Tag: magic mirror
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One Task App to Rule them All!
New job means new systems, which prompted me to reevaluate my task tracking. State of the Union For the last, oh, decade or more, I have been using the ClearContext Outlook plugin for task management built into Outlook. And I really like it. I have become proficient with the keyboard shortcuts that let me quickly…
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Taking my MagicMirror modules to Typescript
It came as a bit of a shock that I have been running MagicMirror in my home office for almost two years now. I even wrote two modules, one to display Prometheus alerts and one to show Status Page status. In the past few years I have started to become more and more comfortable with…
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MMM-PrometheusAlerts: Display Alerts in Magic Mirror
I have had MagicMirror running for about a year now, and I love having it in my office. A quick glance gives my family and I a look at information that is relevant for the days ahead. As I continue my dive into Prometheus for monitoring, it occurred to me that I might be able…
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A little open source contribution
The last month has been chock full of things I cannot really post about publicly, namely, performance reviews and security remediations. And while the work front has not been kind to public posts, I have taken some time to contribute back a bit more to the Magic Mirror project. Making ToDo Better Thomas Bachmann created…
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Making use of my office television with Magic Mirror
I have a wall-mounted television in my office that, 99% of the time, sits idle. Sadly, the fully loaded RetroPie attached to it doesn’t get much Super Mario Bros action during the workday. But that idle Raspberry Pi had me thinking of ways to utilize that extra screen in my office. Since, well, 4 monitors…