How I cross compiled Go to run on the Winkhub and installed a custom web app to control the lights locally.
TL;DR; Be sure to compile with Go 1.5 with the following settings:
GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm GOARM=5 go build .
This post picks up where part 1 left off. Here is some of the troubleshooting I had to go through since following the instructions did not go smoothly for me.
How I liberated my Winkhub from the Cloud
TL;DR; I rooted my Winkhub over the UART connection and then wrote a small Go web service to allow me to turn my lights on and off from my phone.
This post covers how to setup CoreOS with iptables on DigitalOcean. It also covers how to start a Docker container using systemd to keep the container running after crashes and reboots.
I recently connected my MacBookPro to my audio receiver over HDMI to play a movie with VLC and try out the Steam in home streaming. I noticed that the audio was not coming out of all my speakers.
This is an introduction to a series of talks about setting up Linux servers. I’m going to make the assumptions that you already have some experience at the command line whether it is Mac or Windows so I will not be explaining basic commands in order to keep these talks with in a one-hour time frame. This talk will be done with the assumption you are using a Mac, but you can also follow along using cygwin on Windows.
Programs iTerm2 - Terminal with nice split screen support and better fullscreen options SublimeText - Cross platform text editor SourceTree - Visual Git client nvAlt - Quick note taking and searching MouApp - Markdown Editor join.me - Screen sharing GrandPerspective - Not quite as nice as WindirStat but pretty close and the price is right. Charles - Proxy app much like Fiddler but for Mac OSX Plugins Spectacle - Window manager that works great and is free.
I have a few applications I have written that run on Flask. Every time I would go to deploy a new application I would always seem to forget one of the minor details and end up with the ugly An error occurred importing your passenger_wsgi.py
Here are some hot keys and preferences that make life in Xcode much better.