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2019

11 Sep, 2019

Running FastLED on the Dual-Core ESP32


There are many projects posted over the web which implement the excellent FastLED library on the ESP12 processor; however locating a project which implements this on the more powerful sibling is a lot more difficult.

So, with a few failed attempts …

17 Aug, 2019

Configure Wireguard on UniFi USG

Install the Wireguard Package

SSH directly to your USG, and run the following commands:

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29 Jan, 2019

Updating Pester on Windows 10


I spend the majority of my time working on my Windows machines, and for many scenarios, I find it difficult to complain. However, when Windows decides to dig the boot in and not co-operative; usually is when I grab my Mac Book and get the work done. …

14 Jan, 2019

Waking Deamons


With a multitude of Raspberry PI’s deployed around the house, each taking a dedicated duty in ensuring that services run transparently; It is not uncommon for me to discover the initialization scripts designed to have these services auto start at …

4 Jan, 2019

Configure VS Code with Azure Cloud Shell


After years living in tools like Visual Studio, and PowerShell; Currently my primary landing ground is Visual Studio Code. With my target audience firmly defined as Azure; In this post I am going to share my notes on how to get these two tools …

2 Jan, 2019

Welcome to 2019


First, allow me to thank all of you that are continuing to read this blog; despite the drought which I am predicting has now passed. I have a long list of topics which I wish to address in detail throughout the year; focused on the areas which I am …

2018

12 Dec, 2018

Fixing Calendar Chaos


Assuringly I am not alone, when we sit down as a family and talk about our day, and the plan for the next days or the weekend; only to realise that we have some real scheduling issues; because you totally forgot that you would take the children to …

6 Dec, 2018

My Journey to the Internet of Things


In a previous post, I referred to an embedded device which is called a NodeMCU. This device is a developer kit, designed to make it easy to develop and test programs for the embedded ESP8266 System on a Chip. Many manufacturers are offering both …

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