web server




The value of an over-exuberant penchant for experimentation and fiddling should never be underestimated, if only because it helps measure the onset of age-associated mental debilitation. In other words, everyone needs a hobby. Or two. Or ten.

What to do in 2017



Programming the ESP8266 is rather easy.  I’m using the Arduino libraries and the makeEspArduino build system because I like to use the command line, not IDEs.  Stock libraries provide everything you’d expect: Wifi setup, web servers, DNS support, etc.  There’s even a library that allows you to boot into the […]

ESP8266: its’ all about power


I’ve been fiddling with an ESP8266 this week that is being powered by an FTDIBasic board from SparkFun.  The setup is simple enough and it’s easy enough to get a simple web server running on it but I don’t have a power switch so the whole thing is powered through […]

udev rule for FTDIBasic from SparkFun


I was trying to set up a directory index via a named vhost under Apache today.  Typically all you need to do for this scenario is something like this in an apache conf file. <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName files.gfxmuse.org DocumentRoot /home/httpd/files <directory "="" home="" <span="" class="hiddenSpellError" pre="" data-mce-bogus="1">httpd/files"> Options +Indexes </Directory> […]

apache 2.4/Fedora quirk in welcome.conf