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Menu Close Menu Categories Infrastructure Play a sound when the Internet is down Post author By jtw90210 Post date 2021 0306 No Comments on Play a sound when the Internet is down We have a Windows machine recording frames from a time lapse camera, and we want the computer to play a sound when the camera is unavailable, because of either the camera or the network. We figured out a way to do this. We can also use it to let us monitor the house internet so […]
By jtw90210 Post date 2020 1116 1 Comment on Multiline Scripts in YAML As you know from writing scripts in .gitlab-ci.yml, the YAML syntax can be a bit restrictive, and escaping characters can make your eyes bleed. I discovered a phenomenally useful feature in YAML syntax. Strings can be built with less escaping by starting the string with a > or | operator. > takes the lines that follow and joins them with […]
BASH , GitLab , YAML Categories Coding Behold the Herd Immunity COVID-19 Calculator and Tutorial Post author By jtw90210 Post date 2020 1027 No Comments on Behold the Herd Immunity COVID-19 Calculator and Tutorial We have been hearing a lot about building herd immunity against the Coronavirus, and a lot about React, a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. So we decided to combine the two to make a calculator that will help us compare the “wear a damn mask” against the “everybody gets it” scenario