Todd McIntire

Software Engineer

WeatherCrab

WeatherCrab Check out WeatherCrab In the span of just 24 hours, I embarked on a coding adventure that led to the birth of WeatherCrab, a lightweight GUI weather app crafted entirely in Rust, leveraging the local weather data from the NOAA. Daily projects are a good way of learning for me, I tent to swap my focus around quite a bit so doing everything all in one go is best. I’ve been wanting to create a gui program that leveraged the use of some api, figuring that weather would be the simplest....

February 29, 2024 · 3 min · 529 words · Todd McIntire

Cloudflare Dynamic DNS

Automating DNS Updates with Cloudflare API: A Guide for Professionals As a website owner or IT professional, maintaining accurate DNS records is crucial for ensuring user accessibility and site functionality. Recently, the discontinuation of Google Domains required many users to migrate to alternative registrars. This presented an opportunity to explore Cloudflare’s superior DNS management features, including its robust API. This blog post details a bash script I developed to leverage Cloudflare’s API for automated DNS record updates....

January 31, 2024 · 2 min · 378 words · Todd McIntire

Rmc

After reaching a part where I personally felt like I had a grasp on CS theory I decided that it would be best to start a project in a brand new language that I’m interested in. For a long time ive know that language to be Rust. Rust fills a lot of personal issues that I have in programming and at the end of the day it actually makes me excited to work with the language rather then feeling like im working with the language....

May 3, 2023 · 7 min · 1302 words · Todd McIntire

Jsfetch

To begin my experience as a software developer I wanted to take the time to create something that was something a bit unusual from the standard norm of programming projects. Building something that could at least be used in a practical sense even after the project was finished. jsfetch was that idea, jsfetch is a clone of neofetch written in JavaScript with NodeJS. The idea jsfetch isn’t a brand new idea by any means, there are plenty of similar programs....

August 21, 2022 · 3 min · 515 words · Todd McIntire