Fix It ’til It’s Broke

Latest posts:

New House:

  • New House 3: Modeling and Ideas

    Modeling the new house in Sweet Home 3D to understand the layout, then spitballing ideas for renovations, testing out colors and textures, etc.

  • New House #2: Window Film

    Remediating an annoying neighbor light pollution situation on the cheap, at least until the permanent fix is feasible.

  • New House #1: The Dryer Deflagration

    The dryer receptacle in the new house tried to kill us, so it got replaced with the new hotness.

Home Lab:

  • Hello, interwebs!

    I’m back after a hiatus. We moved into a temporary apartment, bought a house, and sold a house. But we’re finally sessile again.

  • Getting Joplin Server to work behind NGINX

    Getting Joplin-Server to sync. Behind NGINX, with SSL certificates, and inside a docker container.

  • HDD Passthrough in Proxmox

    Pass through a raw disk into a Proxmox virtual machine using qm command.

Pottery:

  • Modifying a 3-phase kiln for single phase power, part 1

    Convert a Skutt KM1027-3 kiln from 3-phase power, to more common single phase 240V power with surprisingly few tools and parts.

  • Kilnmaster Controller Repair on Skutt 1027

    Fixing a slightly broken Skutt-1027 kiln, and saving myself ~$400 in parts in the process.