Author Archives: matthannan

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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The 179 Days of Deodorant

Posted on 11 December 2022 by matthannan

How festive! A holiday deodorant update. God, I love this blog.

Anyway, yeah, 179 days to get through my last jar of Pretty Frank Seaside Activated Charcoal deodorant. Summer and the lessening of the COVID resulted in this veritable sprint through the jar.… Read the rest

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Configuring VLANs on Proxmox- An Introductory Guide

Posted on 3 December 2022 by matthannan

Much easier to implement than I was expecting.
I am moving what will be my initial Mastodon server off of my main (Trusted) vlan to the IoT vlan. I need to investigate the best way to implement Proxmox in general. Should I create a Server vlan?… Read the rest

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Air quality measurement sensor with ESPhome

Posted on 5 November 2022 by matthannan

The original guide shows the build using the ESP8266 board. While there is nothing wrong with this build, the ESP8266 does not have built-in Bluetooth support, which is all the rage these days.

Source: Air quality measurement sensor with ESPhome

I have a working ESP32 prototype on my desk.… Read the rest

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