… has too many hobbies.

/etc

Published Elsewhere

ADS-B Aircraft Tracking

Curiosities

f*king time zones

As a professional software developer, I have … feelings … about time zones.

↗ fuckingtimezones.com

Need a zero-width space?

A surprising number of people do.

↗ zerowidthspace.me

Valuable insight about computers from a literal rocket (propellant) scientist.

↗ computers.ninja

IMDB: Chris Dzombak

Apparently I am on IMDB.

dotfiles, of course, which have evolved into a set of scripts & config files for setting up macOS and Linux machines.

↗ github.com/cdzombak

Some good Ann Arbor-area radio stations, recommended by my friends on Twitter.

↗ gist.github.com/cdzombak

singletons.info

Collected links & posts about a controversial pattern.

↗ singletons.info

The Washington Street Bridge

A website dedicated to a bridge in Ann Arbor with 10’6” of clearance.

Need a collection of GIFs?

GIFs I've accumulated over the years, mainly in the early & mid 2010s. (TODO: replace this by PiGallery)

↗ dropbox.dzombak.com/gifs

A variety of emoji for Slack et al.

↗ github.com/cdzombak

A Raspberry Pi-based garage door remote control, complete with Alexa skill.

↗ github.com/cdzombak

Datasheets and other notes for a variety of theatre lighting instruments.

↗ github.com/cdzombak

Music-Visualizing DMX Controller

A project from EECS373 at UMich in 2011.

↗ dzombak.com/373project

Here’s a quick script for watching the FCC’s licensing database for new radio licenses.

↗ gist.github.com/cdzombak

A bookmarklet that reenables pinch-to-zoom on sites that obnoxiously disable it, like The New Yorker.

↗ gist.github.com/cdzombak

More Links

(TODO: migrate these links)

⚠️

These links were simply copied from my old blogging software, and I have not finished adding them to the list above and/or the /blog section. They are provided here so no content is missing from my website while I finish this migration.

I made an Aircraft Radar Skill for Amazon Alexa, mostly so I could stop pulling out my phone every time I heard a plane fly over.
A git-open fork that works better with BitBucket.
A variety of InfluxDB data loggers for Raspberry Pi-connected sensors (which still need documentation): nut_influx_connector for power usage data from NUT, pi-am2301a-influx-logger for the AM2301A temperature/humidity sensor, pi-bme280-influx-logger for the BME280 temperature/humidity/pressure sensor.
energybridge_to_influxdb logs realtime power usage to InfluxDB from a local Energy Bridge device.
ecobee_influx_connector logs your home’s temperature/humidity readings and HVAC equipment runtime to InfluxDB.
runner is useful for cron jobs: it runs a program and logs its output, but only echoes the program’s standard output/error if it fails.
To help myself cut down on Facebook time, I wrote hosts-timer, a simple tool to block a site on your computer, but allow access for short periods of time when needed.
Feedbin Auto Archiver helps avoid stress by marking older items in your Feedbin account as read.
Instapaper Auto Archiver is the same concept, for Instapaper.
listening.py is a cross-platform (macOS/Linux) wrapper for lsof/netstat that I wrote so I only have to remember one CLI cyntax to check for listening processes.
msync is like rsync, but only for music files, and it can transcode high-bitrate files to lower bitrates while syncing.
The little-known git google subcommand.
A lightweight bash script for service health checking, complete with SMS + email alerts, rate limiting and logging
I wrote a DDNS server & client for people who host DNS at DigitalOcean.
iCal feed generator for forecasts from weather.gov.
gmail-cleaner is a small tool which cleans up old messages from certain labels in a Gmail account.
A kiosk-style network status display, written for Workantile.
Timebot automagically translates times people post in Slack into the correct timezone for everyone in the channel.
Swift’s type system distinguishes between optional and non-optional Voids. (Or at least it did in 2015.)