E.Z.'s Blog

Project write-ups, how-tos, ideas, and opinions

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2025

Save Rural America From Facebook

A free business idea

Learning Go and Solving Star Battle Puzzles - Part 5

Solving puzzles in parallel

Learning Go and Solving Star Battle Puzzles - Part 4

Solving puzzles faster

Learning Go and Solving Star Battle Puzzles - Part 3

Solving puzzles

Learning Go and Solving Star Battle Puzzles - Part 2

Representing our puzzle in Go

Learning Go and Solving Star Battle Puzzles - Part 1

Setting up our project environment

Reverse Engineering the Visio File Format to Extract Data

The Mystery of the Songs That Would Not Play

I Gave Copilot Chat a Shot At Redemption

My First Experience with GitHub Copilot Chat

Open Graph Validators for Statiq Websites

2024

CoatCheck - Display Details

Fast dev loops and backlight control

CoatCheck - A Meadow F7 Weather Display

Tinkering with an IoT weather display.

A Custom Editor for Warm-up Data

I wrote a custom editor in WPF for my warm-up exercise data.

The App Store Developer Experience is Awful

I wrote a web app because it's too difficult to go through the app stores.

Warm-up Generator

I wrote a Blazor web app to generate warm-ups for my self-defense and fitness classes.

Keep LLM Bots Off Your Statiq Site with Dark Visitors

A Statiq module to keep robots.txt updated and LLMs off your site

Adding Custom Validation to a Statiq Website

A custom validator to catch missing properties in a blog post.

Custom Characters in Meadow Fonts

A Simple App to Solve a Simple Problem

I wrote an app to solve a very specific audio volume problem, and I'm very happy with it.