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Bob

Bob’s Blog

Introduction

I am a web programmer who likes to tinker with electronics, trains, computers, and whatever else I can get my hands on. Here are some of my postings.

I have recently (September 2026) redone the site using the Hugo static site generator. See About for all of the gory details.

Latest posts

  • About Bob № 29: Tony and the M&M’s

    May 21, 2024

    Why Tony could never look at M&M’s the same way again.

  • Adding a Moon Data Widget to Wview Website

    February 16, 2021

    Adding moon phase information to my weather station website — the code and the result.

  • Flashers in CircuitPython

    January 19, 2021

    Explore the stages of creating a programmable light flasher with the Trinket M0 microcontroller.

  • Pet Peeve № 40: There is no Such Character as “Forward Slash”

    January 2, 2021

    There really is no reason to call the "slash" character "forward slash."

  • Simulating a CRT Monitor in CSS

    September 6, 2020

    Recreating the look of an old-style CRT monitor using only CSS.

Other stuff

  • weather station website screen shot

    Weather station

    Davis Instruments Vantage Pro2 with Wview-based website running my custom theme
    [note: I am having hardware issues, my next big project will be fixing this site]

  • Telnet Star Wars screen shot

    Text-mode Star Wars

    I created a web to Telnet gateway for the text-mode version of Star Wars
    [note: it is not working at the moment, I will work on it when I have time]

  • Interactive fiction covers

    Interactive Fiction

    Return now to those thrilling days of yesteryear where all you needed was a terminal, a modem, and an account on a mainframe.

  • GitHub screenshot

    My GitHub profile

    See the few bits of my code that are public

  • UptimeRobot screenshot

    Server status

    UptimeRobot status page (password-protected)

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Last updated: 2026-Sep-17