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A new To(y)ol
I have wanted to pick up a Bambu Labs P1S for a while now. I saved up enough to finally pull the trigger, and after a few days of use, I could not be more pleased with my decision. Why Bambu? There are literally dozens of 3D printers out there, and choosing can be difficult.…
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Foyer Upgrade
Not everything I do is “nerdy.” I enjoy making things with my hands, and my wife has an eye for design and a sadistic love of painting. Combined, we like to spend some time redesigning rooms around the house. We save a ton doing the work ourselves, and for me it is a great break…
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Cleaning out the cupboard
I have been spending a little time in my server cabinet downstairs, trying to organize some things. I took what I thought would be a quick step in consolidation. It was not as quick as I had hoped. POE Troubles When I got into the cabinet, I realized I had 3 POE injectors in there,…
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Building a new home for my proxy server
With my BananaPi up and running again, it’s time to put it back in the server cabinet. But it’s a little bit of a mess down there, and I decided my new 3D modeling skills could help me build a new home for the proxy. Find the Model When creating a case for things, having…
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Updated Site Monitoring
What seemed like forever ago, I put together a small project for simple site monitoring. My md-to-conf work enhanced my Python skills, and I thought it would be a good time to update the monitoring project. Housekeeping! First things first: I transferred the repository from my personal GitHub account to the spydersoft-consulting organization. Why? Separation…
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An epic journey…
I got all the things I needed to diagnose my BananaPi M5 issues. And I took a very long, windy road to a very simple solution. But I learned an awful lot in the process. Reconstructing the BananaPi M5 I got tired of poking around the BananaPi M5, and decided I wanted to start from…
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Terraform Azure DevOps
As a continuation of my efforts to use Terraform to manage my Azure Active Directory instance, I moved my Azure DevOps instance to a Terraform project, and cleaned a lot up in the process. New Project, same pattern As I mentioned in my last post, I setup my repository to support multiple Terraform projects. So…
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Building a Radar, Part 2 – Another Proxy?
A continuation of my series on building a non-trivial reference application, this post dives into some of the details around the backend for frontend pattern. See Part 1 for a quick recap. Extending the BFF In my first post, I outlined the basics of setting up a backend for frontend API in ASP.Net Core. The…
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Terraform Azure AD
Over the last week or so, I realized that while I bang the drum of infrastructure as code very loudly, I have not been practicing it at home. I took some steps to reconcile that over the weekend. The Goal I have a fairly meager home presence in Azure. Primarily, I use a free version…
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Automating Grafana Backups
After a few data loss events, I took the time to automate my Grafana backups. A bit of instability It has been almost a year since I moved to a MySQL backend for Grafana. In that year, I’ve gotten a corrupted MySQL database twice now, forcing me to restore from a backup. I’m not sure…