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The Simple Pleasures of a Mobile Office Whiteboard
I’ve built a lot of stuff for my home office over the last few years of working from home, but my current favorite is something so simple: A custom rolling whiteboard A couple of weeks ago I gave myself a Saturday challenge to take my existing old whiteboard and build a rolling stand for it only with materials I had in my workshop.
Read moreI Made Myself a JARVIS Over the Weekend
With some spare parts, a USB speakerphone, and my Home Assistant server, I was able to make a competent JARVIS for my home office over the weekend…and the exciting part is that it’s only going to keep getting better! Last year was the “Year of Voice” for Home Assistant, the open source home automation platform, and the team accomplished a ton of work that enables Home Assistant users to make their own voice assistants.
Read moreEgg.js Hits 1,500 GitHub Stars
I love putting easter eggs in the applications I write, and years ago I wrote the Egg.js javascript library to make that easier. My little silly library is used around the globe and it has 1,500 stars on GitHub! Anyway, here’s a video I made about it.
Read moreI Made an Arcade Cabinet
As a kid in the 80s and 90s there were a few things that you could see in a friend’s house that would immediately impress you. Examples would be, a second fridge, usually in the garage, one of those big projection TVs, or, and this is the big one, a full stand-up arcade cabinet.
Read moreBuilding a Mastodon Client in to my Cyberpunk SSH App
Let me quickly get you up to speed: I wanted to build a website for my hacker projects, but instead of a website I ended up building an SSH app (because I’m weird). Basically, instead of visiting it in your web browser you have to open your terminal, run an SSH command, and then you use text commands to play with the application, read about my projects, etc.
Read moreWhat’s New in Shortcuts - Issue 55
Thank you to Matthew Cassinelli for giving my Post to Mastodon shortcut a nod in the New Year’s Eve edition of his “What’s New in Shortcuts” newsletter. If you’re interested in Shortcuts or macOS/iPadOS/iOS automation, this is a newsletter worth checking out.
Read moreThe Topsy Project for DEFCON 30
This year at DEFCON, the hacker convention, I joined the Hard Hat Brigade with Topsy, a hard hat that entertains while scanning the wifi environment. Here’s a video I made walking through the basics: I didn’t cover it specifically in the video, but you might be asking: “Um, why?” My answer is: “Why not?
Read moreMy Bat Phone Holiday Project
With three kids I don’t need a holiday break project to give me something to do like I used to, but I do still like to find something on my list and give it a time limit so I can use the time to accomplish something fun and improve some non-day job skills.
Read moreA Home Office DND Button
I’m extremely fortunate that I have a true home office at our house. It’s my favorite room in our whole place with an both an internal door and a door to to the back yard, and it affords me plenty of room to store my various projects and geeky collections. Of course, the most important aspect of my home office is that it’s a room where I can get some time work on…well…these days I work on work in there.
Read moreThe Studio71 Office Screens
Update: I forgot to mention it in the post, but if there is any interest I could release a generic version to the store and/or the source code to the app. Let me know: @thatmikeflynn I love screens. You love screens. Developers love screens! We have at least two or three on our desk and when that’s not enough we like to hang them all over the place so no matter where we look there’s a screen in there somewhere.
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