Author Archives: Brian Lavender

About Brian Lavender

I like to program in C++, Java, and Pascal. I have an admiration for languages like Pascal, Ada, and Eiffel. I work a lot with GNU/Linux systems.

Pelican SacLUG site

Posted on August 18, 2023 by Brian Lavender

I have been working on converting the SacLUG website to using Pelican. I forked the NBLUG site and I have been working to get it going with SacLUG on Github. The NBLUG guys have done a great job!

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Stratux Build Iteration 0.1

Posted on March 27, 2023 by Brian Lavender

This is my current Stratux build. It uses the standard Raspberry Pi cases, the Raspberry Pi 3, two Nooelec NESDR SDRs, a NooElec 1090 SMA antenna, a NooElec 978 SMA antenna, and an external U-BLOX 7 GPS module. I used … Continue reading →

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Sample code test

Posted on March 19, 2023 by Brian Lavender

This is hello world code snippet in C++

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Import Module Node JS

Posted on February 23, 2023 by Brian Lavender

I just started working with Node JS and the ESM Standard with the import statement. I got the repeated error SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module. I searched the internet and this is the closest I came with … Continue reading →

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Tracking that feeds NMEA file

Posted on February 12, 2023 by Brian Lavender

The following will do real time tracking using gpsbabel and write it to a file for my Etrex 10 gpsbabel -T -i garmin,baud=38400,get_posn -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o nmea -F mylocation.nmea

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Read GPS location over serial Garmin Etrex 10

Posted on February 10, 2023 by Brian Lavender

This is the command I used I attached the Garmin Etrex 10 to Fedora using the USB cable. I put myself in the dialup group and the command executed without issue. gpsbabel -i garmin,get_posn -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o kml -F myposition.kml

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Super single

Posted on October 25, 2019 by Brian Lavender

I have been riding the following single speed bike.

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Let’s encrypt for www and non-www

Posted on September 4, 2018 by Brian Lavender

I enabled letsencrypt for brie.com today. Turns out for www and non-www, you have to give it the -d option for the www.brie.com and the -d option for the non-www domain. It works now for both. Yay for letsencrypt. As … Continue reading →

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Madbomber2 development using SDL2

Posted on June 28, 2014 by Brian Lavender

I have been working on redeveloping Bill Kendrick’s Madbomber game so that it runs on Android. Bill originally wrote Madbomber back in 1999 in SDL1. When I bought the Android Nexus 7 tablet, I thought that it would be a … Continue reading →

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Updated Raffle app so that winner can choose his prize

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Brian Lavender

I updated the Raffle application so that the winner can choose his prize. I need to get this on Git. In the meantime, check the source here. It still has it so that you can pick a prize and then … Continue reading →

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