Programming Sanity

Background Earlier this year, in the spring, my house backup standby generator died. It was pretty old, and the generator company diagnosing...

Intro You know those old school driveway alarms? The ones you can put at the end of your driveway, which make a chime inside your house go o...

I'm a proud member of the post-covid work from home crew. I love working from home because of two main aspects: first, I have an office ...

I've always wanted to display our family calendar in a central location, like in the kitchen. Various options exist, but a powered displ...

I had a need to test out a program's behavior when its backend web server returned errors. Unit testing would have been difficult in thi...

I tend to create a huge number of branches in my git repositories, but I have a bad habit of not cleaning them up once I'm finished with...

Google Cloud Storage has a feature called Signed URLs , which allows you to use your private key file to authorize access to a specific oper...