Building my new home lab rack
We build a rack and I walk about what goes into the building process and showing the process. We also talk about networking like keystone jacks and cable management.
We look into how to setup webpack to package our Polymer 3 application.
We look at a regular expression to parse a URL in detail so we can reason about regex.
We talk about creating directories with the right permissions, downloading source files and verifying the validity of the downloaded files.
We solve the day 6 challenges for the Advent of Code.
I look into installing and using TopGrade to upgrade all kinds of packages from a lot of different package managers in Linux and Windows. There is support for Mac as well but I was not able to test that.
After my kid asked me to download and install an auto-clicker, I saw this as a teachable moment to build one in Java. I could talk about the different concepts Java offers and also explore a new API in the Java API. Source code: package org.ea; import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.InputEvent; import java.awt.event.KeyEvent; import…