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 …

Recently I have helped take over leadership of the Virginia Tech Web Developers Group. We are an informal bunch who come together and share knowledge about our craft and trade, in the hopes that we can all become better at web development. This will also have the benefit of promoting …

The Probak brand was entirely alien to me until a recent trip to an antique store in Salem VA. It immediately caught my eye because of its excellent condition. After picking it up I noticed that it was a brand I had not come across before yet was none the …