I occasionally do art, you can find any art I post here.
Long-form programming goes here while code snippets go here.
Late 2024 I decided to start taking landscape photos. Here are some of what I thought were the better pictures. At some point it will stop being winter and I’ll get some more greenery in, until then prepare for bleak nova scotia coastline. All of these were taken by me, and are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
or “how to sysadmin for small business in 2025 using containers” if you’re not of this homelab generation. Docker is a very powerful tool, and there are a near infinite number of ways you can manage your docker configurations. There are also a lot of tools that will claim to make this easier, or provide more of an all-in-one solutions. As of my writing this in early 2025, none of those tools seem to really work well and I still find myself having to go in and do a lot of stuff manually. Maybe someday one of these projects will hit the magic formula, but for now it’s just too clunky the instant you go off the happy path. But you could try ...
A simple laser cut test tube holder. plant shelf.svg
This is a self watering “Air Pruning” planter. It goes through water fast because of the open sides. Open sides like this stimulates root branching, leading to a dense root bulb without roots doubling back on themselves. This makes plants becoming “root bound” less of a problem. This design is parametric, you can resize it for any plant pot. It was designed for 2L pop bottles. I also did a bonsai variant, but I found it dried out too frequintly. ...
A leather back for the original wooden atreus keyboard, cut on a glowforge. Keeps the screws from scraping on my desk. Atreus-back.svg
The goal of this workshop is to provide a foundation for your own research, to give you the tools you need to be able to assess different ways of building yourself an off-grid mini power grid, and to be able to make the calculations nessesary to estimate things like how much power you actually need. There are turn-key off grid solutions, and consulting companies that can help you create your ideal off-grid installation. As I’m not in the affiliate marketing business I’ll leave it up to you to find those solutions, but hopefully this can at least point you in the right direction for your own research. ...