Tinkering with microcontrollers has been on my “to try” list for quite some time. I recently stumbled upon Creation Crate. Creation Crate is a monthly tech education subscription box. Each month you receive a Arduino UNO R3 and parts to complete a project. The instruction book includes the source ...
Creation Crate Month 3: An Arduino Powered Distance Detector
Tinkering with microcontrollers has been on my “to try” list for quite some time. I recently stumbled upon Creation Crate. Creation Crate is a monthly tech education subscription box. Each month you receive a Arduino UNO R3 and parts to complete a project. The instruction book includes the source ...
How to watermark images with Python and Pillow (PIL)
I am a DIY blogger, and the most tedious part of the job is editing the images. I am constantly repeating the following steps: Resize the imageAdd a text watermarkCompress the image I wanted to automate the process. There are good solutions out there for automating image manipulation, but it ...
Creation Crate Month 2: An Arduino Powered Memory Game
Tinkering with microcontrollers has been on my “to try” list for quite some time. I recently stumbled upon Creation Crate. Creation Crate is a monthly tech education subscription box. Each month you receive a Arduino UNO R3 and parts to complete a project. The instruction book includes ...
Creation Crate Month 1: An Arduino powered Mood Lamp
Tinkering with microcontrollers has been on my "to try" list for quite some time. I recently stumbled upon Creation Crate. Creation Crate is a monthly tech education subscription box. Each month you receive a Arduino UNO R3 and parts to complete a project. The instruction book includes ...
Surviving the Hackathon: Angular Attack 2016
Last weekend, Michael and I participated in Angular Attack. Angular Attack is a 48-hour online hackathon featuring Angular. Participants were allowed to design their web app in the weeks leading up to the competition with the one restriction: no digital assets could be created ahead of time. A ...
Surviving the Hackathon: Ludum Dare 35
Last weekend, Michael and I participated in Ludum Dare 35! Ludum Dare is a themed game jam that occurs 3 times a year. We had 72 hours to create a game with the theme of "shapeshift." The theme for Ludum Dare 35 is Shapeshift. #LDJAMpic.twitter.com/R6uT8yKxTP — Ludum Dare (@ludumdare) April ...
Southeastern Technical Conferences & Events (2016 Edition)
Michael and I love attending technical conferences. Technical conferences are a wonderful opportunity for getting exposed to new technologies, meeting new people, and learning from their experiences. The Coding Couple's base of operations is located in North Alabama. I am always on the lookout ...
There’s a name for that: the Kebab Case
You know that feeling where you want to describe something, but you don't know the correct or accurate term to label it as? That was me whenever I encountered code or filenames where the letters were all lowercased and the words were separated with a dash. While I was reading through the ...
3 JavaScript Gotchas for the C# Developer
Most of my development experience has been with C#. When I started learning JavaScript, I made a few poor assumptions about the language. My incorrect assumptions about JavaScript inspired this list of three JavaScript gotchas for the C# developer: Brackets do not define scope. this does ...