A few years ago I started slowly transforming my house into a "Smart House". It started with some friends of ours showing us their smart bulbs and how they could tell Alexa to turn them on and off. I'll admit, I was skeptical of how smart bulbs could be life…
C++ doesn't support getter/setter style properties. But you can get pretty darn close with templates or macros. #include <iostream> #include "properties.h" using namespace std; class User { private: int mId; int mWeight; int mPurse; int mBank; public: // Non-auto property only supporting get (runtime check) Property<int&…
I ran across The "do not be alarmed" clock on HackerNews and thought that would be a fun little project to play around with. It's been an awful long time since I've done anything with hardware and I haven't played with anything "Arduino" yet so I made my way over…
So we're expecting a baby here in the next week or two and my wife wanted a shelf/armoire/ambry(?) thing that matched our crib and changing dresser (see pictures of the store bought crib and dresser below). I drew up some plans in the free version of SketchUp and…
I switched from Chrome to Firefox a few months ago. For the most part...it feels roughly the same but there was one subtle difference that finally irked me to the point of googling: having to right click on a tab to close it. In Chrome, when you hover over…
My day job involves a lot of .NET Core development and a whole lot of logging. As a result, I've become accustomed to having logs when I need them. When working on pet projects I usually don't spend as much time on the "niceties" of life. Lately I've started doing…
So the other day I was working on transforming streams for an encryption layer for work. I ended up having some code that looked similar to this: public async Task SendAsync(byte[] data, Delegate next) { using (var stream = ...) { using (var encryptStream = ...) { using (var encodeStream = ...) { using (var reader = ...) { await next(...); } } } } } public…
I've recently started going through this brilliant article on creating your own text editor (read: nano/pico clone). If you've never built one this article breaks it down into easy to follow chunks. If you do go through it, you might notice the same thing I did. Page Up and…