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Rockmite Log 12/31/22 - 1/1/23: Documenting, github, and Antenna Rain Testing

 I love documentation of projects!!! Consequently, it might not be a surprise that my favorite blog and associated YouTube video for 2022 remains Simon Willison's exposition on why it's important to document and track your own personal projects .  The key trick is to ensure that every project has comprehensive documentation and automated tests. I've had so much fun with this. It basically led to the last 20 or so blog entries. Those blog entries are simplified summaries of the issue tracking that's been underway for the ham radio: Rockmite. To see the full versions checkout the little radio's associated github repository . Yesterday's radio testing revolved around our recent heavy rains and the radio's antenna. For those who feel the rain may not have been heavy, or soaking enough, we found a tree in McLaren Park yesterday morning that begs to differ: I've worried for weeks that rain water might couple the antenna to the house and the fences below by mak...

Gorgeous morning in San Francisco

 I'm having to figure out how to re-organize my blogging activities. I'm not posting to any social sites at the moment, consequently, some of my creative output has nowhere to go. But, there's a fix for that! Here it is. We had a gorgeous morning interlude between rain storms here in San Francisco, (Excelsior district to be specific)!

Rain and Rainbows at Great Sand Dunes National Monument