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

Google Earth lets you view your property and add layers containing objects you add to represent areas and points. But what if you want to add the official boundaries from your property’s title? Here’s how. It’s probable that the .zip file you received contains many…

Here’s a super affordable differential probe I’m making for high voltage circuits. If you’re reading this, you probably know what a differential probe is, and why you want one, but just in case you don’t: Basically, if you’re working on a high voltage / mains…

So, I’m looking to buy some land for a farm. Something with a house where I can be largely self-sufficient. I want to grow food and pasture and trees, and have a cow and some sheep, so one important criterion is rainfall. I have a…

Did you know you can add your own functions to a Google Sheet spreadsheet? Let’s say you have a list of place names (which for this example just happen to be libraries): And let’s say you want to find the latitude and longitude for these…

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…