Author: John Poole
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Air Force One Buzzes Peck Cottage
I have created a 3 dimensional model that depicts Air Force One (231′ long) buzzing Peck Cottage in a 1/2 mile radius going from an altitude of 100 to 500 and back to 100. To accomplish this, I am using a vector tile server I built using the MapLibre martin project and Threejs JavaScript. What…
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It Has Risen
My sourdough starter died due to a malfunction of the Brod & Taylor Sourdough Starter Home which overheated. I have a replacement now, but still working through the loss of my sourdough starter. One correspondent who also experienced such a loss expressed her condolences and shared her hope which I duly acknowledged. (Acknowledgment of condolences…
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Pups
Our two dogs, Winnie, the golden retriever, and Josie, the Bernese Mountain dog. Both are female, enjoy long walks, romping around, and pan fried leftover sourdough starter. Winnie is my music partner as she sings to the last movement of Beethoven’s 6th Symphony “Pastorale” which I play a Franz Liszt arrangement of on the piano.…
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A Face Plate For Decibel Monitor
The aircraft decibel monitoring project I am building has as its central component a printed circuit board (“PCB”) made by PCB Artists called I2C Decibel Sound Level Meter Module (“Decibel Monitor”). (I2C stands for the electronic circuitry protocol Inter-Integrated Circuit (pronounced as “eye-squared-see” or “eye-two-see”).) Since the Decibel Monitor uses I2C, it’s a cinch to…
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Neat & Tidy /etc/group
Here’s a way to keep your /etc/group file “neat and tidy” (Gentoo wiki re: Complete Virtual Mail Server) and ensure that additions to /etc/group will make numerical sense. Below is from my Dokuwiki page re: sort with redactions (v. 2024/03/30 17:20) sort Table of Contents sort Parameters Cookbook Recipes /etc/group sort Parameters From man sort:…