In the last few days, I've needed to set up several long-running services and I just wanted to take a minute to talk about how helpful systemd's user services have been.

The things I wanted to run are:

  • A Node.js server which is started with npm run
  • A Node …

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If you want to disable Wi-Fi Direct on the Roku 2, follow these steps:

  1. Go to home
  2. Settings
  3. System
  4. Advanced system settings
  5. Device connect
  6. Disable Device connect

If you're monitoring local networks, you should see the Roku network disappear. On my network, the Roku network was hidden, but I was …

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It's that time of year again: Time to make needless improvements to my website. This time, I was annoyed about how my pages were showing up in Google, so I added Microdata to my articles. One thing lead to another, and I ended up with Microdata, Open Graph, a better sitemap, fewer useless pages, and much improved reading mode support.

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I've been using Alljoyn recently, but only the sources are distributed, and it's fairly difficult to compile programs against it. The recommended way to handle this seems to be to manually copy various files into your root filesystem, but I prefer not to do that for obvious reasons. Instead, I'm going to build Alljoyn packages, using fpm.

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