The air quality along the US and Canadian east coast was pretty rough last week. It seemed like the kind of thing that would be good to monitor on a Home Assistant dashboard - turns out it’s pretty easy. Here’s how I did it.

Last year I turned my gaming rig into a hackerspace server - and gaming rig. Alongside the gaming VM and test server, I’m also running 2 Octoprint containers for my 3D printers. Since that post, I’ve had 2 issues with my printers that I believe were both caused by the same thing: USB Bus Overload.

Ebooks have never been given the same first-class treatment in my house that other media types have. It’s been a haphazard collection of loose ebook files and unmanaged Calibre libraries. Device refreshes for our e-readers got me thinking about our e-book management and how it could be improved, and I’ve come up with something that I’m quite happy with. Here’s what I did.

It all started with one computer that I played with to learn about linux and self hosting. Somewhat modest, but it was a HomeLab. It’s hard to put my finger on exactly when this happened, but we’re far from the definition of a lab at this point. This is my HomeProd.

As 2022 comes to a close, it’s a wonderful time to reflect on what a pain in the ass data loss can be. I solidified my personal backup plan this year, here’s what I did.