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Paper Mario Party - Build Your Own Mario Party Style Board Game

Games Nintendo DIY

I bought Super Mario Party for the Nintendo Switch for my kids as an Easter present (although, honestly, it was more of a “something to do during the Covid-19 safer-at-home order” present), and it’s been a big hit.

A hand-drawn board game on butcher paper titled 'Paper Mario Party', with a grid of Item and Chance spaces, hand-cut decks of cards, paper coins and stars, and cutout Mario and Luigi heads as player tokens.
  • 26 May 2020

Running Entity Framework Queries from Embedded Resource SQL Files with EFQueryScript

Software .NET Libraries Data

Persistence, Neglected

A .sql file named GetTop10ArtistsByPlaylistCount.sql open in Visual Studio, containing a T-SQL query that joins the Artists, Albums, Tracks and Playlist_Track tables to count playlist appearances.
  • 04 May 2020

Better Home/Away Smart Thermostat Detection via Wifi and IFTTT

Software Home Lab DIY

In 2018 I put in a smart thermostat, a Honeywell T5+, specifically. The thermostat works with an app called Honeywell Home that supports geofencing to detect when one or more users are home or away based on their device’s location services data.

A hallway wall with a UniFi wireless access point, its status ring lit blue, mounted above a Honeywell smart thermostat displaying 66 degrees.
  • 24 Feb 2020
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