It's never really finished, right? But it's close enough! Here's some glamour shots of it around Portland OR.

Here's how I took ten 4p modules of LG Chem pouch cells and turned them into a 20s2p pack for my 1967 Honda CA160 classic motorcycle that I am converting to electric. I'll need a 72v battery back that can continuously supply around 50 or 60 amps to my 4kw QS hub motor. These used li-ion cells should to the job!

Selecting the motor and battery pack, and taking care of body work while the EV parts make their way to me from China.

Here's why and how I'm converting an old, busted, non-running Honda CA160 "Baby Dream" to a battery powered EV.

It's been five years since I published my book, Functional Programming in Javascript. And since then a dramatic shift in the programming language has unfolded.

This is how I fixed and repaired a very large dent in my friend's motorcycle: a 1973 Honda CB125.

After dropping the suspension, I had a problem with the tires rubbing the inside of the rear fenders. Here's how I fixed it!

Don Henley's "Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac" lyric never made much sense to me.

This is how I repaired my old miata seats, reversed the "foamectomy" that a previous owner did, and also raised the seats over an inch to get some extra seating height in the car.

Everything you need to know to install a curved-glass windshield into an air-cooled VW! Step-by-step instructions, lots of pictures, and even a video!

It's a big job and it took me a few weeks! But it's totally a do-able job for the average car restorer like myself. Here's how I did it.

I turned two old bicycles into one. Here's how.

The Valley of the Giants is a very small area with very large trees, many over 450 years old. The hellish 30-mile drive through ravaged industrial timberlands to the giants makes one appreciate the importance of this refuge.

My wife gave me until the end of April to wrap this thing up. Did I get to drive-able in time? Click to find out!

I get the doors mounted, new wheels mounted, repair the front apron, test fit the fenders, do some rust repair, and make brackets for the front bumper. Almost done with stage 2!

It's been a few months since my last post on this project and a lot has happened since then! Including building custom rocker panels that connect the VW door sills to the Miata pinch seams.

I needed to get the size of an mp3 file in the PHP code that I wrote to make XML data for Podcasts.

Bellow is three different functions that achieve that objective, using the curl, get_headers and fopen functions. Hope this helps!

I learned a valuable lesson on the morning after submitting my latest Alexa skill for certification. I had an email from the Alexa certification team letting me know that their tests had failed. I thought that was odd because everything was working perfectly fine when I left work the previous day. I was using AWS Lambda to host the back-end code (within a Node.js environment) and hadn't set up the versioning system because I didn't know about it. [update: I'm now using the AWS CLI to locally host my code and push it to Lambda, which is what I recommend.

You can't really call yourself a Drupal developer if your site is still on Drupal 7. Right? So it was high time for me to upgrade Dannix from D7 to D8. Here's how I did it, the problems I ran into, and what I did to overcome them. 

This was a big milestone for this project.