I finished my PiCam project, and after it was live for a few days, I was bothered by what a pain it is to view images and video.  This little system already has a lot going on, so I wanted to create a simple, nearly static website to view images and video.  I decided to go with mustache templates because they make...

I have been learning Clojure [http://clojure.org/] and I am currently working through Clojure for the Brave and True [http://www.braveclojure.com/]. When I am learning a new language I like to have small challenge problems to solidify what I'm learning and to force me to solve practical problems. Learning to interact with the language via command line, handling file...

I like to create this list at the beginning of a new year and have been doing so for a couple [https://www.doyleyoung.net/2013-favorite-github-projects/] years [https://www.doyleyoung.net/2014-favorite-github-projects/]. I find this is the perfect time for me to talk about and filter through my starred GitHub projects. The hope is that others will find something useful and my...

For December, I was assigned Crypt::OpenSSL::VerifyX509 which is a simple verify-cert module, in XS. It provides certificate verification, along the lines of "openssl verify". The module itself is very small and I was unable to find a TODO or any obvious functionality improvements, but I noticed there were a few changes that could improve the kwalitee report. So, I pulled...

For November, I was assigned App::autotest [https://metacpan.org/pod/App::autotest] which is a program that monitors your tests and runs them whenever they are updated or created. The GitHub repo [https://github.com/glauschwuffel/perl5-App-autotest] had a number of existing issues and I chose the one that seemed to be the most devastating -> program crashes horribly if test...