Author Archives: matthannan

Take Note

Posted on 12 September 2023 by matthannan

I am on my end of summer vacation and working through some psychic backlog items. Don’t get me started on Wireguard VPN. Grumble, grumble. But I am kind of relieved to have spent the morning screwing around with note applications again.… Read the rest

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Outbound VPN on the pfSense Router

Posted on 16 July 2023 by matthannan

Privacy is increasingly a priority in my design decisions when it comes to what I what I am implementing in my home network. I am loathe to describe it as a “homelab“, as this is about as front-line production as it gets.… Read the rest

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Further Adventures with Music on Raspberry Pi

Posted on 11 June 2023 by matthannan

I have a Raspberry Pi 3B (not the Plus version) with a HiFiBerry Digi+ DAC HAT attached. This is connected to my old school Sony receiver via TOSLINK fiber. I also have a 10.1″ touchscreen attached. The goal of all of this was to build a digital jukebox to play my music collection through.… Read the rest

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Summer Vacation 2023

Posted on 19 May 2023 by matthannan

Legoland in Upstate New York. Definitely a good time.

The park was much larger than expected, and it is built on the side of a mountain, so it was easy getting to the lower level early in the day, but oh so rough coming back up at the end!… Read the rest

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One Note To Rule Them All (not the one you think)

Posted on 25 March 2023 by matthannan

Looking back at my web search history, I have been on a quest for several months now to find a note-taking application that checks a couple of very specific boxes and that I can use for documenting my home network (aka home lab) setup.… Read the rest

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Finally upgrading my Raspberry Pi 3B+ from SD-Card to SSD

Posted on 15 January 2023 by matthannan

I have one last Pi still running on SD-Card and know it is only a matter of time before it the card gives up the ghost. This is my basement Pi, which has done service as an IR camera with Open CV, and still does duty as a Python development kick-around, and, more importantly, is my current air quality sensor for the basement.… Read the rest

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Enable Timestamp in History Command in Linux

Posted on 15 January 2023 by matthannan

This is something that I have often thought would be very handy to have, but was never arsed to go looking to see if it was possible. Well, I was arsed today.

You can easily see which commands you ran in the past.

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pfSense: Guide to Fix Nintendo Switch 2618-0516 Unable to Connect to others console / NAT traversal

Posted on 1 January 2023 by matthannan

Had to set this up in order to get online, multi-player working.

Source: pfSense: Guide to Fix Nintendo Switch 2618-0516 Unable to Connect to others console / NAT traversal… Read the rest

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The Bench is Complete

Posted on 12 December 2022 by matthannan

Santa is set to receive a new LED tomorrow.… Read the rest

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First Build in the New Shed

Posted on 11 December 2022 by matthannan

Last week, the power was finally connected to the shed. I’ve not talked about it in a while, but I paid to have it roofed, as I have no business being on a roof. Jenny helped me with painting the structure.… Read the rest

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