as straightforward as it could’ve been, especially since I wanted to be able to… Continue reading Launching Newsbeuter from the Dock

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Creating Drupal 7 nodes with PHP via the restws API

Drupal 8 has a built-in REST API that allows programmatical access to all the entities on a site. Similar functionality has been implemented for Drupal 7, in the RESTful Web Services (restws) module. In project I’m working on, in preparation for upgrading a site to Drupal 8, we were looking into options for creating “D8… Continue reading Creating Drupal 7 nodes with PHP via the restws API

Week numbering

Week numbers are… confusing, to say at the least. There’s no instinctive connection (well, for me) between a date and the corresponding week number. To make matters worse, there are multiple ways of numbering weeks. There’s the ISO-standard way, the way used in northern America, and another way that’s apparently used in the middle east… Continue reading Week numbering

Improved resistor value calculator

The resistor value calculator originally published here now supports 5-band resistors as well as 4-band ones. Also, larger ohm values are now shown with “k” and “M” suffixes. Improved resistor value calculator.

Storage box for 3D-printer

For a long time I considered ordering a custom-built flight case for my Solidoodle 2 3D-printer, but the prices were high enough that I never actually placed the order. Then, inspired by Adam Savage’s box build videos on Tested.com, I decided to build my own. Here are a few pictures of the finished product. I… Continue reading Storage box for 3D-printer

Pythagoras calculator update

A commenter suggested that I add a visualization of the triangle being calculated to my Pythagoran theorem calculator. Adding that was just a few more lines of code using the canvas-element, so here’s the updated version (direct link to the tool):

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Ubuntu, Apple International English keyboard, and the hash sign

Trying Linux is something I do every few years. That’s to say “Trying desktop Linux”, as I do work with Linux servers all the time. The latest attempt is ongoing right now, with the goal of getting X-Plane to run with a nice multi-display setup (which I’ll undoubtedly write a whole other blog post about).… Continue reading Ubuntu, Apple International English keyboard, and the hash sign