Since there has been a huge burst of new activity out there, and everyone has been doing #introductions I guess I should (re)do a hashtag-laden #introduction of my own.
I am a mid-century modern weirdo from #YYC aka #Calgary#Alberta#Canada that runs https://coales.co Hometown/Mastodon site out of the garage in his back yard (the servers are literally bolted to the ceiling in there...told you I was weird)
That said I often (sometimes mostly) post random and sometimes weird stuff. Occasionally political but put it behind content warnings. I am generally #AntiAuthoritarian and I dunno maybe #mutualist if I had to label it.
Die zweite Auflage meine Buches über #Sphinx ist erschienen.
"Sphinx ist ein leistungsfähiges Werkzeug für die Dokumentation von Software. Ursprünglich geschrieben, um die Programmiersprache #Python zu dokumentieren, entwickelte sich Sphinx in der Python-Community schnell zum Standard. "
Temperatur und Luftfeuchtigkeit mit DHT22 am Raspberry Pi messen
Temperatur und Luftfeuchtemessung mit DHT22-Sensor am Raspberry Pi. Python-Code mit Fehlerbehandlung (DHT22 liefert nicht immer beim ersten Lesen), Cron-Automation, Cacti-SNMP-Integration. System seit ueber 11 Jahren stabil im Einsatz.
Stromverbrauch messen mit Raspberry Pi, Eltako DSZ12E und Cacti
Stromverbrauch mit Raspberry Pi und Eltako DSZ12E-3x80A messen: S0-Schnittstelle, GPIO-Impulszähler, Python und SNMP für Cacti. Mit Update 2026 zu intelligenten Messsystemen, Shelly 3EM und Home Assistant als heute typische Alternativen.
Having just typed the original title of this blog post ‘Data as Art’ I realize it is probably the millionth blog to share it. A minor modification should help to identify it among the countless others…
This week, as the newly founded Open Data Institute (ODI) embraces data-as-culture I am reminded about a visualization I attempted a short while back – visualizing prime numbers.
NOTE: this was written on a different version of this blog many years ago and may contain outdated links and references.
Over at desperately unenterprise there is a nice article about the things the author dislikes about haskell, and an invitation to share your own quirks about your favourite language. Well, I almost equally like ruby and python. so here is a double rant.