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This is a quick post to document my personal workflow of producing nice PDF documents from scanned images.

Several months ago, I heard that my local police department was proposing the purchase of a number of Flock license plate reader surveillance cameras.

I’ve been on another home automation kick recently.

Due to recent life events, I’ve been engaging with realtors, banks, and lenders.

Pointless Exposition I’m not in the Apple ecosystem, but I was quite enthused about the announcement of the airtag and the FindMy network back in 2019.

I hope you’re ready for more smart home content.

Using a Fire Stick I bought a TV a few months ago.

I’m not a huge fan of facebook.

I’m not going to go in depth regarding my Home Assistant setup at this time, but I’m generally a fan of home automation (when said automation actually makes sense and adds value).

I recently bought a new car - a 2022 Kia Niro Hybrid.

As a resident of the state of New York who likes to use the I-90 interstate on occasion, I was practically required to get an E-ZPass tag in 2021, when the I-90 switched exclusively to cash-less tolling.

tl;dr - Download this app and configure a webhook for ntfy to publish as JSON.

A friend of mine is in the process of building their first NAS.

2022-09-15 Update This is a copy of my article from Datto’s engineering blog, originally published on 2021-09-13.

Over the course of the last six months or so, I’ve had the distinct pleasure of working with Securonix Snypr, an on-prem or cloud-hosted SIEM solution.

I’ve recently re-discovered the sheer amount of great stuff that can be found both in physical thrift stores and on ShopGoodwill.

Although the Sony NW-A45 is a relatively new device (released in 2016), at its release, Sony still had yet to figure out that USB-C was the way of the future.

I’ve been an avid user of Signal for almost five years now.