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Dave Gauer
Howdy, I’m Dave Gauer. I’ve worked in web technologies since the late 1990s. Some interests: computer programming of all kinds, Linux/BSD/Unix, art, books (genre fiction, computing, history, biographies, art monographs), film, music (metal!), boardgames, and watching small creatures in the back yard.
Latest Posts
I resisted the urge as long as I could. Because Dave Doesn't Need Another Hobby. But needle felting is cool! I'm updating this page as I make progress. (This post is mostly pictures with descriptions.)
RSS Club* Exclusive followup to the previous "nosurf" post. Great news, everybody!
This was just a "shower thought", but it turned into into an IndieWeb "reply". For that reason, I'm adding it to this feed. :-)
I already knew this, but sometimes it's really pleasant to turn yourself into a factory worker on your own project...
After tiring of jumping through ridiculous hoops to privately share Wordle results with family, I created a really simple Perl CGI application to do the job... This is what software would be like in a utopia.
Okay, I've done it! I've started a Zettelkasten. Only, I'm not following anybody's rules. I'm just calling these "cards". I'm already loving this. (Oh, and just so you know, all content up there right now was plotted out on actual paper...
I call it my "log system" and I've been keeping it for almost a decade. Read all about my notebooks (96 and counting), the digital transcription, and the meaning of life. And pictures of notebooks!
I had a dream: * A low power, always-on computer I could SSH into from any other computer in the house. * All of my projects and data in Git repos available for cloning and updating from any computer in the house. * My personal...
*RSS Club Exclusive** Hi, my name is Dave and I have a Web surfing problem.
*RSS Club Exclusive** This is a bit of a rant, but I want to get it off my chest and I'm tired of unloading this stuff on my long-suffering wife.
Really pleased with how easy it is to examine the parts of the voxel destruction physics game Teardown. Gotta "hack" games for the kids, you know. :-)
Over the last three months, I've developed an unusual little nighttime routine: after reading bedtime stories to the kids, I hop into bed and instead of reaching for a fiction book, I'm turning on my 14-year old Asus eeePC 701 miniature...
I'm very excited to have finished a hardware project: a productivity "multitimer" based on the Raspberry Pi Pico (PR2040 microcontroller). It has a keypad for timer categories and LCD display for elapsed minutes in each category. It is...
Websites with designs that appear to end at the bottom of the screen have always been a problem. But I've run into some examples lately that have actually confused me.
I'm making good on my earlier promise to start publishing more of my notes in public so others can benefit from them and where I am more likely to find them myself! Here's my notes from today's excursion into getting Apache working with...