A networked e-ink office status sign built on a Seeed reTerminal E1002, driven by Home Assistant over a hardened mutual-TLS MQTT pipeline, with a phone PWA remote and deep-sleep battery management.

I have a new automated blog post publishing workflow to go with my new website architecture.

My favorite new tool from 2024 is Obsidian. It helps me organize my projects, my knowledge, and my thoughts.

Just in time for the new year, my website has a new look and a new infrastructure!

To decrease my reliance on proprietary software solutions, increase data sovereignty, and reduce subscriptions, I am using Home Assistant: an open-source software package that is like a super “smart home hub.”

I had a great time at Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 2024 - retro treasures for the workbench, meeting favorite YouTubers, and the debut of the Stop Bits.

I had a problem worth solving - keeping the unbound DNS configs on my two pi-hole servers in sync - so I wrote a bash script and published my first GitHub repo.