Pantrific is coming along. My primary focus has been on site navigation over the past few weeks. I decided to embrace Material design and things are looking decent. The navigation aspect is a bit confusing though. The plan is to have a navigation drawer for major feature areas and then …

I started working on Pantrific again a couple of weeks ago with Dwayne. The original codebase was written using AngularJS for the front-end and Java with JEE for the back-end. The new codebase is being written with Angular for the front-end and NodeJS / Express / Mongo / TypeScript for the back-end. The …

Code Along Blog

Dwayne and I got together on Monday night to talk about the future of Code Along Blog. We both decided it was time to call it quits.

We've been at it for roughly 6 months with barely 1 viewer per stream. Even the videos on YouTube barely …

At work I've been looking at ways to further organize our codebase. The team had adopted an MVVM approach prior to my joining it but did not take advantage of data binding. Data binding allows one to reference and access their view models from the layout files. I'm still trying …

Synaptik Labs

The final video of Start Page 2.0 project was uploaded on Monday. It didn't take very long at all to get it installed on my Unraid server. I was actually hoping to host the docker image locally, but it was much easier to upload it to Dockerhub …

Synaptik Labs

Episode 8 of the Start Page 2.0 project was uploaded earlier this week. The entire project is now "built" and ready to be thrown into a Docker image. The last episode is coming up soon.

I continue to receive both positive and negative feedback on my videos …

Synaptik Labs

I finished episode 7 of the Start Page 2.0 project. It was the start of wrapping things up. Instead of hard coding values like the API host and database connection info, these are now dynamic. The server pulls properties from the environment and falls back to a …

Synaptik Labs

I haven't made any progress here due to focusing on locking down my home network and my server that hosts this site. I'm currently writing a "log ingester" that will pull various system log files into a MySQL database then graph the results in Grafana. Grafana is hard …

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Two more videos were uploaded. I was hoping to upload one per day, but the hack event I blogged about yesterday put a stop to that. I am still in the process of getting a development environment back up and running. Prior to the hack, I kept my …

Earlier this week after I woke up, I saw that my computer was on. At first I thought it was playing a video but didn't understand why it would be. Anyway, after a purchase was made on Amazon to the tune of $500 I noticed it was logged in to …