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Project Development Quick Guide

A quick start guide designed to remind you of the steps needed to bring a project to completion. Some are optional, depending on the scope of the project.

Ideation

Come up with an idea. Write it down.

Conception

Work the idea over in your head. Think about what problem it solves and if it’s worth the time and cost to produce.

Design

Methodically write down all of the things you wish the project could do. You can ruthlessly cut this list down as the project progresses.

A brief set of instructions on installing Raspberry Pi OS (Bookworm) on my Raspberry Pi 2b. It includes setting up Samba and Docker + Portainer.

I was going to use the latest version (Trixie), but unfortunately there are no Docker sources for it right now.

A brief set of instructions on installing Armbian 26 on an ODROID-HC2 machine. It includes setting up Samba and Docker + Portainer.

After nearly a decade of faithful service I was thinking about giving my aging ODROID-HC2.

Instructions for a quick start getting all my usual software and setup on a fresh Linux install.

Moving into a fresh Windows 10 installation. A short list of useful software I usually install.

I’ve been self hosting this site on my own personal web server for quite a few years now. It’s not convenient, but it is cheap, which is always a good motivation for me. Today I’d like to talk about moving this site from self hosting to Github Pages.

The title of this post suggests that this is the first step into programming an FPGA, but that’s not quite true. We need to take a few steps back into the past to see the real truth.

Jump back 31 years and you will find a very young version of me taking his first steps into the world of computing. My options at this point are limited in ways I wouldn’t be able to see for decades.

The long and boring story of how I went from a 12 year old boy in the 80’s to a 50 year old man in the 2020’s making a joystick to play retro-arcade games from the 80’s.

“It was one time…” (Fart in a Jar Martin)

…what exactly do I have in this jar?

Quick instructions on getting Nginx up and running again for my site using Docker and Portainer.

Here’s some sobering images of the refugees from the Devastation of Smaug. See how they huddle together for protection.