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Going to order my hope punch and heating element. Maybe a low-voltage logic relay. Minimal. I think Sparkfun mentioned something about doing this. I’ll look around.
Going to convert my brew kettle to electric.

Got that going. Ghetto self signed certificate, way too small, but it works. Do I need it though?
I should check the Thing, see if it’ll play nice there. If it will, why not?

I’m watching Stranger Things on Netflix with the Wif. I commented that not everyone has taken advanced Fanatical studies (including myself) in their classical education.
This did remind me I want to make a ceremonial blade at some point. Make a pattern. Depopulate PCBs. Laminate them together. Cut and grind. Sharpen. Wire wrap the handles. Maybe use some old ribbon cable. Grind in a bit. Add some traces. Add some components.

Probably should do https, at least that’s what I’m thinking would be a good next step.
That, or firing up the Thing.
One of those two.

Huh, all I had to do was change to the local IP address in the base example app.js. Super easy. Next I need to add some form of domain name lookup?

Nevermind. I changed the server name to the system name. We’re rolling.

Filesystem. I need (want) to access (read/write) a csv file. I’m saying CSV, but that’s mainly for testing. I’ll start easy. I’ll write some text to a file.

Right. Appending is working. Doing.

Well getting node.js to serve a very small “hello world” was ready enough. At least to a loopback address. Next, I need to have this be reachable by the local network. I think I know what I need to do there, just need to give it a poke.
I might need to look at my network configuration though, if not today then soon. As in, for what I’m doing now, but four security purposes, I’m tempted to lock everything to individual hardware devices.

So I’m realigning my goals. I have a tendency of getting grandiose in my goals. So I have a plan. I’m making smaller plans. Leave the plan at small. No embellishment. Once step is done, so the next step. Whatever the next plan is. Like I said, keep it small.
Right now it’s getting data logging done locally. Phant (from Sparkfun) isn’t paying nice. I think it’s a problem with ssh, but meh. I could do other things. I could go apache, but that’s a bit heavy handed I think. I’m looking at doing a minimal stand-alone install of node.js, which looks like it should work. At least that’s what I’m reading stackoverflow. I’ll give it a poke soon.
The hefeweizen turned out tasty, a little fruity, a little camel. Good enough.

I’m thinking it would be fun to build a weapon display case, not only for my bayonets, but also for the more mundane weapons of my hobby. Probably start with a sheet of plywood, and some stripping all around, embed LEDs, and a liner of velvet. Then it’s mounting time. I need elegance and strength. At first, I could use some probably stained dark, doweling. But I don’t think I want to rebuild the wheel over and over again.
I should look into which tools are going in and go from there.

I have a challenge. I need an action list that checks if something is somewhere, and if it is, it needs to be the letters RS. Sounds easy, except I can’t use if, and I can only have fails, not passes. So I get out all hammered out, and now it’s mostly working except when it chokes. Fuck. Now I just worked the second twelve in two days, and get to into work at 9am on a Saturday. It’s not terrible, but it’s kind of a buzzkill.
So I want to go in like gang busters.
Right now, I’m testing for something being somewhere by:
Change the page box to somewhere
Check if the page is empty
Change the page box back
Then, I select the content on that area and see if it’s RS

But I’m getting false negatives all around. He’ll I’m getting weird I’m just gonna freak out errors, which I wasn’t getting before. This tells me that the original is something RS was good, it’s the rest that’s an issue, or, it’s the number of steps. I’ve broken out the check if something is somewhere, but I had to leave before I could see how it ran. So tomorrow morning:
Did it work, if yes, add the other steps to it.
If no, reexamine the something somewhere code.
If that doesn’t work, try breaking out all the steps into individual tasks. The bitch is that each individual file works fine, it’s throwing 84 files at once into the fray, so each test takes about 7 minutes to find out what does or does not work. Doubling down, I’ll need to do a proper stress test which means adding in a lot more.files voting at once.
And, I wonder if there’s blanks in some of my files. That would totes give some false negatives. Not the freakouts, but at least false negatives.

A little bit of math while the Wif is out of town.
I think I’m drinking the bottles of beer a day
I’m still eating right about once a day
Bottles for me are about six for ten
So… I think I’m drinking as much as I’m eating
Funny stuff