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2024

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Squash It

Maybe you are tracking down a frustrating CI / CD issue, or debugging a tedious process that requires git commits... lots of commits. Your repository can get really busy for very little change, and this is where you can squash you git commits to clean stuff up.

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Hiding Private Keys

Steganography includes the concealment of information within computer files.

It comes from the Greek words steganos, which means “covered” or “hidden,” and graph, which means “to write.” Hence, “hidden writing.”

HomeAssistant Assist

I run HomeAssistant with Docker so I miss out on the niceties of the supervisor container features like one click apps. Here is how to setup HomeAssistant, Whisper voice to text, openWakeWord, Piper text to speech, and ESPHome.

Immich

Not only can it replace Google Photos like yesterday but if you were like me your backups for photos are abysmal and is just folder dumps and .zip's of every old phone, laptop, USB stick, SD card, Download folder, meme folder.

MkDocs Blog Creation

Wanting to add a blog to your already established MkDocs site? Are you using it as a blog already but haven't enabled the blog plugin? How do you format your already established posts so MkDocs will build with your new blog? All this and more...

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NixOS All The Things

One laptop at a time, an SBC running home automation tasks in the corner over there, and now a core backup server has been moved over to NixOS.

Raspberry Photo Frame

A live photo frame is just a linux system that automatically logs in and launches a full screen slide show. The goal is to make it boot quickly, maybe with a nice plymouth splash screen or no terminal output with a blank boot up.