Author: Rich Brown

Localization help requested

I'm a collaborator on a WiFi Heatmap project (see https://github.com/hnykda/wifi-heatmapper). It lets you measure the wifi signal strength at various points around your house to see where it's weak. The problem: Windows localizes the "netsh wlan show interfaces" output that displays the wifi signal strength (and other information). wifi-heatmapper has a set of localization files

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Enable Jetpack JSON API

I solved a problem posting images using wordland.social. To do so, I used a kind of "random walk" to get there, so I didn't remember which of several things I did that made it work. I subsequently went back and found how to do it "officially". To enable the JSON API within Jetpack: Go to

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Testing Wordland.social…

I'm testing the Wordland Baseline theme created by Scott Hanson. This post has a title, and follows several no-title posts. It occurs to me that it might be nice to group consecutive no-title posts under a single heading of the form Date by Author. But I'm not certain about that….

Crusader Documentation Updated

I am pleased to note that my PR for updated documentation for the Crusader network throughput and latency tester has been merged. Crusader makes fine-grained tests of network performance, either on a local network, or the wide Internet. For more details, see the Crusader repo.

Dave Täht for Postel Service Award

I posted this nomination for the John B. Postel Service Award today… I strongly recommend Dave Täht for the Postel Service Award. Regrettably, this must be posthumous. I first learned about Dave when I stumbled on his post talking about experiments with the CeroWRT software to decrease latency in home routers. This must have been

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In addition to using ChatGPT for the Wifi-heatmapper project, I have also been having fun reading Simon Willison’s blog, especially his Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code post.