GeneBeanAutomated Plant WateringEvery spring, my wife and I get really excited about all the pretty plants and flowers that we can decorate our yard with. We also…May 1May 1
GeneBeanCrash Boom Bang: PoE & Lightning StrikesA couple of days ago there was a severe storm that rolled through my area. Lots of thunder that literally rattled the walls of my house…Apr 9, 2022Apr 9, 2022
GeneBeanThat time I forgot to create alerts for a leak sensorI bought and setup a leak sensor… but forgot to have it alert me if it detected water 🤦♂️ Here’s what happened and my new alerting…Feb 20, 2022Feb 20, 2022
GeneBeanTemperature sensing for Jupiter GarageThe other day I was listening to Linux Unplugged 441 and heard Chris mention how he wished he had a way to track the temperature in the…Jan 31, 2022Jan 31, 2022
GeneBeanIntroducing My Home Assistant SetupA year ago today (January 9th, 2021) I deployed what I consider my first production-grade instance of Home Assistant and couldn’t be…Jan 10, 2022Jan 10, 2022
GeneBeanEpomaker GK68XS: A great keyboard, horrific order fulfillment3 months, 35 emails, and many Facebook Messenger messages later, I finally have all the things I paid for during the GK68XS Kickstarter. I…Nov 14, 2020Nov 14, 2020
GeneBeanOpenTelemetry Part 2: Redoing InstrumentationFor part two of my journey in using OpenTelemetry (Otel) with Sinatra I am replacing my Lightstep instrumentation with the OTel version…Sep 7, 2020Sep 7, 2020
GeneBeanBurnout SucksMy favorite personal project is an application called PiWeatherRock … or it was before I dove in head-first working to update it…Aug 19, 2020Aug 19, 2020
GeneBeanOpenTelemetry Part 1: SinatraOpenTelemetry (aka OTel) is becoming the standard for distributed tracing. This is the first in a multi-part series where I will document…Aug 7, 2020Aug 7, 2020
GeneBeanFixing powerline in homebrew’s vimFor the last few days I have been trying to figure out why, all of a sudden, powerline has stopped working in vim. Whenever I start vim I…May 12, 2020May 12, 2020