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

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…

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 1119 (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…