openHAB scripts with Rhasspy MQTT
I’m in the process of replacing my voice assistants with a more private, home-based solution that keeps everything inside the local network. I had originally decided on using Rhasspy in a server/satellite configuration to collect voice commands, and Home Assistant to manage turning things on and off. I changed to openHAB after trying and failing […]
CommonJS Modules in YUIDoc
I love using YUIDoc for my JavaScript projects because the setup is dead simple and the default theme has everything I need, including search and good markup for SEO. It’s no secret it’s a little outdated, though (does Yahoo! even still exist?). If you’re using more modern JavaScript practices like CommonJS modules, you’ll probably run […]
Detecting Clicks on Rotated Rectangles
Normally in web application development, clicks are a matter of listeners. Either a click hit a thing or it didn’t. When using the HTML5 canvas, this isn’t the case. Images and features are rendered onto it, but you can’t attach a listener to them. Instead, you monitor where these elements visually reside versus where clicks land. If […]
Stickerbomb JS Image Editor
My team does a holiday card promotion each year, which gives us a chance to create something unusual. This year we decided on a “create your own holiday card” image editor idea. We’d specify a couple of backgrounds and design a bunch of “sticker” graphics, then users could arrange these how they liked and print off a foldable […]