In the past month, we’ve progressed to essentially 100% complete. A few minor things and some touch-up work remain but, for the most part, the house is now complete. Progress has been quick with much of the past month spent with interior and exterior work happening in parallel: As of today, landscaping/exterior work is […]
After the siding was finished, the gutters and gas meter were installed before painting. At this point, all exterior painting is complete pending some touch-up work. On the interior, all drywall work is complete with texture and first coat of paint on. After next steps (cabinets and flooring), we’ll have another coat of paint […]
Over the past month, we’ve had the roof, windows/doors, garage floor, wiring/electrical, plumbing, and most of the siding added. Our outdoor room is starting to shape up with the fireplace being installed. I was hesitant about the loss of interior square footage due to the outdoor room but I have to say that as […]
After permits were received, we’ve had great, fast progress with the house. We’ve gone from an empty lot to both levels almost entirely framed in less than a month. Foundation work started April 24th and we expect to have a roof on by June 2nd with electrical and plumbing completed by mid-June. Foundation progress over […]
It’s been a slow couple months between the holidays, travelling, and work. I did manage to accomplish a few things with the Home Dashboard project, though. I redesigned the UI to move away from an exclusively mobile interface as the amount of data and type of data I’m including in the project now simply don’t all […]
Seattle has a pretty awesome approach to data availability and transparency through data.Seattle.gov. The city has thousands of data sets available (from in-car police video records to land zoning to real-time emergency feeds) and Socrata, a Seattle-based company, has worked with the city (and many other cities) to allow developers to engage this data however […]
I wanted to capture my phone’s location information and store it remotely (on my server) so I could do with it as I please. Most of the apps I found were severely limited in that they only mapped within the app, were riddled with ads, crashed frequently, or were untrustworthy (they’re storing my location, after […]
While visiting my family recently, I saw my dad entering numbers from each of the 5-8 ticket receipts he receives daily to keep track of the work he’s done, report for payroll, etc. I knew there had to be an easier way to collect this information without having to key each ticket manually or without […]
As mentioned previously, my goal wasn’t to just create a home controller/dashboard but to also collect as much data as possible while doing so. So tonight, I started playing around with a few different visualizations of the data I’ve collected thus far. It took a few hours but I’m satisfied with the current state. I’m […]
NFC has proven to be a pretty useless technology for cell phones (unless you’re one of the people who use you Google Wallet/Apple Pay). Nevertheless, I decided to buy some tags and play with them because they’re so damn cheap (just over a dollar each, depending on the type). One useful application of NFC tags is […]