Project Backlog
- Organize my stuff (figure out how to create a search index of my stuff)
- Get everything under version control with backup – git-annex maybe?
- Upgrade snailtrail site
- currently based on lanyon theme for jekyll, would like something that degrades better
- organize the content/sections better (this can wait until there’s actually some more content to organize)
- install the lunr.js plugin for jekyll
- setup mx records to forward emails somewhere I can use (i.e. gmail or beaker)
- the site is completely static and hosted on github pages, but it would be nice to add in some more dynamic sections like a wiki or private pages with some authentication required – figure out how to do this hosted from beaker, bunsen or an ec2 instance
- Look into js-git (or is it git.js?) – my dream would be to host a git repo as a static read only site (ideally with no preprocessing necessary) and provide a github like browsing experience – all done on the client/browser side with javascript. I don’t necessarily need
diff level capability, but basic browsing of current state and historical state along with some nice formatting of markdown readme files.
- Get into the flow of blogging everything.
- This todo list (items should link to blog categories)
- Figure out how to create a private realm too – don’t necessarily want everything to be public
- This could just be a matter of two separate blogs – and one is just hosted internally/locally on my home server and not available elsewhere
- Or it might be nice if it just required auth so I could easily invite others to it (i.e. Karen for managing me, friends for collaborating)
- Put EVERYTHING (including this list) under source control
- that doesn’t necessarily mean github – I don’t want to pay for private repos
- either just simple git repos, or maybe use gitolite or gitlab
- Get a raspberry pi
- and maybe a few other toys
- speaking of which, lets set up a formal budget for stuff like that
- wouldn’t it be nice to have a hardware development lab…
- Investigate virtualization options – not just vagrant. It would be nice to emulate something like openstack, but beaker may not have the hardware for it.
- Just got bunsen – a modern dual core desktop with 4gb of ram, so it should be able to handle a decent setup
- Look into different options for baremetal virtualization – Qemu, KVM, Xen? Openstack?
- Break out this todo list into the following (or more) categories
- not started (these would have no blog entries)
- ongoing (this would link to a category used for any blog entries, or some kind of project page)
- retired (these would still link to old work, but they would either be completed or abandoned)
- Build a prototype of my travel security gadget
- how to build a prototype – cnc lathe, mill, 3d printer?
- what CAD software to define it? FreeCAD?
- Revisit my old idea for representing visual images as logarithmic spiral coordinates
- use R to build a quick conversion from cartesian coordinates to log-spiral and back
- build a couple visualizaions of what’s lost/gained in the conversion
- build some basic classifiers for identifying shapes
- Setup a network bootloader
- look into PXE – is this what it uses?
- Cleanup and publish my matrix multiplication SVG illustrations
- could I build this into a quick visual matrix multiplication calculator? You fill in the values of the matrices and enter and then watch it do the work?
- Software Defined Radio antenna – sdr-rtl http://www.adafruit.com/products/1497
- Raspberry Pi 2 B
- More memory for dr. bunsen