I was recently tasked with moving a deployment from RHEL8 to RHEL9. As part of this deployment, I needed to execute some SQL statements against an AWS Redshift instance. On RHEL8, this was accompli...

My son was recently trying to play multiplayer Mario Kart 8 on Nintendo Switch with his friends. However, he was unable to join his friend’s room and his friend was unable to join his room. Both ro...

A few weeks ago I setup Rage Against the Garage Door Opener (RATGDO) with the stock 2.1 firmware on my two garage doors - see info here. One door has been working consistently, while one as been ra...

My brother-in-law recently had a Golden Tee GO machine from Incredible Games stop working. It is the original version with the screen built into the cabinet. He was playing it when it just shut off...

In my previous house, I used a custom board and NodeMCU to integrate my garage door opener. However, the new garage door opener is Security+ 2.0 and used an encrypted communication protocol. The P...

This does not work for newer Security+ 2.0 garage door openers. See Local Garage Door Control with RATGDO for a much better off the shelf product. In my previous house, I wanted to add my gara...

In playing with Jekyll and static sites, I’ve recently learned about the webp image format and LQIP (low quality image place-holders). At some point I’ll make this better - but for now it is just s...

I recently had the need to create a backup image of a portable USB device to store for safe keeping. This was not a bootable drive, just a drive with files on it. Yeah, I could have copied the file...

Originally, I was looking at using staticman to add comment functionality. This is a NodeJS app you host to receive POST requests from forms on your static site. With this, it creates PRs against y...

I recently purchased three Dell i350-T4 to add to my Proxmox nodes. The nodes are in generic 2U cases I got off EBay so I ordered the low profile cards. Turns out, the case I have uses full sized P...