Computers

UPDATED: 30/3/2020 A few days before Christmas might be a funny time to try migrate from Github Pages over to Gitlab. Just for the moment, if you’re looking for the Roman Martyrology try:

Working Online Demo Etsy is a pretty and useful platform for selling handmade stuff. It isn’t always the most powerful platform for getting things done, but there are lots of commercial third party programs to help out.

This morning’s diversion was setting up a chat server on the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi is a gadget that seems so full of possibilities, but hard to settle on one idea to run with.

Yesterday saw my first installment in the Living Learning Coding Class. I prepared a server with The genome game which touched on binary coding Blockly Games, which will help with the building blocks for making games Things I installed, but didn’t use:

I’ve figured out a way to cut my hosting costs with Github Pages, Form Spree and Feedburner. So now, if you would like to subscribe to Brandt Lab updates, you can use the RSS link down the lower right of this page, or subscribe by email.

A few years ago I tried installing Moodle on my shared web hosting only to find out that you need more than regular shared hosting to run Moodle. The other way was to run one of our at home computers as a web server.

Last night I showed the boys some minature crochet animals from SuAmi. They immediately searched out crochet hooks and began making chain. Peter asked if he gave them some scrap metal and an arc welder whether they would immediately start making pedal cars as well.

This page started life as an incoherent test post, but turns out to be one of the most popular articles, so here goes making it coherent. The first thing to do to get your hotpotato up on your Wordpress blog is to upload it.

To be fair, this post is more to start a Computers category so that my old post on hotpotatoes in wordpress has a better home. But, if I can give one piece of advice for all your computing aspirations, it probably would be to Use Linux.