Raspberry Pi IOT Air Conditioner

June 20, 2018

Why # The heating and cooling system in my house works well everywhere except my bedroom. In the summer the temperature can reach over 100°F and in the winter it can drop below 50°F. In an effort to make it more bearable, we picked up an LG LP1415SHR air conditioner, and man did it work. There was, of course, one major problem: I couldn’t control it from the comfort of my bed! ...

Benchmarking Popular Markdown Parsers on iOS

Reddit uses markdown for all of its posts and comments and so I needed a way to parse and render markdown not only well but fast. In the two years I’ve been working on this app of and on I’ve went through multiple differently libraries before I decided it’d be worthwhile to actually go and find the best one once and for all instead of just trying random ones, and so I decided to benchmark the top five I could find. ...