website updates

Photos

There are some really neat themes for Jekyll for all sorts of things. I found one for a photo gallery and set it up at colinholzman.xyz/photos. Not a lot of photos up there at the moment, but that’ll change.

The theme I used is called Lens. It works similarly to default Jekyll. Put your photos in one place, run jekyll build and you’ll have the static site ready to serve, in my case, with app.use('/photos', express.static('/home/admin/photos'));.

Resume

colinholzman.xyz/resume.pdf has a pdf of my resume. This is simply

const resume = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, 'resume.pdf'));
app.get('/resume.pdf', (req, res) => {
    res.send(resume);
});

on the server.

I should probably update my resume.

Webcam

I used an old USB webcam, a rasberry pi 3 B, and motionEyeOs to set up a stream of my backyard at colinholzman.xyz/cam. Download the latest image of motionEyeOs for your device from here. For a RPi burn the image on a sd card (I used etcher on my mac). Plug in the camera, insert the sd card, and connect the Pi to the network and power. Then go to the Pi’s address in your browser to set up all the options. There are a lot of options to configure but the camera and stream worked out of the box.

I forwarded the video streaming port through my router and that enabled me to access the stream from the internet. On the colinholzman.xyz server I added

app.get('/cam', (req, res) => {
    res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname, 'cam.html'));
});

where cam.html just has an iframe pointing to my home router on the motionEyeOs streaming port. It seems to work OK. It doesn’t work over https though. I wonder why?