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House log - Getting a Géomètre

House log - Getting a Géomètre

We're looking for a géomètre. I conceived an universal letter to contact them, sounding like this: Dear Madam or Sir, We are now in position to start the process of building the house. Can you please let me know if your office can perform the pegging out (implantation)

House log - A Checklist for Smart House

House log - A Checklist for Smart House

With the process of building the house, I'm building the list of smart house items: Family Label Description House Communication There are many smart house systems, wired (KNX, DALI, DMX) and wireless (ZigBee, Z-Wave, WiFi). Each has advantages and disadvantages. Smarts There are many systems that add intelligence.

Filter Out Folders in Outlook 2016

Filter Out Folders in Outlook 2016

Today I finally caved: I got tired of having bug reports showing up in my searches in Outlook. I looked around and found a relatively simple way to do it. Steps 1. Open Outlook 2. Select the Inbox folder 3. Click on the View > Change View 4. Select Manage

Use Shared Variables with Cypress in Typescript

Use Shared Variables with Cypress in Typescript

This week I started adding Cypress testing to my blog (with some surprises too!). I insisted to use typescript with Cypress and my code looks now like this: describe('SEO', () => { beforeEach(() => { cy.visit('/').waitForRouteChange() }) it('Contains title tag', () => { cy.get('

Google analytics vs. Google webmaster tools

Google analytics vs. Google webmaster tools

Today I wanted to integrate some SEO in my blog and I've seen that a yandex plugin offered a number of options. I've also seen there's a difference between google analytics and their webmaster tool: Webmaster Tools reports on how search engines interact with

Gatsby - Useful Links

Gatsby - Useful Links

Image * Easy image components * Remark images plugin * ImageSharp nodes cannot be created by other plugins * gatsby-remark-images hide images * How to size a gatsby-image by height? * File system * BlurUp effect gets stuck on Theming * Material palette * Styled-components * Theme example * Multiple layouts SEO * SEO Accessibility * SEO starter TSX Tools * Draft post support

My blog is almost ready... again

My blog is almost ready... again

My blog is almost ready again. At the moment of writing this, most important missing bits are: 1. SEO 2. Ads at the bottom of the page (same as the old blog) 3. Migrated posts I will have a number of entries showing up what issues I have hit along

Gatsby and MDX

MDX is an interesting concept, in the sense that you can have access to react components from within makrdown text. I think this becomes interesting when you have thinks like polls or comments (although you'd probably use disqus) Plugins I started using gatsby-mdx first which was merged in

House Log – Preliminary Approval

House Log – Preliminary Approval

So we got the preliminary approval from the Commune. They say they're OK with us building the house, but we need to wait a cooling-off period of 30 days. They gave us a long list of 'but'-s to their agreement to build: * The 3 tall-stemmed

Finding Article-Level Metrics

Finding Article-Level Metrics

In the past days I've set to find a number of article-level metrics (ALMs) for a bunch of articles. TO make things easier, I've set out to get: * number of citations per article * number of views/downloads/reads * geographic coverage (where were the people interested in

House log - Positive reply from the Flemish Government (Forestry)

House log - Positive reply from the Flemish Government (Forestry)

We have submitted our reply for the Forestry Department's query on deforestation and we got a positive reply (partially reproduced below). The following conditions must be included literally in the permit conditions of the environmental permit: * The license is granted on the basis of Article 90bis, §5, third

House log - Public Consultation

House log - Public Consultation

Last month we got the news that we need to have a public consultation for the house. Cool! I get to have a sticker/poster thing announcing the house :) We had a term set to 32 days (default is 30). The Commune even sent us the poster we needed to

Some Metrics for Research Articles

Some Metrics for Research Articles

These days I fount that for researchers, there are more ways to measure their value than just their number of citations and correlate with the impact factors of the journals where they publish. To be more exact, I found: * h-index - The h index is a quantitative metric based on

Script White Light Temperature for an Osram SMART+ with DeCONZ and Home Assistant

Script White Light Temperature for an Osram SMART+ with DeCONZ and Home Assistant

Today I got finally the DeConz stick to control my first smart bulb, am OSRAM SMART+ RGB one. I've set up a number of simple tasks to do via the Home Assistant: 1. Toggle the light on and off 2. Set the light with a colour 3. Set

apt-key adv - Fix 'Server indicated a failure' on Raspberry Pi

apt-key adv - Fix 'Server indicated a failure' on Raspberry Pi

I've been trying to install snips.ai to play with speech recognition. Unfortunately, when executing: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D4F50CDCA10A2849 I've got the following error message: gpg: keyserver receive failed: Server indicated a failure This is quite unfortunate since adding -v doesn&

House Log - More Requests from the Commune

House Log - More Requests from the Commune

Well, this year we did manage to push the button and launch the building permit application process. We celebrated ... prematurely, as shortly after we got a nice message from the commune requesting several more documents: * A deforestation plan * A rain water management plan/form Glorious! And to have them done

Draw Graphs with JSON Data

Draw Graphs with JSON Data

Previous postdealt with sending JSON data around. Now, I need to be able to draw it. After looking for graphing libraries, I've settled on Chart.js and on CanvasJS. Common steps All graphs need a canvas element to function: <div id="chartContainer" style="height:

Send JSON Graph Data from Django

Send JSON Graph Data from Django

I'm trying to write a Django application to deal with my finances. I've got a nice page listing various transactions, but I thought it'd be nice to have a graph too, to see where I actually am on the spot. To do this, I&

Fitting-out with DaVinci

Fitting-out with DaVinci

On 10-11/01 we had the fitting-out session with DaVinci. This was thouroughly enjoyable experience, particularly after the surprise we had with the planning permission. We had 2 days of hard work with DaVinci's architect, going floor by floor in the house ands asking questions of each feature,

House Log - Finally Pushed the Button

House Log - Finally Pushed the Button

On 14/01/19 we pushed the button and submitted the file to the Commune. This happens after the file was put in via an online site on 26/09/2018, but our architect forgot to notify us that we needed to sign online. So we've both pushed

New House Activities Checklist

New House Activities Checklist

Preparation * Make a "maximum" budget. Subtract 15%. Those will be your buffer * See many house builders. We went to Germany @ FertigHausWelt for example. Quite a lot build outside their country * Get an architect in Belgium to at least submit papers * Make sure the contract is not the default

House Log - A Discovery

House Log - A Discovery

Our architect submitted the plans to the commune at the end of September. According to the Belgian law, the whole process should take +/- 3 months. So, we scheduled a fitting-out meeting with DaVinci in the second week of January. We've heard countless times that after submitting the

Fix Empty adb devices -l with Samsung S9 (and S9+)

Fix Empty adb devices -l with Samsung S9 (and S9+)

TL;DR: Clean up any mobile phone drivers you have and install Samsung's ones. I wanted to update to the beta UI package. One method is via ADB sideloading, which I prefer compared to SD Card mounting. I started with: ./adb reboot recovery on my system and everything

Jenkins Pipeline Deployment Variants

Jenkins Pipeline Deployment Variants

This post outlined a list of steps in a pipeline. When building actual pipelines, I've noticed the deployment process is more than just deployment. I've identified several variants: 1. orchestration deployment (e.g. helios deployment) 2. file copy like this 3. git update for e.g.