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Solving the Framework Laptop Battery Drain Issue

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The Framework Laptop with Ubuntu 21.10 is a great combination for development. However, the battery drains very quickly during sleep with the vanilla installation. A solution that works great is to enable deep sleep and hibernate. My system can now hibernate for weeks without depleting the battery. Because fine tuning a Linux system is not effortless, I hope this guide make it easier and straighforward to configure and give it a try.

Framework Laptop with Ubuntu Review

Sun, 02 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I built my own laptop over the holiday break and it’s a developer’s dream come true. I took a chance and ordered a Framework Laptop DIY Edition. I’m so glad I did. The Framework is an excellent platform to customize and build a very capable and stable Linux machine for development. Here’s what I love about it and things that could be better.

Joining Google Maps

Fri, 06 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

A delayed flight, a lost wallet, and a realization during an unexpectedly auspicious trip. A short story of why I’m so excited to join Google Maps.

Live streaming with Raspberry Pi and Google Cloud Run

Tue, 25 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

I built my own HD camera with Rasbperry Pi just for fun. And, I also wrote a simple web service to live stream a video feed directly from my Raspberry Pi to any HLS video player out there using Google Cloud Run. Let me show you how I put together a simple system to capture, encode, and stream.

Powerful remote workstations with Raspberry Pi and Google Cloud

Thu, 19 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Many people across different industries are stuck working from home with the need of having a powerful workstation to do compute-intensive interactive work. From animation, visual effects, simulations, architecture to data science and more. In this article, I will show you a quick way of turning a low-power computer into a powerful workstation with help from the cloud. I’ll be using a Raspberry Pi 4 and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to demonstrate how to do animation and rendering on a remote Windows workstation with Blender.

Easy XML in Python

Sat, 18 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

I’m often asked what’s the easiest and/or best way of handling XML files in Python. This is how I read, write and handle the contents of XML files in Python. A quick guide on how to use xml.etree.ElementTree.