To anticipate and prevent
After 3.5 fun filled years, it is unfortunately time for me to depart from the Smule family. There have been great changes, both for me and the world, with many fond memories. I can’t possibly recount them all in a single blog entry, but I wanted to share a few thoughts.
Yesterday was the keynote for WWDC 2020, the yearly Apple developer conference. While nothing in the keynote was that surprising, there were some interesting tidbits which signal solid direction in the way Apple is advancing. One of the most interesting “experiments” will be the long awaited convergence of mobile, tablet, & computing platforms.
Rarely have I written here about the greater geopolitical state of the world. The few times that something has come up in that vaguely political area, it’s been specifically related to technology. However, COVID-19 is changing our world at a rate unlike anything we’ve seen in our lifetimes. It’s certainly making life “interesting” in ways…
At work, I’ve been spending more time on video calls with our Eastern European office. In order for it to be a reasonable time of day for the team, my calls are either very early in the morning or very late at night. To make sure that both sides get the most out of the…
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After a lengthy run of using WordPress and a fair amount of time with basically no posts, I wanted to start the new year off right by bringing the blog back to some semblance of it’s former glory. Unfortunately that meant grappling with a wildly newer version of WordPress with an editor that had changed…
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Continuing our series from last week, we’re going to package up the Wemos D1 Mini and the BME280 Environmental sensor on a perfboard, with batteries. Or at least that was the plan until we ran into a software bug… which could have been fixed. Until… well, watch the video and count how many ways this…
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