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2025 Portable Christmas Light Show

electronics

Posted 2025-12-13

Problem In 2024, my NSBE chapter participated in the Montgomery Christmas Parade. This was the first year of doing it and we were not properly prepared. I saw other organizations that participated had all kinds of lights on their floats and...

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Light String Identifier Labels

electronics

Posted 2025-11-28

I decided to track the Christmas lights to see how long they would last, and to know which lights belonged to where. This is the numbering scheme that I came up with. IT3.A.100.15 The identifier, while being in the IP address format, indicates...

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Black In Tech 2024

tech library

Posted 2024-05-25

Tech and non-tech resources that can provide additional information or support

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Lessons from Live Stream on Tech Thursdays

tech library

Posted 2024-02-25

I completed another live stream this past week where I talked about tech. One thing that I have noticed is that there are some questions that get regularly asked. One thing that I am thinking of doing is to create separate long form videos of...

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thealmostengineer.com Update to Bootstrap 5

web development

Posted 2026-01-02

Problem My website had not been updated from a graphical or visual perspective for some time. It was still running Bootstrap 4, which was no longer supported. In addition, I wanted to rebrand the website an in effort to grow my online presence,...

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Created RSS Feed for My Static Website

web development

Posted 2025-09-21

One of the issues that I do not like about how social media has evolved, is that the social media platforms do not show you the content that you really want to see. They show you want you what they think you want to see based on your likes, your...

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