Smart home devices are usually sold on convenience. Control the lights from your phone. Turn down the thermostat from bed. Get a camera notification when someone walks up to the porch. Automate the boring stuff and feel like you are living slightly closer to the future. That future gets a lot less fun when the […] The post Your Smart…
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3 Jun
17 May
As a software developer, you will need to become familiar with many tools and technologies as you work and grow in the field. This is not helped by the fact that it feels like new tools are being released every day, not to mention new feature updates added to tools you already know. The easiest […] The post Your Hobbies…
11 Apr
In previous posts, I have written about my Proxmox Backup client helper scripts and an Ansible role to provision them. The main limitation of the prior version of the scripts is that they could only specify one backup target file or directory. Now they can target multiple. Backup scripts improvements The primary new feature is […] The post Check Out…
4 Apr
If you’re commute-curious but haven’t pulled the trigger yet, I’ve been there. Most of what felt like obstacles to biking to work turned out to be either mental barriers or have simple solutions. Somewhere on the other side of figuring that out, I realized I was actually looking forward to it each morning. Here’s what […] The post Most of…
9 Mar
During the COVID-19 pandemic, I like many found myself with a lot of free time. So like many others, I deciding to spend way too much time on my computer. This led to ultimately running into frustration with the lack of a unified theme system. with MacOS, which not longer ran well the ancient 2013 […] The post Unified Theming…