Latest posts:
- 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. - 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. - 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.
New House:
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Modifying a Harbor Freight Brad Nailer
Putting lipstick on a harbor freight pig, with questionable levels of success.
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Water Bottle Bracket Design
Design and rapid prototyping an adapter for a bike that didn’t come with threaded holes for mounting accessories.
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The Rotten Window Altercation
The problem: As I’ve already alluded to, some previous owners of our early 90’s house liked to DIY everything. But they weren’t very good at the details. So things are slowly falling apart, are drafty, etc. Here’s the floor plan that I haven’t ever posted yet. The garage was built and attached to the existing…
Home Lab:
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Certificate Consolidation
Consolidate multiple certificates for subdomains into a single wildcard certificate for decreased complexity and increased security. Navigate through NameCheap’s GUI to play nicely with CertBot.
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Optimizing Jellyfin
Configuring a Nvidia Quadro P620 GPU for hardware transcoding after passing through hardware in Proxmox
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Installing Home Assistant OS In Proxmox 8
I had trouble running Home Assistant Operating System (HAOS) on my new-ish proxmox server, because it’s expecting to have UEFI, and secure boot turned off. This isn’t the default when you create a VM, and isn’t entirely configurable within the Proxmox GUI. You would think this would be well documented, but from what I have…