Overview: This post is a summary of the information I found to develop a simple Garmin Connect IQ watch face that displays content in a JSON format. Watch face content formatted as a JSON document. Source Code Developer Setup: You need these installed before installing the Garmin Connect IQ SDK. Java SDK Visual Studio Code Follow the instructions here: https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/connect-iq-basics/getting-started/ to install the Connect IQ SDK, the Visual Studio Code Monkey C extension and generating a developer key.
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Backing up dotfiles with stow How to start using GNU Stow to make backups of your configuration files (dotfiles) and use git to version them and backup on a remote repo. Setting up stow Follow your package manager’s instructions for installing stow if you don’t have it installed already. Create a folder in your home directory. I’m naming mine .dotfiles and all examples here will use that naming. You can pick whatever you want.
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Links: Example for the link to my homepage: [the link to my homepage](https://www.jamesrdevries.com/) Captions: Include image text and a caption block beneath: ![Image alt text](example.png "Caption text beneath") Caption text beneath Tables: Formatting can even be done within tables: | Italics | Bold | Code | Links | | -------- | -------- | ------ | ------- | | *italics* | **bold** | `code` | [Link](https://www.jamesrdevries.com/) | Italics Bold Code Links italics bold code Link Code Blocks: Enclose in 3 ticks ``` and specify the language type on the first line of ticks like this:
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