So I decided to build a bot in Mastodon that reports the damage you’re taking hourly. This was a fun exercise and mostly an excuse to play with Rust. I’ll talk about the process a bit: the core, setting up the scripts to execute it, and the…
I’ve been thinking as of late about the things that desktop computer users get that we’ve decided isn’t worth giving software engineers in their own infrastructure. I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who works at a big tech company who is h…
Related to my previous post, I needed to resolve the need to quickly take screenshots from Windows and put them in an org file in emacs. This proved a bit more difficult than I’d hoped; triggering a screenshot in Windows from emacs is non-o…
Lately, I’ve been using Etherpad on Sandstorm to track notes and clues in the game Blue Prince. While it started okay, I cannot recommend it at this time for this application. What follows is the specific issues that I’ve encountered. Note
In part 1, we discussed setting up Grafana, Loki, and Alloy. Here, we’ll dive into Prometheus setup. Prometheus differs from Loki in that Loki stores individual log entries. Prometheus is a time-series database: it stores individual events
Having gotten to three whole nodes in my home network, I’ve decided it’s about time to get some centralized monitoring going. To that end, I’ve gone with what I’m (vaguely) familiar with: the Grafana open source logs display and its accompa…
In my quest to back slowly towards the exits from total reliance on Google’s infrastructure, I’ve managed to stand up an instance of Sandstorm on a small ZimaBoard. This has been successful; one thing I was very concerned about was storage
I’ve used multi-term for years in emacs as my primary terminal interface. It works great, but occasionally while ssh’ing to another machine and using the emacsclient -t interface (my common approach), the terminal gets stuck to a too-small
After not too much work, I was able to finish up the fireplace in our front room. This was a small hack involving a Raspberry Pi. I’ll summarize what worked and then share a few thoughts on what didn’t. I can test this here and confirm it w…
This is a followup to my previous post on building a shader based on Xflame. I won’t be covering much of the details of building it since they’ll be similar. You can see the shader in action here. Feel free to pop it open and inspect the co…
Over the holiday, we had the fun idea to put a TV in front of the fireplace we never turn on so we can run fireplace images on it. It’s been a joy, but it got me thinking about what it would take to put a fire visualizer on there instead of…
It’s the New Years season again, and that means resolutions. Usually. This time around, I’m trying something a little new. Inspired by CGP Grey’s video on the topic, I’m trying “theme system journaling.” But since I’m not very good at keepi…