Technology
The Vega Vireos
A website for neighbors to track local bird sightings.
Technology
Anything related to tech.
Technology
Escaping Jeff with Home Assistant Local Voice
Weaning myself from the Amazon voice ecosystem with Home Assistant.
Technology
Finding Live Bands with Concert-Map and Sonos to Last.fm
Stringing together technology with duct tape and bubble gum to find upcoming live music based on my listening history.
Technology
How I Deploy Free Websites with Cloudflare
I deploy free websites globally using Cloudflare Workers and git. You can too!
newsletter
Burns After Reading: Volume 8
In this eighth edition I discuss my ongoing political radicalization, the fediverse, and birds.
Blogs
Migrating from WordPress to Ghost
Documenting the process and decisions behind moving from self-hosted WordPress to cloud-hosted Ghost. Also comparing Ghost and Eleventy.
Family
2025 Summary
I'm doing this again. A year in review for 2025. If you want to catch last year's, you can find 2024 here. Pray that brevity finds me, for your sake. 2025 brought new challenges and plenty of adventure. Challenges Psychic Damage The first challenge of 2025
Technology
Debian 13 Trixie Upgrade
One Weird Trick to make Linux distro upgrades easy on your critical services. Upgrading from Debian 12 to 13 on a Docker host.
Technology
Air-Gapped Cyber Resilient Infrastructure
During Nutanix .NEXT 2025 in Washington, DC, I had the honor of presenting a main stage demo to ~4,000 attendees. I can write a bit more about what it took to get this demo ready, but for now I'm just happy to share that the presentation is
automation
Bliss Alta Motionblinds Home Assistant Integration
Do you have a Bliss Automation - Alta Window Fashions roller shade or other device that you'd like to add into Home Assistant? Then this is the place for you! Background Part of de-Amazon-ing my house, or "un-Bezo-ing?", "de-Jeff-ing?" is to control all my
Technology
Nested YAML Frontmatter for Obsidian Book Notes
The author spends 3,000 words changing 3 lines to remove nested YAML frontmatter. Along the way, he learns the value of writing down the process and fact checking AI.
Technology
Can you quit Vim?
The note taking application Obsidian makes me nearly spit my coffee out with a fun pop-up message about exiting Vim.