Last week I applied for a new passport at the Dutch embassy. While these cost €64,- and take one to three days to be ready in the Netherlands, outside of the Netherlands, they cost €128,- and take three weeks. (But that's a whole different rant) When I applied, »
Adafruit recently opened up a beta for their Adafruit.io IoT Dashboard. This service provides a simple way to aggregate IoT data and create dashboards with various graphs with them. For a good introduction, have a lookat Jeremy Morgan's blog. I have started a while back to organize my own IoT projects »
A few days ago China published their new counter-terrorism law, and ever since the "red scare" propaganda has exploded all over the media. While I try to ignore most of it, it has been sad to see how many intelligent people (at least, I thought they were) fall for the same traps. »
One of my contacts in the WebID community alerted me to a very troubling proposal from Google, to remove support of the <keygen> HTML attribute, and support for the application/x-x509-*-cert MIME types. Members from the WebID community and others are attempting to fight Google for retaining this functionality, »
I had a very vivid dream last night of the period in my life I was homeless. In fact, it was of the first night I slept in the streets. I've never written about this, though it's a long time ago. Dreaming about it last night made me realize maybe I should »
This update actually covers my reading during both May and June. As mentioned previously, I haven't had the time to write my May update. So it's going to be a rather long list. 1. Susan Cain - Quiet The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking Being an introvert, »
After much trial and tribulation, my application for the Chinese Permanent Residence Permit ("Green Card") has finally been accepted today. This kicks off an investigation that can take up to a year or so, before I'll (hopefully) have my Green Card granted. Why? So far I've had to extend my temporary residence »
I've been playing with the NodeMCU development board a lot over the last couple of days, in particular, communicating with it through MQTT and connecting it to one of those tiny OLED display modules. NodeMCU has a very convenient facility to automatically run some code when the processor boots, by creating an »
While waiting for my NodeMCU development kit to arrive, I've started playing with the Lua programming language a bit. NodeMCU The NodeMCU kit is a development board build around the very popular ESP8266 WiFi modules that you can get for under $3 (depending on the variant). These modules have a fairly capable »
I have been neglecting my blog for a while. I have been spending a good deal of my free time on studying the Linux kernel, while working on the Eudyptula Challenge. This is a Linux kernel development challenge, that guides you through a series of increasingly complicated tasks in order to become »