Reading from USB COM port in go
If you want an easy copy and paste, no nonsense way to print the output of a COM PORT to the terminal in go, then have a look at the code at the bottom of this post. Firstly, the go.bug.st/serial/enumerator package provides a very nice interface for getting details of connected devices, and includes more…
Wikibase Phrase Entity, Viewing
In my previous post, we got to the point of being able to create a new Wikibase Entity, it is stored in the MediaWiki database as a page, however we can’t actually view it via any interface currently. In this post, we will work through another set of code changes, tackling each issue as we…
Wikibase Phrase Entity, Creation
Finally, after a long lead up of discussing what an entity is, looking at some examples of entity extensions, and one extension that chose not to make use of the Wikibase Entity system & EntityDocument. What does it take to create a new type of data entity within Wikibase that implements the EntityDocument interface and…
EntitySchema, and the entity flip-flop
The EntitySchema extension, previously called WikibaseSchema, has had an interesting life since its initial creation back in early 2019. The main point this story is intended to highlight is that EntitySchema started off its planned life as an Entity within a Wikibase. As the development team started work on an initial version, it flipped away…
Wikibase Repository development environment (mwcli)
Back in 2022, while working at Wikimedia Germany, I ran two sessions with people from the Wikibase Stakeholder Group, focused on Ecosystem Enablement. These sessions were video recorded and documented in quite a lot of detail, but following through with the videos would probably lead to a bit of a drawn out experience, as they…
Lexeme and MediaInfo, implementing EntityDocument
As we continue the journey, looking at Entity and EntityDocument within Wikibase, another useful thing to look at are the third and fourth widely used (at least within the Wikimedia space) entity types for Wikibase. Both of these entity types make use of the EntityDocument, with none of the old assumptions baked into the Entity…
Wikibase, from Entity to EntityDocument
The term document has already come up a few times while discussing what a Wikibase entity is, and if that should change (be that in name only, code or structures), including in my first post of this series. Looking at the very first definition of entity in the duck duck go search that I performed…
Wikibase: What is an entity?
I left the Wikidata and Wikibase teams roughly a year ago, and at the time there were some long and deep discussions going on inside the team trying to define what an entity was, and what should and should not be an entity. At the recent Hackathon in Tallinn, this topic resurfaced to me, as…
2023 Year Review
What a year, I spent most of my time on a sail boat, cruising around the Caribbean etc, and working part-time for Wikimedia on Wikibase. WBStack became Wikibase.Cloud and the team now working behind it has continued to iterate on the platform, which finally made its way out of its early alpha state. That also…
Smart Home: A fleet of Temperature and Humidity Sensors
One of the easiest ways to get myself into the Zigbee life without needing to worry too much about exactly what I was doing, buying or what my goals were was to buy a set of Temperature and Humidity Sensors for every room of the house. After a tiny amount of research and some discussion…