TS100 Soldering Iron
June 19th, 2019I have a nice soldering station, but often times I'm not able to bring my work to it so for quite some time, I've been looking for a solid portable iron that I can take with me. I recently ran into a video about the TS100 soldering iron. I purchased one shortly thereafter and it has exceeded my expectations. It is portable, heats in seconds and even can run on DeWalt 20v batteries with the appropriate adapter.
Links:
How to update TS100 Firmware
TS100 Soldering Iron | Install Ralim Firmware and Custom Colored Case Shell
Chevrolet SS
June 19th, 2019After several months of searching nationwide, I located a 2017, six-speed manual transmission Chevrolet SS. This post is dedicated to various links relating to the Chevy SS.
Map of trip from Delaware to San Martin: here
Production Statistics: All Chevy SS Production, Sales, and Information Breakdown
Official master production list - all years
Miscellaneous
Rear seat dual USB charge ports
Node-RED and Amazon Echo skill
June 19th, 2019Node-RED is a flow based programming tool. I am using it to connect an amazon skill to various smart devices in the home.
How To: Node-RED + Home Assistant
Mastering Node-RED Part 2
Home Automation Tutorial - Building more Node-RED flows
Hello World with Amazon Echo, Node-RED and IBM Bluemix
Jarvis - Integration of Home Network and Amazon Echo
Amazon Echo custom skill
borg backup software
June 18th, 2019For some time, I had used attic for my linux backup software. I needed to check the contents of some backup files as well as migrate to new servers. During this, I ran into numerous issues with getting attic installed as well as restoring from the old attic backups. Consequently, I looked around and found borg backup software which is a (currently maintained) fork of attic and installed/compiled with no issues. Additionally, borg had borgmatic (automated backups) and allows mounting as a FUSE filesystem.
Additional borg links:
Fix for slow Cygwin
June 18th, 2019On my work PC, Cygwin was taking a significant time (minutes) to start programs. The fix for me was to ensure the cygserver process was running.
