⛽ It wasn't the battery…

While the main issue was not the battery, it still needed to be replaced. Over the weekend, I went to the Mac in the morning, and when trying to leave, my truck did the same thing where it would not turn over. I ended up calling Nicole and having her pick me up and take me home, where I could call around and get it towed to Docs Automotive in Okemos, as they had done work for me in the past. ...

January 30, 2024 · 2 min · 239 words · shelby

🚶How far did I walk in 2023…

While I know it’s not a huge accomplishment, I am still pretty proud that I have been keeping up my yearly tradition of posting about how much I have walked over the past year ( And it seems like each year, I am adding more stats as available.) And just like how I did this before, once I had the CSV and imported it into Numbers, I created a totals row and used the SUM function to generate the totals for each dataset. Alas, without further ado, here are the results. ...

January 1, 2024 · 1 min · 170 words · shelby

🎰 Revisiting: WordCamp Las Vegas 2011

I came across this picture taken at WordCamp Las Vegas 2011; this was the first WordCamp I have ever personally organized. It’s interesting to see some of the faces in the picture, many of which are still involved in WordPress.

December 30, 2023 · 1 min · 40 words · shelby

✍🏻 Can I has more blog?

So, I am not sure how far this will go, if far at all, but I have had the itch to start blogging more again… I am going to “attempt” to take a page from Chris Wiegman and try to write something every day ( Likely starting this coming year). It will be like the 100-day blogging challenges I have done in the past, just longer ( I hope). I hope that during this attempt, it becomes a daily thing that I do without having to remind myself or, better yet, force myself to complete it. ...

December 12, 2023 · 1 min · 124 words · shelby

🐠 Automating my aquarium. Part 2 - Adding a Camera

While tinkering with the Automating my aquarium 2.0 I figured it would be nice to order a new Pi camera as for the life of me I was not able to find the old camera. I also ordered an extension cable for the camera to get a little more length also avoiding the connection being too snug based on where the Pi is located. Previously I used webcamserver which I can no longer find, and I am sure it has been discontinued. However I came across a gist that made mention of motion which from the first look seems like this will be a good option to setup a webcam server. ...

November 2, 2023 · 1 min · 111 words · shelby