Will Jessop's Writings

Sailing, Food, Programming, Technology, and other things

Do you have a Ruby on Rails application you'd like to be faster, more scalable, or just upgraded safely? I'm currently open to new contracts doing Ruby on Rails and Postgres scaling and performance work, and Rails upgrades. Contact me at will@willj.net to get started.

2022/August

Full-height Github "checks" box in Firefox
No more scolling the checks box on Github when you have plenty of screen space to display it
Effective Github Notifications
Taming the torrent of Github notification emails

2021/January

Simple Sourdough Bread
A simple, fast and reliable method for making sourdough bread
Making a Sourdough Starter
A simple method for making a sourdough starter

2020/November

Using the T67XX CO₂ Sensor Module in Go
Getting CO₂ readings and more from the T67XX CO2 Sensor Module in Go
Custom 3D printed Blue Snowball desk stand
I wasn’t happy with the original Blue Snowball microphone desk stand, so I designed and printed a new one

2020/June

Welcome to My New Blog
I used to blog on wordpress, but now I don’t
Writing to an Lcd Panel Using Go and a Raspberry Pi
Writing data to an LCM1602 based multiline LCD display connected to a Raspberry Pi using Go
Humidity, Temperature and Pressure Sensing on a Raspberry Pi With Go
I have recently started playing around with climate sensing using some relatively cheap sensors, some Raspberry Pis, and Go. In this post I will briefly touch on why I am doing this, the setup and systems I have working currently, and the improvements I plan to make.

2020/February

Error installing libv8 on Mac OS Catalina
If you are getting a “fatal error: ‘climits’ file not found” error installing libv8 on Catalina then this post is for you.