Author: paulg

Building a flaglight for my recumbent bike

A few months ago I had a test drive on a recumbent bicycle and was instantly hooked. Suffice it to say that a few months later I am the proud owner of one myself. Being the cautious cyclist I am, my top priority especially on a recumbent is visibility. The bike is quite low, my […]

Running wordpress in docker

The wife now also starts a blog. Time to play: This blog here is still set up the old-fashioned way, php and mysql running on the web server. But setting up a wordpress for her gives me a welcome excuse to play with docker. So there you go: For the simplified creation of vhosts for […]

Setting up pyduofern

I found asciinema and wanted to try it. So without further ado here is an asciinematized version of the readme of pyduofern:

Using duofern roller shutters with homeassistant

Zur Deutschen Version des Textes. I use homeassistant as a front-end for home automation. It is really hackable, written in python and comes with support for a lot of devices. I chose it initially because it has mysensors support. Last year I needed a solution for controlling roller shutters. Sadly most manufacturers that market in […]

Vectorized vortex clock

The Doctor Who intro features a vortex clock. Find it on youtube here (left of the two clips). I went through some pain to vectorize it in halfway decent quality in preparation of building a Doctor Who themed wall clock. In case anyone else wants an SVG version here is my amateur attempt. I know a lot […]

Dynamic pdfs with pdflatex and ocg-p

Ever since I saw the microtype manual, I wanted to have something similar. The amazing thing about it is that you can switch on and off different microtype options and observe the resulting PDF output, I now found the package ocg-p which allows to generate pdfs with dynamically switchable layers similar to the above. I built […]