Mitch's Notes: Technical stuff, and maybe even some recipes.

One way to write web-based client-server software is to run client software in the browser, which talks to back-end software via a RESTful interface: The client sends in HTTP form data, and the server responds with JSON. React is super-popular for writing the front-end part…

Bare metal Installation instructions here: https://docs.inventree.org/en/latest/start/install/ Here’s what I did different: Do the apt-get install of required system packages For Weasyprint: https://doc.courtbouillon.org/weasyprint/stable/first_steps.html apt install pango1.0-tools The rest of what Weasyprint needs will be auto-installed into the venv later. Create user with uid 1118 (to not…

Frickin' ChatGPT (even ChatGPT 5) is so damn frustrating. It's almost useful, to the point where it's useless, because it chews up so much time while you try to push it from nearly right to actually right. I've enlisted its help in doing some website…

So, if you need a package that’s part of your OS that didn’t get installed at install time, you can install them later with apt or dnf. And, some packages on your computer may be written in Python. The collection of software that makes up…

So an ongoing project of mine is an autopilot for my boat. Here’s the latest incarnation: The highest point on the board is the red fuse in the middle of the board, which is made even higher by the fuse holder underneath it. 21mm is…