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 …

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 …

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 …

So a few weeks ago my brother lost his credit card and had it canceled. He also never updated our wireless account to auto withdraw from the new credit card. Because of this I found myself in a situation where I needed to rely only on WIFI for calling and …

I recently switched to Linode for a basic VPS (512 MB RAM, 20 GB storage). I wanted to be able to install absolutely what ever version of what ever software I wanted. Since I have become very familiar with Arch Linux (I run it on all of my home computers …