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Bread Box Assembly
A finely crafted bread box tells a tale of its own creation, and the people and places that shaped it along the way.
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Measuring AT&T Internet Bandwidth with Python, InfluxDB, and Grafana
Any technical system you build inevitably slides into decay as the ecosystem you've borrowed from upgrades slowly over time while you're off doing other things. The parts you custom tailored now no longer fit. Some of the suppliers go out of business. Some changed businesses altogether.
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Becoming Anti-social
This isn't about becoming anti-social in the traditional sense, but more anti-social media. Asocial would be a more accurate term. A few years back I made a decision to disconnect from most social media platforms. If you wanted to get in touch with me or know
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Random Playlist Selector with Sonos and Home Assistant
Here's something different for the blog. I've taken some inspiration from the HashiCorp RFC and am tracking my personal project that way. I find it useful. Problem Statement I get tired of listening to the same playlist too often. I also want to reduce the number
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Converting from Goodreads to Obsidian
Last month I got an idea that I'd like to do book reviews in my Obsidian note taking vault. This would satisfy a few problems I've had: 1. I'd like to keep all of my book reviews private. 2. I'd like to
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nftables!?
Apparently while I was busy working on some other things, the world switched to nftables and no one told me. I logged into my Linux web server the other day and realized the firewall rule set that had been hand crafted with iptables probably a decade or more ago is
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Obsidian for Tasks and Lowering Blood Pressure
I started creating tasks in Obsidian using the tasks plugin and at first it was amazing. It really helped me lower my stress levels because I knew that I could just write something down in my notes and Obsidian would remember it for me. I could quickly scan through my
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Obsidian for Notes
I've been using Obsidian to take notes and track all the action items in my life. I've really enjoyed it and even signed up for the paid sync service. I blame my sister Jen for this, because she's the one who got me started
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Home Improvement Landscaping
The previous owner of our property believed in letting nature run its course entirely without human intervention. As a result our front yard had been a long outstanding project that we'd been afraid to tackle. In addition, we had some serious drainage problems that led to standing water
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News Feed Idea
Here’s an idea I had to curate my news feed. Search all titles and lead paragraphs for the word ‘actually’ or [\d+] [things|ways] and give me a way to hide them, block the article or entire site, or compose a letter to their editor with a list of
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18 Years of Blogging
This blog has been alive in some form since 2002. As you can imagine a lot has changed in 18 years. The blog has moved physically from servers under desks, servers in closets, to finally virtual machines in the cloud. Even those VMs have changed AWS instance sizes and Ubuntu
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Home Improvement Porch Project
Kat bought our house around the same time that I bought my condo in 2014, before we even met! It's an amazing property on a large wooded lot with nice privacy and set back a bit from the street in a quiet neighborhood. The house had a great