Networked Ultimaker with Raspberry Pi (on linux)

I got my Raspberry Pi yesterday! Installation of the provided Debian image is a breeze (just make sure you have an SD card and a micro-USB cable lying around). And I am happily playing with it right now. I didn’t have a real Plan to use it yet, so in the meantime I’m using it to control my Ultimaker over a network; Due to physical constraints, I have my printer in the same room as my main desktop system, but out of reach for any sane USB cable.

Ultimaker

So a while ago, I got myself an Ultimaker And while I do not want to degrade the usefullness by calling it a toy, I would like to say Best. Toy. Ever. It uses a printing technique called FFF, which I guess is just another term for FDM, which builds an object by depositing plastic one layer at a time. It is sold as a kit, and it took me two evenings (and part of a night) to build.

Small script to create Blogofile posts

I’ve written a very small Python 3 script to initialize Blogofile posts; It generates a post number, prompts for a title, automatically sets the date, and adds an empty categories field. It uses the basic simple-blog conventions, but the script should be easy enough to change to your setup. Not very useful (yet?), but it makes starting a post just that tiny bit easier. #!/usr/bin/python3 # # Simple helper tool to create blog entries.

Updated RRType List

Today, the page with DNS RR types got a little bit of attention, and made a short round on twitter. Which of course reminded me that I had not updated it for quite some time now. There were some nice ideas from @digdns and @Habbie, most importantly a way to automatically match it to the official IANA page, and a more parseable page (in, for instance, xml) for others to use (Thanks btw :)).

Moving tjeb.nl to Blogofile

clcms has served me well for the past 6 years, but it is time to move on. I wanted to do some things that it didn’t really support, to make my site more, well, ‘bloggy’, and had almost started an entire new project for it, but I figured there are just too many static site generators available. So I scoured the wastelands of the Internet, and after a long and arduous journey, found Blogofile.

mailboxalert 0.16.1

It is here! Mailbox Alert 0.16.1! 0.16 should already fix most (if not all) the ongoing problems with the cursed 0.15 release. But as my previous post already said, not all woes were over, and I made a mistake when uploading the final release file. This update should correct those. See the full changelog here: Changelog And get the addon itself if you are not using addons.mozilla.org here: Direct download

mailboxalert 0.16

Mailbox Alert update; 0.16 has been released through addons.mozilla.org. It contains fixes for a number of issues people had with 0.15 (the biggest one being that it didn’t work consistently with the internal messaging system across several thunderbird versions). However, in my enthusiasm, I uploaded a wrong file to AMO, and it did not contain a few important fixes and cleanups. Unfortunately, these weren’t considered important enough to hold off releasing it by the reviewer (since in most cases it does work).

mailboxalert 0.14.4

And more fixes for Mailbox Alert: Fixed a problem where the check if a command is executable failed on Windows, even though the command would run fine Fixed a problem where the folder was not always correctly selected with the ‘Open in current window’ option Changelog Direct download Yes I am still working on all those features you all requested. It’s a lot :p Only some of them will make it to 0.

mailboxalert 0.14.5

And yet more fixes for Mailbox Alert: Fixed an issue on Thunderbird 2 caused by a changed internal API, where alerts would not fire at all in some circumstances. Fixed another issue with Thunderbird 2 where ’execute a command' did not work for some executables. Changelog Direct download Happy mailing

mailboxalert 0.15.0

Big update to Mailbox Alert! Configuration has changed, and you can now set alerts as a Thunderbird filter action! Changelog Direct download I also added a separate Manual. It needs some work, but it’s better than nothing :) There are some open issues; I just discovered the global mute doesn’t work anymore, the reviewer had some good points, and I did not yet find a good way to pass around the full message body (a much requested feature).