Motorcycles & Photography

Running Kotlin Applications on a headless Raspberry Pi and other embedded systems

Kotlin is way more than just an Android programming language. And to show you I’ll explain how you can run Kotlin Applications on a headless Raspberry Pi. Preparing a Raspberry Pi I...

Updating MEROSS garage door opener to work locally only skipping cloud using my own HOME ASSISTANT MQTT broker

So after failing to use a simple Shelly 1 (v3) for my garage door automation I finally opted for a Meross smart device that is designed to do just that. At 30...

home assistant dashboard showing Energica data pushed over MQTT

How I’m pushing data from my Energica electric motorcycle to my Home Assistant installation

First a quick disclaimer, I’m literally writing this 3 days after the installation of my Home Assistant setup so I have little experience with that. Therefor many of the configuration details could...

Disk Drill data recovery app werkt goed (gelukkig maar)

Het overkomt de beste. Ik was een aantal foto’s kwijt. Ik had deze op een kaartje staan samen met een deel oudere foto’s. En toen ik die importeerde in lightroom zag ik...

configure error libusb headers missing

I got the below error while trying to build libnfc on a mac running mountain lion. configure: error: The libusb headers are missing I first checked if libusb what installed with macports....

Forecast weather API android lib

I used to call the google weather API within several Android apps. Until Google once decided to shut that service down. Since then I have been looking around for an alternative. I...

ActionBarCompat and NavigationDrawer example

I finally found some time to get the recently released support version of the Android ActionBar implemented. Also known as ActionBar Compat, with support back to Android 2.1 or api level 7....

AppleScript select RAW pictures iPhoto library

A quick appleScript I wrote to select all images from the current library that are from a certain type. The type is checked with the extension found in the path of the...

jade template with variable in element id

For most NodeJS projects I rely on Jade for rendering views. A quick example of how to generate a set of elements based on your data: ul each val in [1, 2,...

Apple OS X keyboard shortcuts

some shortcuts to remember. Original source: http://ss64.com/osx/syntax-keyboard.html OS X Keyboard Shortcuts Screen Capture to disk: 3 Screen to jpeg file on desktop 4 + Drag: Selection to jpeg file on desktop 4 +...