posts & updates

Computer Parts for Sale - Lawrence, KS

I recently switched to a Dell XPS 15 as my daily driver. So, I'm parting-out my other machines that I don't use.

If you live in or near Lawrence, KS, and have any interest, I'm offering pretty good prices for a budget gaming rig:

• Radeon RX460 4GB GPU
• Corsair CX550M PSU
• Zalman MS800 ATX Mid-tower case

Feed Page, RSS, & Atom - Minor Website Updates I recently made some tweaks to my website. I added a dedicated page as a historical archive for these updates.

I also added the ability to subscribe to this feed using RSS, Atom, and JSON thanks to a handy NPM package.

VuES6 - ES6 Vue.js Components, in Plain JavaScript

I recently released a small utility library for defining Vue components as proper ES6 classes, but in vanilla JavaScript. I like to use this in small projects where I don't want to have to set up vue-cli and compile templates. More info here.

Connect-4 Webtoy

I've built a simple Connect-4 webtoy as a project for EECS 368 at the University of Kansas. You can play with it here.

Code Freedom with Gitea & Drone - Part I

In my never-ending quest to self-host all the things, I've deployed a combination of Gitea and Drone CI for a feature-for-feature, self-hosted alternative to GitHub. Here's how.

Noded - Free-Form Notes & Databases

I recently attended the annual University of Kansas hackathon, where me and a couple friends built Noded.

Noded is a tree-based note taking app based on reusable page elements. It provides support for basic notes, uploaded files, a built-in code editor, customizable databases, static website exports, and sub-tree sharing. Check it out here.

flitter-di@0.1

Flitter-DI is the second-generation dependency-injector used by the Flitter framework. It was pulled from the libflitter project in the hope that it can remain independent from the rest of Flitter and can be used in other projects. More info here.

Dependency Injection in Less Than 100 Lines of Pure JavaScript

DI is a powerful pattern for segmenting code to keep it efficient and easy to reuse. In this article, we're going to build a basic DI in <100 lines of pure ES6. Read about it here.

A New Platform - My Relentless Pursuit of Privacy

I've finally moved the home of my blog from Medium.com over to a self-hosted Hexo blog. Why? Read more here.

flitter-auth@0.13

This release of Flitter's auth provider brings an OAuth2 server, OAuth2 client, and refinements to the login flow structure. More details here.

Computing in the Kubernetes Framework

Recently I had the pleasure of presenting at the University of Kansas' Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis Weekly Colloquium. You can find resources from my talk on using k8s for scientific computing here.

Building a Raspberry Pi Cluster - Part 3

In the third installment of my miniature-HPC series, we discuss OpenMPI, Python3, and running parallel jobs. Read more here.