{"id":178,"date":"2017-07-08T17:29:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T21:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/?p=178"},"modified":"2017-07-08T17:29:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T21:29:23","slug":"making-things-and-tracking-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/2017\/07\/08\/making-things-and-tracking-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"Making things and tracking parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while, I get the urge to use some sort of app to manage my parts: something open source and linux friendly. However, all I seem to find are projects that require you to set up a database and a web based app engine. Wonderful! Fantastic! Complicated. Seriously. Parts management web applications are sufficiently complicated that you might as well pay for someone else to manage it.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m building a desktop application that I can run in linux.<\/p>\n<p>These design goals are meant to keep me on track. I don&#8217;t want to build the perfect app. Just something that I can use.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make it a tool for a single person.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t speculate. Design for immediate needs.<\/li>\n<li>Aim for simple, useable, and good enough.<\/li>\n<li>Use a well defined format for data storage. That&#8217;s the part that needs to last.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whatever I build is going to look rather underpowered compared to the average ERP\/MRP (Enterprise Resource Planning\/Materials Requirements Planning) style application. It should. A tool meant to be used by a single person shouldn&#8217;t be too complicated. Besides. Sophistication takes time.<\/p>\n<p>Time to scratch that itch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while, I get the urge to use some sort of app to manage my parts: something open source and linux friendly. However, all I seem to find are projects that require you to set up a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/2017\/07\/08\/making-things-and-tracking-parts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}