Category Archives: Work

New Open-Mesh Routers

A few days ago my shipment of Open-Mesh routers arrived! They’re super small and really cool.
Here are a bunch of pictures of me opening them.
The setup was really simple, just like the Meraki routers. Basically you need to plug in on of the repeaters to an internet and power connection for 5 minutes so it [...]

PHP Gallery Directory Image Reader

I wrote a neat little script to simply read a directory, search for thumbnails, then print a list with links to the larger images. I look for the thumbnails so it doesn’t get images that don’t have small versions.
There are limitations, for example if you put a PDF with ‘.thumb’ in the directory it will [...]

How to Give Nexopia a Jump Start

Months, maybe a year ago I made the recommendation that Nexopia develop a product to “import” profiles from other websites. This was of course brushed off as “hard to do” and “illegal” because it would require the scraping of data from other social networks. There was also the issue of privacy and our lead developer [...]

Mesh Wifi Networks Are Cool

For as long as I’ve had my cafe I’ve offered free wireless access to anyone who comes in. The idea is simple, if you’re here you’re probably going to eat or drink something while using the wifi. If you aren’t, then at least you’re putting a body in my window for other people to see.
Until [...]

Cafe Re-branding

This last week I spent a good portion of my free time deliberating over new designs for my business cards and flyers.
The biggest complaint my customers have had is finding the cafe! Visibility is pretty limited so I chose to include a map on both the business cards and the flyers. I originally had a [...]