In this blog post I talk about how I use Home Assistant and its API to pull data from my ESP32 environmental sensors into Elastic.
Simple home observability with the ESP32 platform
In this blog post I talk about setting up a cheap temperature/humidity sensor based on an EPS32 board and BME280 sensor combined with the ESPHome project.
My Tech Journey, Part Five: Home Builds
In the fifth and last blog post on my tech journey, I talk about all of the computers I have built myself over the past 20 years.
My Tech Journey, Part Four: The Compaq Presario 5000
In the fourth post in this series, I talk about the computer I bought after college, the Compaq Presario 5000, and how I went in a different direction afterwards.
My Tech Journey, Part 3: The college years
In the third post of my tech journey blog series, I’ll be talking about the computers that got me through college.
My Tech Journey, Part Two: The IBM PS/1
In this second post of my tech journey blog series, I talk about our family’s first PC: an IBM PS/1 computer
My Tech Journey, Part One: The Coleco Adam
In this series, I’ll be talking about several products that got me interested in tech. My first post is about the first computer my family owned: the Coleco Adam.
Our wonderous 2024 Eclipse family journey
Our journey to see the total eclipse this year has been in the works since 2017, and was worth all of the waiting and planning.
Avoid this deletion gotcha when using Thunderbird with Google Mail
Using Thunderbird to manage your Google Mail account can work well, but if you truly want to delete email using Thunderbird, make sure you configure it correctly.
Fun with mod_security, htaccess, and PHP updates
After upgrading my website to PHP 8.1, Google alerted me to some URLs that were being blocked by mod_security. Learn how I fixed that error and set up rewrite rules to fix the old URLs on the fly.