Radon - an colorless, oderless gas. Sounds familiar, right? But you've probably heard that phrase in relation to other gasses like the carbon-monoxide, or perhaps natural gas. Radon poses health threats, as well, but with the added benefit of radiation. Scared yet? Don't worry.

I recently decided to drop Windows (finally), and move to Linux, full-time. But that means moving to Pipewire; which is both exciting and slightly daugnting. You see, to make the move, I need to get VBAN working on Linux, and talking to Pipewire. Hmm. Time to do some digging...

I'm quite the self-hosting fiend. That's well-established, at this point, but I wanted to go into some of the details about my recent adventures, exposing SSH service to both my GitLab and Gitea servers.

Finally! Python 3.11 is out! It's new, it's fast(er than previous Python versions), and it's got some dandy new features. And if you wanted to know how I go about putting it on a Windows machine, let me show you...

It's been a crazy month, but isn't that how Halloween is supposed to be, anyway? Crazy? Well, maybe not like this. Let me explain...

Jenkins is a powerful, albeit confusing, tool. You can structure all manner of automated processes to build source code, distribute packages, and automate the boring stuff. It's great! But Jenkins and Windows (or... Winders) don't always play nicely. I learned this the hard way in my "day-job" and had to find a technique to resolve some of this bad-behavior. So hopefully you might find this helpful!

Well, I just recently converted to a new Nextcloud instance at home. Gosh, I sure hope I wasn't using any of those links externally on any important websites like a blog, or anything... Oh. I was? Awkward...

Ok, so I clearly wasn't alive when Mount St. Helens blew its lid in May of 1980; but that doesn't mean that I haven't had some adventures of my own with the eruption's aftermath! I spent this Labor Day with my mother, working on some improvements to the front porch celing; prepping it for some new tongue-and-groove Cedar boards, new lights, and even speakers. But before any of the new... we need to get rid of the old...

I've talked about how someone can make PlantUML diagrams come to life, directly in markdown for blog-sites, and I've touched on other automation techniques I use to make blogs come together from plain text, but how about some circuit diagrams? Well, there wasn't a neat tool to help make this a possibility, until now!

To host my home services, I need to be able to have a dynamic-DNS, and to do that, I've been using DuckDNS (a great service, by the way), but it's time that I start getting more serious, and remove theCNAME from my domain, and get something a little more proper. But... to do that, I'll need my public IP. Good thing my ISP-provided-router displays that on the front page! Now, it's time for just a little Python...