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Free inference isn't free: moving translation out of the browser
Support teams talk to customers in whatever language those customers use. If you only read English, a message in Japanese or Portuguese is not much use to you.
Building a networked photo frame
In my quest to get better with electronics and hardware projects, I recently built my own "digital picture frame" project as gifts for my grandparents.
Home Assistant, Thread & Matter Across Multiple VLANs
Most "get Thread/Matter working with Home Assistant" guides end with the same shrug: "just put all your IoT stuff on the same VLAN as Home Assistant."
Surfacing Home Assistant Voice Timers on a Custom Display
I've been building a little Stream-Deck-style control panel for my desk that talks to Home Assistant (future more in-depth blog post coming soon).
Field Note
AI Parallels to Hardware Prototyping
Years ago, building hardware meant a garage full of equipment, a supplier relationship, and a tolerance for $10k mistakes.
Protonmail Export to MBOX
You might know Protonmail as the security conscious email provider. After being a loyal customer for 5 years, I've also watched them grow to be more and more user hostile.
They forced me to use a Macbook!
I recently started a new job at Plain and in addition to all the normal new-hire nerves, I was faced with my first Apple device - a Macbook Pro.
Getting Started with Matter and Thread
Every few months my smart home addiction kicks in and I tend to buy another little sensor, light, widget, etc.
ProtonBridge Headless Mode
Updated 2026-05-10 with latest versions and instructions
OPNsense Multi-WAN Tailscale
My goal with this project was to allow some devices on my local LAN to use a Tailscale exit-node as a gateway to exit out onto the internet.
Windows 11 on Proxmox
Update 2: Proxmox has added support for adding vTPM devices to a VM with 7.0-13. For more details, check out their docs.
Link Screenshot Previews
I stumbled upon @raunofreiberg's UI/UX experiments at uiw.tf recently and was super inspired by the 'hover links for their screenshots' one.
Tailwind Read Progress Bar
Update: CSS is getting a native @scroll-timeline that will make this much easier! See Kevin Powell and Adam Argyle work with it in Chrome Canary here.
Github Codespaces
Github announced their new web based development environment called Codespaces at their Satellite 2020 Event. To be honest, this was the feature I was most excited about this year.
libvirt qemu VMs
With a fresh desktop linux install, I wanted to avoid installing VirtualBox again and finally learn how to setup a KVM VM with tools such as qemu and libvirt.
HomeAssistant RaspberryPi 4
Quick wrap up of how to install HomeAssistant on a fresh RaspberryPi OS (32-bit) install.
Installing Overwatch on Arch Linux
I hadn't played video games in what felt like ages, but suddely a strong urge to get back into Overwatch overcame me..
My journey to serverless and back
So I've had some experience with the whole "serverless" thing over the past few months. A few cloudflare workers, a netlify function here or there to spice up a static site.
Docker + Localhost MySQL
I was having the hardest time getting applications in docker containers to connect to the instance of mysql runnning on the host without using host networking mode in docker.
Standard Notes Selfhosted Installation
Standard Notes is an opensource web-based notes application.
Google Calendar API Sucks
I've been building a little enterprise app at work to deal with network maintenances and it has a good deal of Google Calendar integration.
My own DNS-over-HTTPS Server
With all the hype surrounding DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), I wanted to try it out for myself and see what it was all about.
MagicMirror
This is simply a collection of links, plugins, and parts used to build my "MagicMirror".
Retropie
This is just a copy of my 'to-do list' for the RetroPie Raspberry Pi project.
Setting up a Raspberry Pi
This is a quick run down of the steps I like to take to initialize a fresh Raspberry Pi. Mostly so I can find it again later, but maybe you'll find it useful too.
Lynis - Linux Server Auditing
So you’ve got your system up and running the way you like it, but your wondering what else can I do to harden my server?
vsftpd Setup
So an FTP server is often one of the first things people want to setup on a new server.
Tripwire
I stumbled upon this nice little program to keep an eye on your system files to make sure no one inappropriate is changing them!