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Automated Plant Watering

Every 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 1

Automated Plant Watering

May 1

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Crash Boom Bang: PoE & Lightning Strikes

A 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, 2022

Image of lightning striking

Apr 9, 2022

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That time I forgot to create alerts for a leak sensor

I 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, 2022

That time I forgot to create alerts for a leak sensor

Feb 20, 2022

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Temperature sensing for Jupiter Garage

The 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, 2022

Temperature sensing for Jupiter Garage

Jan 31, 2022

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Introducing My Home Assistant Setup

A 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, 2022

Introducing My Home Assistant Setup

Jan 10, 2022

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Epomaker GK68XS: A great keyboard, horrific order fulfillment

3 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, 2020

Nov 14, 2020

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OpenTelemetry Part 2: Redoing Instrumentation

For part two of my journey in using OpenTelemetry (Otel) with Sinatra I am replacing my Lightstep instrumentation with the OTel version…

Sep 7, 2020

Sep 7, 2020

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Burnout Sucks

My favorite personal project is an application called PiWeatherRock … or it was before I dove in head-first working to update it…

Aug 19, 2020

Burnout Sucks

Aug 19, 2020

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OpenTelemetry Part 1: Sinatra

OpenTelemetry (aka OTel) is becoming the standard for distributed tracing. This is the first in a multi-part series where I will document…

Aug 7, 2020

Aug 7, 2020

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Fixing powerline in homebrew’s vim

For 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, 2020

May 12, 2020

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GeneBean

I'm an all around geek & am becoming a modern beardsman. I like biking, floating down rivers, & shooting. I also enjoy yoga and World of Warcraft.

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