Fix platformio avrdude input/output error

I have get to work on the very low priority side project with the codename bee weighter yesterday. It is not meant to weight the actual bees, but instead their entire house to determine if it is a full of honey that could be extracted. However, I got greatly slowed down by the un…

Insights from the Google Search Console

For now, I have enabled the Google Search Console on this blog, mainly because I do not have a search yet, but I like to reference my previous posts related to the topic at hand. And for now, I have been using Google search to quickly find where I was writing about this or that. …

Using UUID in an Atom feed

This a again blend of my previous post announcing a feed and a post before discussing an uuid commad. The fact these two came one after each other is not coincidence, even though they seem to have very little in common. So what is the connection between the Atom feed and the Univ…

My blog has a Feed now!

A few days ago, Ru asked me if the RSS on my blog is available. Hint: it wasn't. Go check Ru's work by the way. She is actually investing a lot of thoughts into whatever she's doing, so expect to find something worthwhile around her. But the fact is, this blog's feature list is…

Cheatsheet: uuid

Today I've learned about the different versions of Universally Unique IDentifiers (UUID) and decided to compile a short cheatsheet for the uuid command supplied by the Open Source Software Project (OSSP). Note that there is also uuidgen command that is supported by the util-linux…

Markdown posts by word count in bash

I wanted to quickly overview the word count on my blog posts to roughly calculate the possible translation count and here's a one-liner I have come up with: find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.md" -exec printf "{} " \; -exec ~/.local/bin/mwc {} \; | awk '{…

On federated code hosting

I have written a little about the possibility of Single-Sign-On (SSO) for Gitea getting closer to being a reality. Today I have stumbled upon a relatively different approach that I have found interesting: federated code hosting. While still in the draft phase, the concept seems r…