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Another great VCF Midwest — a Macintosh SE/30 find, a VT100 deep dive, and a free-pile score of vintage networking books.

A local garage entry system with individual access codes, scheduled permissions, and an audit log—all without a cloud subscription.

An e-ink office status sign controlled by Home Assistant and a phone app, with no cloud dependency and battery-saving sleep.

VCF Midwest 2025 was a great time. I met Lee Felsenstein, saw the Stop Bits perform again, and scored an Odyssey² console.

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

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

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.