Hi! I’m Scott O’Malley

I just upgraded my personal laptop from a 2015 Intel MacBook Pro to an M4 Pro MacBook Pro. I wanted to try keep this new laptop as clean as possible, as you can imagine using the same machine for 10 years means you accrue a lot of files, setups, half started projects and the rest. The goal of this post is to act as a sort of documentation for myself of the things I have setup on it and where possible the reasoning for it....

Hey folks! For the past number of years I’ve had a gatsby powered site sitting on omalley.dev. I bought the domain when .dev first got released and have always wished to do something more with it. I started writing over COVID but never published much outside of an article on npm-overrides. While I would take the time to start articles I would inevitably get side tracked fixing gatsby realted issues. My hope with this move to Hugo I will get to spend more time writing and less time triging....

Hey! Recently I’ve been putting together a small program to track the temperature inside of a hand-me-down fridge. I’d planned to use my Nordic Thingy52 as it has all the sensors I need plus its own power source, but unfortunately I found that its NodeJS reference implementation was built with an abandoned Bluetooth Low Energy library which has stopped working with OSX after High Sierra. Error: Cannot find module 'xpc-connection' Require stack: - /Users/scottomalley/Projects/Nordic-Thingy52-Nodejs/node_modules/noble-device/node_modules/noble/lib/mac/highsierra....

And I have a terrible time getting this onto paper and setting goals for my personal projects. I’m hoping by writing it down here I can frame what I want the app to do. What kind of app do I want to make? At a high level the app will allow a DM to prepare the inventory of the different mercantile establishments based on the published source material. Most campaigns in DnD will have the players eventually visit a market or some other type of store within their setting....

I recently ran my first Dungeons and Dragons game from behind the board. I spent the better part of a month setting up scenes in Roll20, reading the one-shot end to end and watching several people on youtube running the game to know what to expect. As far as I can tell a good time was had by all and I actually can’t wait to do it again even with the huge amount of time it required....

COVID19 has upheaved everyones day to day lives mine being no exception. I’m working from home full time, I’m social distancing and I’ve had to get creative with most of by hobbies to keep enjoying them. My D&D game has moved online with our DM opting to stream a copy of Fantasy Grounds via Discord and have each of us speak our actions though a group voice chat. This has worked pretty well for the most part, save for a few of our members only having access to phones currently which can make viewing the stream difficult....