Pete Keen

In my last post I talked in general about how my homelab is set up.

A little less than a year ago I wrote: Everything is in shambles.

Everything is in shambles.

As I've mentioned before, the RF environment in my house is difficult.

And you may ask yourself, "How do I work this?"

The "blessed" flow for using ESPHome is the Home Assistant ESPHome Addon.

The Setup Fidelity Brokerage Account ("brokerage") with margin enabled Fidelity Roth IRAs Fidelity Solo 401K Fidelity Multi-Asset Index Fund (FFNOX) iShares Core Aggressive Allocation ETF How Money Flows Every investable dollar is in FFNOX across all non-…

The Setup One Fidelity Brokerage Account ("brokerage") One Fidelity Cash Management Account ("CMA") One Fidelity 2% Cash Back Credit Card One Chase Freedom Unlimited Credit Card One Amazon Prime Visa How Money Flows Payroll direct deposited into brokerage…

My friend Amy Hoy recently tweeted about financial planning and personal finance.

Last year I installed holiday lights on my house (previously).

I've never owned a sprinkler before.

Recently I found myself needing to bring some JSON from a file into a Home Assistant sensor.

For as long as I've known her, my wife has been very into decorating for the holidays.

I recently got a 3D printer, a Sovol SV06 Plus.

You ever have one of those moments where you realize that what you've actually been doing is not at all what you thought you were doing?

Today is day one of three installation days.

We moved into our current house in the middle of 2020.

Recently I decided to change how I manage my homeprod environment (home production, i.e. the things that other people in my household rely on and tell me if they're down).

I treat employer-provided hardware as hostile entities on my network.

I really enjoy working with Sorbet.

About two years ago my family and I moved into our (hopefully) forever home.

This post is mostly for me to remember what I did, but feel free to follow along.

Tiller + Ledger Thirteen years ago I started tracking my finances using a tool named Ledger.

A project I've had on the back burner for quite awhile is my own little marketing automation tool.

The Setup $1.5 million of term life insurance on me A smaller amount of term life insurance on my wife A private disability insurance policy on me that pays $5,000/mo if I can't program computers anymore, for up to 2 years Employer sponsored short and long

In my last post I talked about what a CDN is and why you might want one.

In my earlier post I talked about how I'm building my own content delivery network (CDN) but I didn't really go into what a content delivery network even is or why someone would want such a thing.

Hosting my own CDN has long been a completely irrational goal of mine.

VMSave has made over 10,000 total calls as of yesterday.

Mike Perham tweeted earlier today: Could OSS use an ASCAP royalty model for funding developers?

A little over a year ago I described how I have my businesses set up in My Miniature Corporate Empire.

Your SaaS application should support SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) if you're at all interested in big fat contracts from large enterprise customers.

About a year and a half ago I started buying shares in individual public companies rather than buying shares of index funds.

This post is mostly for posterity so I don't forget why and when I did this stuff.

Like many of you, my family relies on the health care insurance marketplace for our health insurance needs.

Let's say you want to archive a website.

Let's say you run a small photography business, taking pictures of babies for excited, proud parents.

Today in my calendar there's a little entry that just says "1000 days."

Let's say you do some consulting work once in awhile.

This is an excerpt from my upcoming book Handle Your Business - the Succinct Guide to Money and Finance for the Self-Employed.

When I started my first full time job in 2007 I started putting away a little bit of my paycheck every two weeks into savings.

"I'm in deep with the IRS."

Note: you can find much more information about ledger on ledger-cli.org, including links to official documentation and other implementations.

DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) is another type of email deliverability record that helps recipient servers be confident that you authorized any given email.

Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is a type of email deliverability record that helps servers that receive email verify that the sender is allowed to send.

Everybody knows what email is.

Note: This article references events that happened in December 2014.

Your business has to get paid, but how that happens is a complicated question, and the modern payment landscape is vast.

On November 15th Stripe deprecated SSLv3 because of the POODLE vulnerability.

Today is release day for Payola v1.2.0 and the big watch word is subscriptions.