Manton Reece and Brent Simmons — have noticed that JSON has become the developers’ choice for APIs, and that developers will often go out of their way to avoid XML. JSON is simpler to read and write, and it’s less prone to bugs.

Concise information about GitHub markdown

Allows you to paste formatted URLs into md documents in VS Code

Allows you to paste images into md documents in VS Code

Static Site Generators are hot, here are some of the best!

The Raspberry Pi Imager is a great piece of software for preparing your SD cards for use with Raspberry Pis. However, if you’re setting up a number of Raspberry Pis you will find that you still need to connect a monitor, keyboard and mouse to them to complete the …

Take a deep dive into modern web browsers and see how it all works!

Inside look at modern web browser (part 1)

There are several Community Plugins used to create the 64Zbit.com website. Here are a list of the ones I'm currently using.

When you need to hide something, but still want them to be able to see it later. Of course, they could just look at the source.

Pretty nice looking fonts. Check out the details here:

Google Fonts Blog: Flow and Redacted: Check out these new options for wireframes and other …

Moxie Marlinspike shares his first impressions of Web3. Seems that Web3 is already a mess.

Steps to publishing to Pelican from Obsidian.

Todays the day the First Robotics Rapid React competition is revealed.

A short article on how to work with images so they display correctly in Obsidian and when published with Pelican.

I created an Air Quality Index gadget made from a Raspberry Pi Zero W with a tiny OLED screen from Adafruit. It shows the AQI from my local PurpleAir sensor. I created a Flask web server on the Pi so I could remotely see the AQI and change the PurpleAir sensor ID.

It's been in the works for awhile, but today I updated my production server settings to show the new website based on the Pelican static site generator.

A quick chart showing the different iPhone resolutions.

Tips and ideas on best way to publish a static site generated with Pelican using the Makefile and creating Obsidian commands.

The ping command is a built in linux and macOS command that shows the performance of the network connection to a remote server. It can be used to log network performance issues over time. The default ping command displays the results to standard output (the shell window). Used with the …

For a long time I've wanted a quick way to save text snippets in a timestamped, quickly searchabe form. Today I created a Better Touch Tool keyboad shortcut to save text snippets to a specific DayOne journal.

Here are the details on github so that you too can enjoy this …

How to install Ubuntu Desktop on Raspberry Pi 4 | Ubuntu

Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things.

Install Ubuntu Desktop on Raspberry Pi 4

Covers the basics of updating your Pi 4 to USB boot …

So, Jason Snell got me hooked on BitBar (BitBar (by Mat Ryer - @matryer) lets you put the output from any script/program in your Mac OS X Menu Bar.) and I've been working on a plugin ever since. Here's a quick way to get your current Wi-Fi SSID.

function display-ssid …

I just installed Nodemon in my development Docker container. Here are the details.

Game developers need a quick and easy server solution. Docker, nodejs, mysql, sqlite, socket.io are working great for me. This is part of my upcoming series on how to make it all work. Its way, WAY …

Configure Ghost and Prism to provide code syntax highlighting for all popular formats including javascript, php, html, css, markdown and more.

Ghost is a great CMS and it's easy to add a code syntax highlighter such as Prism.

Versions

Ghost version 3.3
Prism version 1.21

Prism

There are …

Apple released the details of their iOS security and all we get from the news is crickets. Think about this a moment. We have more important information on-line then we have ever had in the history of the world. It has always been at risk and there are daily news …

Everyone is designing a new watch that looks and acts just like an old watch. Look at Pebble, look at Samsung. They don’t get it. If Apple were to design a new watch it wouldn’t look and act like an old watch with just a few features added …

I just purchased a new wireless IP camera from Amazon and it works great. I didn't use any of the software that came with the camera and I did it all with my Macbook or I could have done it all with my iPhone or iPad.

IP Cameras

I've been …

I'm not really big into making predictions but there are several technology forces all coming together that will lead to significant changes in our society in the next few years.

1. Robotics - Take Apple's Siri and Honda's Asimo and you could have a really useful robot assistant around the house …