r0b's random ramblings

This is a place for me to jot down thing's I've experimented with and document them for my future self ... or other people too I guess.

Running Node.Js as a systemd service

Monday, 16 November 2020

I had a Node.js app that I wanted to run when my Raspberry Pi Zero started up in a minimal manor. Here's how I created a systemd service to do it.

My first generator function

Saturday, 25 July 2020

I finally did it, I found a use for JavaScript's generator functions, wrote one and now its deployed!

Automating developer operations for Node.js

Friday, 10 April 2020

I've been working on my GitOps for a while now and wanted to document it all in one place.

Tales from the bashrc: d1

Saturday, 28 March 2020

One of my most used bashrc commands, docker-run-once-interactively or d1

Useful Raspberry Pi WiFi dommands

Saturday, 21 March 2020

I keep needing these commands when doing pi things, so I thought I'd put them here in one place

Spoofing a Raspberry Pi's mac address

Saturday, 22 February 2020

Sometimes you just want to fake a raspberry pi's mac address to appear as something else on the network. This is how to do that.

Tales from the bashrc: bashrc

Thursday, 13 February 2020

I added a command to make adding commands easier.

Connecting a Raspberry pi to 802.1x WiFi

Monday, 3 February 2020

I've been playing around with Pis while on University Pi's recently so I want to document this non-simple process.

Tales from the bashrc: npr

Monday, 27 January 2020

I added a new alias to my repertoire to make running npm commands more usable.

A minimal kiosk mode for a Raspberry Pi

Monday, 20 January 2020

When you need a Raspberry Pi to just display a webpage, you don't really need an entire operating system and window manager. This was my solution.

Using jsx WITHOUT React

Sunday, 12 January 2020

I wanted to do some lightweight javascript recently and didn't want to use a massive framework. Creating all my DOM elements manually was laborious and ugly so I setup jsx to do it for me.