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

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…

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…