Matthew Helmke

160 points

Iowa, USA

Matthew Helmke is a senior technical content developer at Grafana. He has written multiple books about technology as well as two self-published Creative Commons-licensed books about Morocco, where he once lived.

Open Minded Author

Authored Content

What's new in OpenStack in 2016: A look at the Newton release

Monitor your Raspberry Pi with Grafana Cloud

Find out what's going on in your Internet of Things environment without having to host Grafana yourself.

How the Grateful Dead were a precursor to Creative Commons licensing

The Grateful Dead shared the open source view that creative content should be set free, with protections.

Authored Comments

Tie dye wearing hippie Matthew with a long beard hiking in the woods.

Matthew Helmke

12 Jul 2021

Set up temperature sensors in your home with a Raspberry Pi

This is sweet!
Since you are using Prometheus, Grafana seems an obvious choice for visualization. For people who don't want to host, they offer a free hosted version (limited, but more than adequate for this).

Matthew Helmke

3 Apr 2019

Use Git as the backend for chat

There is a typo in one of the commands. "git cone" should be "git clone".