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...

Model railroading has always played close to new technology. I mean, after all Lionel used an electric motor back when they were still relatively new to make the first electric toy train. I'm continuing in that tradition, but doing it at my own speed, making an electric toy train speed-control that I can control from the palm of my hand. That's right, from my phone!

We all love our pets, but nobody likes cleaning up after them when they "do their business," right? Well, I'm in that same boat. It's the reason I have a "Cat Closet," where my automatic litterbox is located. Trouble is, when he uses it, that thing gets to stinkin' - and pretty quick too! Thus, I've come to a resolution with a new home-automation system. I call it "ScentAssist." Let me explain...