I had a bout of insomnia last night and decided to play with Docker. For the uninitiated, Docker is a like chroot on steroids. It allows for applications to be force to run within a specific context, disallowing them to break out of that context (where context can be CPU allocation, hardware allocation, filesystem scoping, etc.). […]
Newegg.com has a good deal on an HDHomeRun Prime (HDHR) at the moment (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815345006) and it comes with a free wireless router as well. I’ve been pretty happy with my HDHR and it’s assistance in cutting some cords. I do still pay for limited basic cable which is something like $20/mo. Since I have the […]
Found some time to work on pimometer this weekend. Made some decent progress. Our original goal included leveraging a custom built django API, but upon further examining of our needs, we decided the MongoDB API was really all we needed. We now have a working WebUI (though it is a bit minimal at the moment), […]
The Birth of pimometer I don’t have too much to report on this yet, but I’ve been working on a Raspberry Pi project to monitor the status of a long BBQ or smoke out. It’s under the current working title of pimometer. Various design points are still being talked through, but I think we have the […]