I’m Andrew Chao, a programmer and mathematician, building things and breaking them.
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Hello World #2: Migrating the Website
I’ve previously been using Ghost as the primary software for my website, although that has turned out to be a questionable decision. Software support was fine and the service was stable enough, but general experience of trying to get it to work nicely with Docker (and security updates) has made it a bit of a…
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It’s the New Year!
I haven’t been keeping up with regular posts recently, but here is a update on what I’ve been doing recently and what is going to happen moving forward. A Change in Mentality… Last year was a doozy, and after 2020 I’m quite sure everyone has lost the ball when it comes to time. Remote work,…
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Sleep States
When I first got my own computer, it was a refurbished Windows laptop built to last all of 4 years. It wasn’t particularity fast or well built, but it was mine. I wasn’t so well versed with technology back then, and kept most everything at stock settings. This led to some unusual issues – sometimes…
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IoT Sensors with InfluxDB
I’ve discovered rather that microprocessors are rather cheap these days, and development kits that originally went for 20$ – 50$ can now be had for less than 10$. An ESP32 averages 6$ and the Pico series is roughly in the same place. Why would I would even need such a thing? I have other, significantly…
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Check Your Backups!
If you are reading this, check your backups right now. Is it a pain? Will it be a bigger pain if you lose all your data? Check your backups! (In a twist of delicious irony, Hello World #2 is also going to be about backups…) If you’re looking for a Hello World #1, it doesn’t…