Michael Traver
Hello! I'm Michael. I ride bikes and climb mountains. I also program computers, often using Go.
Projects
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github.com/mtraver/environmental-sensor
It's 22.88°C with AQI 2 (Good) in my apartment (as of 2m1s ago). Click here for more data!
This uses Raspberry Pis, temperature sensors, and particulate matter sensors to log the temperature and air quality in various rooms of my house at regular intervals. It employs AWS IoT Core (alas Google Cloud IoT Core is not more) for device management and communication and Google Cloud Run for data ingestion and display.
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github.com/mtraver/rpi-ir-remote
This uses a Raspberry Pi, an LED driver circuit, the Linux IR Remote Control library, Google Home, and IFTTT to control an audio amplifier by voice. Its documentation has proven useful to others trying to configure LIRC > 0.9.0 on a Raspberry Pi.
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github.com/mtraver/gaelog
Easy Stackdriver Logging in Go on Google App Engine Standard second generation runtimes, as well as Cloud Run.
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github.com/mtraver/qrbak
Securely and durably back up your private key using QR codes printed on paper.
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guinanhats.com
Guinan wears fabulous hats. What more is there to say?
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tmglyrics.appspot.com
My favorite band is The Mountain Goats. Each refresh of the page displays a lyric randomly selected from their music.
Florilegium (flori what?)
Below are two randomly chosen items from my personal florilegium, placed together.
Your task: Read these excerpts individually, together, and in different orders, keeping your mind open to new meaning that emerges as you do so. Refresh the page for a new selection.
- I don't talk about the stuff I'm writing when I'm writing it because obviously if you know anything about science that's a jinx. In the age of social media, as everybody's live blogging their books on Twitter as they write them and I think, did your chemistry professor not tell you about the jinx?
- when we're ungrateful it's because our scope of our awareness is really small
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