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The following was originally written in my notes app at 2:00 AM on a sleepless night about a year ago.

I recently made a post in which I complained about AI and said I wouldn’t be posting about it again.

A madman embarks on a quest The first line of this post was originally going to be “Last week I posted about getting my wacky new server working.”

This is another post that I began a long time ago and never finished: it was originally dated 2024-05-05 but I think I started working on it even earlier.

It’s been a couple years since my last homelab post and many things have changed.

I recently acquired some Kailh PG1425 (“X Switches”) to experiment with.

I haven’t had much time to devote to my hobbies since moving, but I’m quite proud to have finally finished a project that I’ve had in flight for the past several months.

My last post talked about speccing out a server and buying a bunch of parts.

Setting out to waste some money It’s only been about two years since I built an atrocity of a VM server in a decade-old workstation box.

A while back I posted about my 38-key layout, and mentioned that the 34-key form factor is quite a bit more common.

I’m writing this down because I keep having to expand disks in PVE, but can’t remember the commands for the guest and keep having to google it.

Despite having designed several of my own ergonomic columnar split keyboards, I have been daily driving my Corne (crkbd) for the past several months.

In a previous post, I shared some software I wrote to get my amp to listen to power and volume commands from my TV.

Over the weekend, I converted my seldom-used mountain bike to an e-bike.

It’s time for another keyboard post!

In the 3D printing community, there is endless debate about the best bed surface.

It’s been about five months since I released the tamago60.

A while back, I set up keyfob access using Home Assistant and ESPHome.

Warning: this post consists of a lot of grumbling and not much technical merit.

It’s time to write a post about Geocircles.

It’s finally time for a post about my homelab.

tl;dr: I migrated my blog from Jekyll to Hugo.

The original egg58 prototype used Choc V2 switches, which have MX-style stems and therefore support a wide selection of keycaps.

I don’t have a particular need for a wireless keyboard.

In any network, it is a given that there will be loss.

I first started fantasizing about keycard access to my home when Ubiquiti announced the G4 Doorbell Pro.

It has been just over a year since I finished assembling the first version of the egg58, my custom split keyboard.

In this article, we will instill a Raspberry Pi with some magic in order for a TV to talk to a hifi amplifier.

Any owners of Samsung laundry appliances out there will know they play a distinctive jingle when finishing a job.

New Mexico is facing a severe fire season, and I wanted to visualize the progression of the major fires that are currently ongoing.

Late last year, I was finally exposed to the comfort of the Ergodox – a staggered-column, split keyboard.

Yesterday, a thread popped up on r/Albuquerque where users attempted to identify the source of a loud explosion in the early morning.

Over the past month and a half, I’ve been battling the various ghosts and demons that have apparently taken residence in the ancient server chassis that I am now using as a backend for a Steam Link.

In a previous post, I described issues encountered when integrating the Unifi G4 Doorbell with a digital chimebox.

Pulseaudio has been the default audio engine in Ubuntu for several years now, and fortunately it has a very flexible module system that lets you route and mix audio.

Update (2021-12-11): It turns out some of the assumptions I initially made were incorrect, and the adapter circuit described within eventually stopped working.

Though I haven’t been playing with it for long, I’ve found that compiling plugins for sourcemod is a huge hassle, mostly due to how dependencies are managed – that is, they really aren’t.

It’s 2020, and by now everyone should know the basics of password hygiene: use strong passwords, don’t reuse them across sites, etc.

I recently decided that I needed to add some color to my workspace, but didn’t want to just use any off-the-shelf RGB controller.

I thought it would be cool to extend the scripts I posted about yesterday with the ability to create a timelapse.

One extension I had been planning for my previous project involving terrain meshes was the addition of satellite imagery to add color to the models.

A while back, I thought 3D printed models of the local terrain might be a cool gift idea.

In my last post, I explained how I reverse-engineered the Alesis SysEx protocol and detailed my findings.

I recently got back into music production and decided to order myself a MIDI controller.

Yesterday, I took a glance at the Wikipedia page for the circular buffer and was intrigued by an alleged optimization technique that I was not familiar with: A circular-buffer implementation may be optimized by mapping the underlying buffer to two contigu…

Today, a thread full of cool math facts appeared on Reddit.

A spectrogram is a convenient visualization of the frequencies present in an audio clip.

Zeall, like many other software startups, uses GitLab for version control and issue management.

The recommended way to build something on top of ndnSIM is to fork its scenario template repository and work inside there.

I love PostgreSQL.