Completed my first mod for the Ariel Rider. Designed and printed an adapter to use the taillights. The turn signals themselves are these guys off of Amazon, but I needed to repurpose the tube adapter to make sure that it could be mounted high enough to be visible. https://amzn.to/3wKMCqC Overall, pretty happy, but definitely not…
Month: March 2022
New contract!
Started working on a new contract, this client wants a web service that seems kinda redundant, but if he’s got the market for it – hopefully it does well. Is there a way to tell people that they want to build something that already exists, but still have them pay you for it? Such a…
Bought an e-bike!
So today, I took delivery of my first electric bike. An Ariel Rider X52. It’s unbelievable how much I love this thing. Cruising around on a pseudo-motorcycle at about 25mph is amazing. I even got a typical “motorcycle wave” from a guy on an actual motorcycle. Kinda blew my mind. It was cold as can…
project
Today I shipped out my first batch of prototypes for <REDACTED>. I dunno what they’re going to use them for, but they got all kinds of neat potential on both sides of the moral compass. One item could be described as a self-defense weapon, but could also be considered a utility item. Legal? Probably? I…
Joplin Sync Test
WordPress (and the internet as a whole) really is a unique beast, I had gotten a monthly summary of data usage from Cloudflare for activity on the page, I had completely forgotten to configure email alerts for things like comments. Opening up the WordPress dashboard showed me I was missing out on a bunch of…
A little disappointing
Apparently, my Joplin scraper crashed at one point and stopped posting. It looks like there was a power outage that restarted the raspberry pi it was running on and I must have forgotten to add it to cron. Oh well. More to come should be fixed now.