I’ve noticed that quite a few of my VM workloads and NFS workloads are rather slow on my Proxmox box, due to the facts that it’s sitting on spinning rust (also known as hard disk drives) a lo...

I’m prepping a lot of stuff with cloud-init lately, and one step I always forget when installing my base OS is keeping the vg name clear of any hostname stuff. So, as a reminder to myself, and a s...

Close to when we were moving I decided to do something about my rather huge paper archive (bills, receipts, …). I set about digitizing it all using a flatbed scanner, my cellphone and Swiftscan (fo...

About a month and a bit in me learning the piano, I’ve had to rethink my remote piano learning setup. The latency was at points really annnoying (sometimes nearly a second) - it’s confusing when yo...

I’ve always wanted to learn the piano. Finally, in 2021, I’m following up on it :) I got to loan a Roland RD-700GX Digital Piano (not a synth!) from some friends (Thank you!) to learn on. This thi...

Happy new year Y’all!

Some IRC friends of mine recently made me aware of the Advent Of Code, so I’ve decided to partake in Python ;) Let’s see how far we get! (time permitting)

As Ubiquiti seems to have abandoned any development for their UniFi Security Gateway - the last “stable” update (version 4.4.51) was more than a year ago, wasn’t all that stable and doesn’t fix man...

For reasons that will soon be documented, I needed my trusty old Targus PA-088 USB to Serial Port Adapter, in Window 10 (yeah yeah, I know…). Unfortunately, Targus seems to have stopped supplyin...

Building further on my CC Radio, I wanted to integrate this with my Logitech Harmony Elite (+hub) remote, so that no interaction is needed with Home Assistant itself to work the radio. The solutio...