Sooner or later you need production data in your development environment to test or develop a more rich UI experience based on real life data. There are a few ways of doing this, but this is the easiest especially if your on a windows machine. You probably already have a persistent data in your dev […]
Don’t get me wrong, I love my Raspberry Pi’s and I have spent a lot of time on both successful and less successful projects. A lot has happened since 2012 when they first came out, more powerful hardware and much better software support. In the later years I have done everything from home automation projects, […]
Before the Covid-19 pandemic I used to travel a lot. Using Google maps to find the local hotspots and trying to avoid the tourist traps with Google Maps Reviews. So I started writing my own reviews and adding pictures. Besides being a traveler, programmer, tech nut and many other things I’m also a hiker and […]
Finally got around to moving my Ender 5 Plus, and it’s load power supply, out of my office. So more then ever I want OctoPrint up and running for remote monitoring of my setup. I had a Raspberry Pi 4 unused and found an old Adafruit PiTFT 320×240 touch screen in the scrap bin. Getting […]
Developing serverless web applications on Firebase is great. Quick and easy for new project ideas. The most important part of a Firebase deploy is the Firetore rules since the client speaks directly with the database. Todd Kerpelman at Firebase made a couple of really great videos on unit testing the security rules which is really […]
Using Google Cloud Build to build and deploy your frontend NodeJS application is well documented in Building Node.js applications and Deploying to Firebase. How ever all these, or at least a majority of them, are based on Linux based development systems. If your on a windows machine you can run into a very specific problem […]
Hackviking aka Kristofer Källsbo 