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About Dougal Campbell
Dougal is a web developer, and a "Developer Emeritus" for the WordPress platform. When he's not coding PHP, Perl, CSS, JavaScript, or whatnot, he spends time with his wife, three children, a dog, and a cat in their Atlanta area home.
Tasks: A Time-Triggered Scheduler for Arduino | chris barlow
A library for managing scheduled execution of multiple functions for Arduino. OS-less multitasking(-ish) for microcontrollers!
Tasks: A Time-Triggered Scheduler for Arduino | chris barlow
Instagram: The bottom of my Disappearing TARDIS coffee mug: “For best results, use other side.” Cheeky bastards. ;-) #doctorwho #tardis #coffee #bbc #cheeky #moblog
Instagram: They Might Be Giants, Variety Playhouse, Atlanta. #tmbg #moblog #concert
Project time
May022016
I’ve been tinkering a little bit with my electronics stuff again. Now I’m trying to decide on a project to do, and which hardware platform to use… I have a ton of different microcontrollers — Digispark (ATtiny85), Digispark Pro (ATtiny167), Digistump Oaks (ESP8266, wifi), Adafruit Trinket Pro (ATmega328), PunchThrough Bean (BLE), Particle Core (wifi) / Photon (wifi) / Electron (3G cell), NodeUSB (ESP8266, wifi), ESP201 wifi modules, some Arduino Pro Mini clones, a Tessel2 (wifi, … Continue reading
Instagram: John Linnell of They Might Be Giants on the accordion. #tmbg #moblog /cc @particlepeople
chartd
chartd makes it easy to include charts (either png or svg) on your web site, by just passing parameters in the URL of an img tag. For simple charts, this will be easy-peasy to automate. Of course, the downside is the same as for any other time that you let a third-party service have responsibility for your content — what if they shut down the service?
chartd – responsive, retina-compatible charts with just an img tag
Visual Representation of SQL Joins - CodeProject
If you ever get confused about inner and outer joins in SQL, this is very useful.
Woods
ECMAScript 6 compatibility table
Massive ES2015 (AKA, ES6) compatibility chart, breaking down which features are implemented in which JavaScript engines. If you want to use some of the newer/more esoteric ES2015 features, you probably want to check this out.