As you just read (assuming you read the Announcement post first), I finally have my new WordPress based blog working well enough to accept visitors, so as of this writing, I’m about to send out emails (and maybe a Facebook post) to tell my family and friends about it.
I’ve been “almost ready” for that for most of a week, but I spent some time learning about “responsive design” (how to make the web site work on different sized screens) hoping to make it work on phones first. In the process I came up with a new design that will work better for both, but got sidetracked with other things over the weekend, and haven’t gotten that done yet. But it works fine on a desktop browser, so I’m announcing it anyway.
I also thought I should add a “Welcome” message, and give you a quick overview of what’s in here.
Most of you know I’m a geek (or strongly suspect based on the fact that I’ve learned WordPress to start a blog site), but if you’re interested in knowing more than that, visit the “About Me” page. If you’re signed in, you’ll see links at the bottom to a list of my Hobbies and Interests, pics of my office and workshop, and (if I know you and have promoted you to the “Friend” role), some of my life history.
Even though I haven’t actually published the blog until now, I’ve written quite a few posts over the last year, and added a few more recently, so there’s already some content. Besides learning WordPress and doing this blog, the projects I’ve worked on most over the year include building some PCs, a programming project, learning 3D printing, and building a flight simulator cockpit that is growing into a 14 foot long “toy” spaceplane for my grand-kids.
If any of that stuff sounds interesting to you, read the posts and let me know what you think in the comments. If I get at least a few regular readers leaving feedback, I’ll keep this going.
Either way, thanks for visiting!
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I think your blog is great. I like you’ve including pictures. When do I get to buy a ticket on on the space sumulator? Keep up the good work.
It appears to me that the world of Covid19 hasn’t slowed you down at all. Well done. I love all the projects. At one time, you were working on a new keyboard layout app?
I still am, but I was pushing myself too hard and getting burned out. To build a keyboard simulator I needed multi-touch, and for that I couldn’t use wx, the GUI library I’d used to build the editor. So I learned Kivy, a library that can make Python apps that run on Android devices with multi-touch GUI’s. It sort-of works, but Kivy was a PITA, and in the process of learning it, I came up with some ideas that turned into PyDUIT, a “Declarative UI Tool for Python”, that would make python as easy to use as Delphi but cross-platform and easily approached by non-programmers. (See https://sesummers.net/2020/what_ive_been_working_on/).
But then the holidays rolled around and I decided to take a few months off to build the flight simulator cockpit I’ve always wanted, and that turned into the SpacePlane, and now it’s May and I have two more motors and bikes to convert. 🙂 So I’ll get to it, but I’m not letting it “suck me in”.