| 2026-MAR |
WebView Bugs and How to Find Them |
It was Sunday, March 1, 2026. I am putting the finishing touches to my codemelted.com domains. At the center of those domains is my codemelted_web.js module, the module that ties all the domains together and provides a common app bar between the sites. |
| 2025-JUL |
I Went to Garden State Comic Fest |
It was Thursday, June 26, 2025. I packed up the Jeep and hit the Pennsylvania Turnpike to head out to see family in New Jersey. Thunderstorms hit about five hours into the trek, prompting an overnight hotel stop before wrapping up the drive Friday morning. |
| 2025-MAR |
Building a Pi Camera Based System |
From the Bringing an Idea to an MVP slide presentation implemented before COVID, I built an MVP prototype of a Raspberry Pi touch screen system for my 2006 Jeep Wrangler. The goal is to eventually one day travel to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Well I have a newer Jeep and the technology has gotten faster. This is the upgrade and evolution of this initial idea. |
| 2024-DEC |
A Comparison of High Speed ISPs |
In my early Internet days my fastest Internet I could get living in rural Colorado was AOL dial-up at 48.8 kilobits. Earthlink and MSN could not even compare. But then one day we got high speed Internet, A whole whopping 9 megabits up / down for a whopping $100 a month. Now we are cooking. This was the early 2000s. |
| 2019-AUG |
Bringing an Idea to a MVP |
Before COVID I had a plan with my 2005 Jeep TJ to make a trip to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Unfortunately we all know what happened with that. But the idea spurned a fun project I did for work that is carrying over into a new design with a hopeful new trip in 2023 or 2024 time frame. |
| 2018-JUN |
Chasing the Mythical Unicorn |
In every software engineering career you will encounter a job that leaves a lasting impression because things went well, or you had good teammates. You will also encounter jobs where nothing goes right, the manager is a pain, and nobody on the team pulls their wait. Then there is the mythical unicorn. A beast that does not exist in software engineering, but I got to experience one time. Where the project was delivered ahead of time, hit all quality metrics established by the contract, and under budget. |