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.
Category: Tech
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.
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.
ParseFit: My simple Python tool to parse TCX files from Google Fit
After losing all my workout data when SportyPal disappeared, I wrote a tool in Python to parse TCX files from Google Fit so it doesn’t happen again.
How to configure Kibana behind an nginx proxy
In my previous post about upgrading to Elastic 8, I signed off with the promise of sharing how I put Kibana behind an nginx proxy. Here’s the post on how I did that, and what I did to make it work after a few hours of messing around with various settings. If you want the… Continue reading How to configure Kibana behind an nginx proxy
My almost-effortless upgrade experience (and lessons learned) with Elastic 8
I had a relatively painless upgrade from Elastic 7 to Elastic 8, and your experience can be even better if you keep a few things in mind based on my lessons learned.