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A New Chapter
After 16 years, it is time to make a change. With that change, a bit of self reflection never hurts. Getting here At this point, I have spent more time in corporate full time employment than any other aspect of my life. I started my first full-time, salaried role in November of 2002, which I…
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Prototype 1 – Printed!
With a little help from the folks at Pittsburgh 3D Prints, my first 3D printed prototype is complete. I am fairly certain this will lead to a new hobby with some useful output. But first, the problem As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have started to dabble in 3D printing. This desire actually…
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A little maintenance task
As I mentioned in my previous post, I ran into what I believe are some GPU issues with my Dell 7510. So, like any self-respecting nerd (is that an oxymoron?), I ordered a replacement part from parts-people.com and got to work. Prep Work As with most things these days, you can almost always find some…
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Tech Tip – Interacting with ETCD in Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2
Since cycling my cluster nodes is a “fire script and wait” operation, I kicked one off today. I ended up running into an issue that required me to dig a bit into ETCD in RKE2, and could not find direct help, so this is as much my own reference as it is a guide for…
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Jumping in to 3D Design and Printing
As I’ve been progressing through various projects at home, I have a few 3D printing projects that I would like to tackle. With that, I needed to learn how to design models to print. This has led me down a bit of a long road, and I’m still not done…. What to use? A colleague…
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Hackintosh – Windows 11 Edition
About a year ago, I upgraded my home laptop to Windows 11. I swapped out my old system drive (which was a spinner) for a new SSD, so I had to go through the process again. I ran into a few different issues this time around that are worth putting to paper. Windows 10 Install…
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What’s in a home lab?
A colleague asked today about my home lab configuration, and I came to the realization that I have never published a good inventory of the different software and hardware that I run as part of my home lab / home automation setup. While I have documented bits and pieces, I never pushed a full update.…
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Tech Tip – Options Pattern in ASP.NET Core
I have looked this up at least twice this year. Maybe if I write about it, it will stick with me. If it doesn’t, well, at least I can look here. Options Pattern The Options pattern is a set of interfaces that allow you to read options into classes in your ASP.NET application. This allows…
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SonarCloud has become my Frank’s Red Hot…
… I put that $h!t on everything! A lot has been made in recent weeks about open source and its effects on all that we do in software. And while we all debate the ethics of Hashicorp’s decision to turn to a “more closed” licensing model and question the subsequent fork of their open source…
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Taking my MagicMirror modules to Typescript
It came as a bit of a shock that I have been running MagicMirror in my home office for almost two years now. I even wrote two modules, one to display Prometheus alerts and one to show Status Page status. In the past few years I have started to become more and more comfortable with…