It was a chilly Monday morning. School was cancelled due to the ice on the roads. I thought it would be a perfect day to get some stuff done in my homelab. But as they say, anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
In the morning I …
For almost a year I have been using Pi-hole as the only DNS server in my network. For those of you who don’t know, Pi-hole is an open-source solution for custom DNS records and ad-blocking in your home network. My Pi-hole instance has worked …
This all started a couple weeks ago. Things started to slow down on my homelab server. My Minecraft server kept crashing. I thought that the Minecraft server was the cause of this because it has a lot of memory allocated to it and every time this …
New year (almost), new me blog! It feels like this is the millionth time I made a new blog. My previous blog was really bad. I had to write blog posts inside a JSON file. Nothing at all was automated.
Recently I started using Obsidian to take notes. …
I have just made yet another website! This one is inspired by codenoid/github-roast. Basically you just input a link to your portfolio site and it roasts it. Once you roast it, make sure to post it to Mastodon and Twitter with the #devportfolioroast …
This morning I woke up to my phone using mobile data and my home assistant automations not working. Initially I thought it the power was out, but I could turn on the lights just fine. I checked my UniFi app and saw that the server was not connected …
So I recently added RSS feeds to my blog and that means I would have to edit 3 files to create a blog post. That’s ridiculous! So I made a new blog site in PHP. All of the data comes in from the RSS feed, meaning I only have to edit 1 file. In …
I have created an RSS feed for my blog! This means you can now view my posts in your preferred RSS reader.
As of right now, I am still manually creating articles with HTML and manually adding them to the RSS feed. I am looking into solutions for this …
I have just released the first version of my voice assistant Excalibur! It is an alternative to voice assistants like Google and Alexa but privacy focused. You can download it on github.
The voice assistant is written completely in python. It uses …
A few months ago I purchased a UniFi Dream Router after experiencing problems with my ISP-provided router. And now I can’t go back. I have tried 2 different ISP routers as well as a couple “gaming” routers. The difference between …