Michael Traver

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Hello! I'm Michael. I ride bikes and climb mountains. I also program computers, often using Go.

Projects

• github.com/mtraver/environmental-sensor

  It's 24.83°C with AQI 4 (Good) in my house (as of 30s 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 no more) for device management and communication and Google Cloud Run for data ingestion and display. Frontend also built by yours truly, and look, I'm not a frontend engineer, but it does what I need it to!

• 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.

• github.com/mtraver/gaelog

  Easy Stackdriver Logging in Go on Google App Engine Standard second generation runtimes, as well as Cloud Run.

• github.com/mtraver/qrbak

  Securely and durably back up your private key using QR codes printed on paper.

• guinanhats.com

  Guinan wears fabulous hats. What more is there to say?

• 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.

1. Villier's manner was sublimely English, down to the self-deprecation. I sometimes wonder if the English elites, the upper classes, actually believe themselves when they say these things, their genteel formulations, the qualifications they make at every turn. Their kind of self-belief seems essential to survive what would otherwise assail them as wave after wave of cognitive dissonance, statements of one thing while knowing the opposite, the expression of bare competence while sitting in the leather seat of his clinic on the premier private medical street in Britain, possibly in the world. Surely the dissonance would drive them mad so that the only way through it all is for them actually to believe what they say. But I might be wrong. After all, sallying forth with empire on the brain is a sublimely confident venture.
2. See a sea anemone
   See the enemy
   See a sea anemone
   That'll be the end of me

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