r0b's random ramblings

Deploying ESP32 with SPIFFS using github actions

Friday, 25 November 2022

Playing around with ESP32s has led to some interesting automations to make the whole process easier.

ESM Node.js TypeScript with subpath exports

Saturday, 5 November 2022

ES Modules are the future, now you can use them in TypeScript and publish them on NPM with subpaths.

Getting started with kube-prometheus-stack

Wednesday, 2 February 2022

I recently added monitoring and alerting to my Kubernetes stack to discover and respond to failures faster. It took me way too long so here's what I did and learned along the way.

Creating custom JavaScript errors

Sunday, 12 September 2021

Custom errors are a powerful tool in JavaScript. Here's how to create them with modern ES classes and static methods.

Creating a Nova Extension with TypeScript

Sunday, 25 July 2021

I've been playing a lot with Nova recently, here's my experiences and best practices for creating Nove extensions with TypeScript.

Bundle JavaScript with Eleventy and esbuild

Sunday, 27 June 2021

How to add JavaScript and bundle it together for an Eleventy project plus integration with the development server for automatic reloading.

Compile Sass with eleventy

Tuesday, 25 May 2021

How to add Sass/Scss to an Eleventy project and integrate it with the development server for automatic reloading.

Quick Array to Map Conversion in JavaScript

Sunday, 28 February 2021

How to quickly and concisly convert a JavaScript Array into a Map to enable efficient lookups.

Running Node.Js as a systemd service

Monday, 16 November 2020

I had a Node.js app that I wanted to run when my Raspberry Pi Zero started up in a minimal manor. Here's how I created a systemd service to do it.

My first generator function

Saturday, 25 July 2020

I finally did it, I found a use for JavaScript's generator functions, wrote one and now its deployed!

Automating developer operations for Node.js

Friday, 10 April 2020

I've been working on my GitOps for a while now and wanted to document it all in one place.

Tales from the bashrc: d1

Saturday, 28 March 2020

One of my most used bashrc commands, docker-run-once-interactively or d1

Useful Raspberry Pi WiFi dommands

Saturday, 21 March 2020

I keep needing these commands when doing pi things, so I thought I'd put them here in one place

Spoofing a Raspberry Pi's mac address

Saturday, 22 February 2020

Sometimes you just want to fake a raspberry pi's mac address to appear as something else on the network. This is how to do that.

Tales from the bashrc: bashrc

Thursday, 13 February 2020

I added a command to make adding commands easier.

Connecting a Raspberry pi to 802.1x WiFi

Monday, 3 February 2020

I've been playing around with Pis while on University Pi's recently so I want to document this non-simple process.

Tales from the bashrc: npr

Monday, 27 January 2020

I added a new alias to my repertoire to make running npm commands more usable.

A minimal kiosk mode for a Raspberry Pi

Monday, 20 January 2020

When you need a Raspberry Pi to just display a webpage, you don't really need an entire operating system and window manager. This was my solution.

Using jsx WITHOUT React

Sunday, 12 January 2020

I wanted to do some lightweight javascript recently and didn't want to use a massive framework. Creating all my DOM elements manually was laborious and ugly so I setup jsx to do it for me.