As I have mentioned previously I have been been gradually Home Assistant-ifying my home. Of course, part of that means having a some control panels around. I have tried an old tablet, but was not really happy with the results. At some point I leaned about the so-called “Cheap Yellow Display” (CYD). This is a small TFT display bolted directly to an ESP32 microcontroller.

There are a few things that make this interesting:

I’ve recently decided to change my bike frame as I developed a tendonitis due to my beloved Felt F95 actually being too big. As we are also looking to buy a house, my budget was quite limited. This put a nice shiney Cannondale SystemSix well out of my reach, so I decided to give a Chinese frame a try.

This is not as shocking as it sounds because of the realities of the bike market.

As I have mentioned previously I have been been gradually Home Assistant-ifying my home. Of course, part of that means having a some control panels around. I have tried an old tablet, but was not really happy with the results. At some point I leaned about the so-called “Cheap Yellow Display” (CYD). This is a small TFT display bolted directly to an ESP32 microcontroller.

There are a few things that make this interesting:

As I have mentioned previously I have been been gradually Home Assistant-ifying my home. Of course, part of that means having a some control panels around. I have tried an old tablet, but was not really happy with the results. At some point I leaned about the so-called “Cheap Yellow Display” (CYD). This is a small TFT display bolted directly to an ESP32 microcontroller.

There are a few things that make this interesting:

As I have mentioned previously I have been been gradually Home Assistant-ifying my home. Of course, part of that means having a some control panels around. I have tried an old tablet, but was not really happy with the results. At some point I leaned about the so-called “Cheap Yellow Display” (CYD). This is a small TFT display bolted directly to an ESP32 microcontroller.

There are a few things that make this interesting:

I have a few posts in my mind that will need me to include bible passages in the pages. I could just quote them, but that is no fun and I am happy make a lot of effort to be lazy.

I am using Hugo to power this site, so I decided I would add a shortcode that would allow me to do it via an API. There are a few decisions to be made first.

I have a few posts in my mind that will need me to include bible passages in the pages. I could just quote them, but that is no fun and I am happy make a lot of effort to be lazy.

I am using Hugo to power this site, so I decided I would add a shortcode that would allow me to do it via an API. There are a few decisions to be made first.

A few years ago (becoming many years ago now) I was a Linux loving sound engineer. I am also a guitar player with a family which means I have not been much of a guitar player for a while now.

Well, I recently got a new (to me) laptop to replace my Pinebook Pro and I have decided to dip my feet back into music production. With that in mind I feel I can add to the conversation by giving how things are going after a few years away.

A few years ago (becoming many years ago now) I was a Linux loving sound engineer. I am also a guitar player with a family which means I have not been much of a guitar player for a while now.

Well, I recently got a new (to me) laptop to replace my Pinebook Pro and I have decided to dip my feet back into music production. With that in mind I feel I can add to the conversation by giving how things are going after a few years away.

Umami is a self-hostable web analtics system similar to Google Analytics. From my point-of-view it has several advantages compared to Google Analytics:

• Data Ownership: it is self-hosted so the data is stored on my own server
• Privacy: Google Analytics uses cookies, so can be problematic to comply with certain privacy laws such as GDPR.
• Simplicity: I am a sysadmin, not a data scientist. Umami’s interface is very simple compared to Google Analytics. Granted, this is partly because it does less, but it is fine for me.

This site is hosted on Gitlab Pages and I run Umami on my K3s which has an ingress controller accessible from outside.

Where better to start than how my lab is working.

My home lab is not one that has really been planned, rather I acquire/buy things as the opportunity arises. It really has 2 things:

• NAS
• Kubernetes