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Flashing custom Firmware to a Sonoff TH10/16

Oct 30, 2016 esp8266 sonoff th10 espeasy

This is a tutorial about how to flash custom firmware onto the ESP8266 in the Sonoff Wireless Smart Switch. The Sonoff is a low cost mains relay with a fully customisable ESP8266 inside. Great for home automation hacking! Parts list Sonoff TH10 or TH16 A USB to TTL dongle CH340G (FT232RL or PL2303 based will also …

Deploying a scikit-learn classifier to production

Apr 4, 2016 sklearn scikit-learn ml machine learning python

Scikit-learn is a great python library for all sorts of machine learning algorithms, and really well documented for the model development side of things. But once you have a trained classifier and are ready to run it in production, how do you go about doing this? There’s a few managed services that will do it for …

Easy-peasy github releases for go projects using travis

Aug 22, 2015 go golang github travis travis-ci release

A general theme of this blog is making life easier (or programmer laziness), so continuing in this vane this is a quick post on automated releases of go executables onto your github releases page. One of the strengths of go (which just got even easier with 1.5) is the ability to cross-compile self-contained executables …

Automatically publishing Hugo blogs to S3

Jul 25, 2015 hugo blog s3 aws codeship

The process traditionally is: create a new blog article, edit it some, save. run hugo on the command line to generate the static site. copy/sync the public directory onto your webserver. Needing a webserver, build environment and text editor is a bit of hassle. It’s all a bit manual too. I’ve previously …

Gohome

Jul 25, 2015

Home automation for the geek home. Built in Go. This is my home automation project. Find it on github or godoc.

Hello, Hugo!

Jul 25, 2015 blog hugo

Been neglecting this blog for a while (check: blog cliché), but just migrated across from Pelican to Hugo, so thought this warrants a quick “check this out” post… Hugo? There’s a bit of a buzz around Hugo in the (albeit niche) world of static-blog-generation-tools. Though Pelican has been …

Kilkee at Sunset

Jul 14, 2015 kilkee panorama sunset

Open sourcing my home automation

Feb 18, 2015 homeautomation home golang

I have been meaning to open source my home automation system for a while now, and finally got around to cleaning it up a bit, documenting and removing the parts specific to my house (actually very little surprisingly). It’s the most Go code I’ve written, and I’m pretty happy with how it looks …

Elasticsearch as a smart cache

Feb 18, 2014 elasticsearch caching

A novel use of Elasticsearch in the context of holiday search, not as a traditional store of persistent documents, but as a rolling cache of transient holiday packages. This puts unique demands on Elasticsearch in terms of index and deletion rate, concurrent to a high query rate. Figures below are from February 2014, …

docker fish completion

Feb 8, 2014 docker fish shell completion

Command completion for docker in the fish shell I’ve just released a handy completion definition for the fish shell. fish? Fish whilst not as popular as zsh/bash is a far better shell. Make the switch ;-) install docker completion $ mkdir ~/.config/fish/completions $ wget …