For the majority of my personal computing history, I have only had one machine to work or play from. This changed a few years ago when I was able to cobble together a decent Gen 6 Intel i7 based on some used and new parts. I now had a machine …

My k3s cluster Poseidon has been up and running for a few years now. Deploying quite a few updates to the host, k3s, and all of my containers at at this point. Thinking about my Prometheus install and the custom values I needed to apply in order to allow the …

Devops can mean different things to different people. Plenty of folks think it's magic or some arcane practice where the incantations are a mixtur of scripts and kludgy UIs, and the folks who puppet it all deemed wizzards. This perception causes people to miss the mark when understanding how much …

I have been experimenting and researching how to approach my Home Assistant deployment to ensure I will have a reliable install, low maintenance and room to expand. There were a few questions I needed to answer before I could go forward with my migration. Was my hardware detection script portable …

I have been running Home Assistant for several years now. I have migrated from a lowly raspberry pi 1 B+ to a laptop with a Python virtual environment. Next I upgraded that laptop to an SSD and switched to running the docker container, before I set up my docker-compose.yaml …

I recently decided to try some new soaps on a whim and one of the ones I ordered was Catie's Bubbles Le Gardenia de L'Étalon (the gardenia of stallion). I chose this scent because when I was growing up in South Florida, there were several bushes scattered throughout my neighborhood …

For me this review was a long time in the making. Since I officially started wet shaving a little over two years ago, I have always had an eye on a stainless steel safety razor. The idea of owning a hunk of steel, that would last not only my life …