My First Year-ish on the Fediverse

It’s about this time of year that marks my first year on the fediverse. I’ve really enjoyed it, I decided to quit Twitter just over a year ago and Reddit after they cut off third party apps. I have both my own Mastodon and Lemmy server. Mastodon is hosted with Masto.host, at the time I was pretty ill and didn’t want the hassle of managing it all myself, I also wanted the option of easily scaling it if I ever decided to open it up to friends/family....

December 31, 2023 · 3 min · Mike Bell

Black Gold Quefrency Rev 3 Final Build

As I wade ever deeper into the depths of the keyboard world I’m always amazed at what people can do and just how awesome kbs can look. For a long time I’ve wanted something a bit more than just the bog standard board. After spending a fair amount of time researching layouts/switches/lubing/stickering/stabs I finally settled on this beauty: Details Drop Panda switches stickered and lubed Keeb.io Quefrency Rev 3 Cherry Stabaliser (lubed so they don’t suck) 3mm frosted acrylic stacked case 3mm brass plate The keycaps are some random black ones I was using for a while Lubing and Stickering Half way through lubing all ~70 switches I started to curse myself, it’s so damned boring....

June 11, 2021 · 2 min · Mike Bell

Home Assistant Backup to S3

How to easily backup your Home Assistant configuration to an S3 bucket. Steps Go to Supervisor Add-on Store 3 dot menu - Repositories Add https://github.com/mikebell/hassio-backup-s3 Close Once the addon is installed you can click on it and follow the up to date readme file to configure your IAM user and policy. I then use hass-auto-backup with Node-RED to automate the process and send a message to my Discord server when complete....

April 8, 2021 · 1 min · Mike Bell

The 10 Minute JS File Part 1

This problem has been plaguing me for months now so I thought I’d write down everything I’ve done to try and solve the issue of the 10 minute js file. For some background I run a proxmox server in the garage with multiple VMs for k8s, home assistant, Unifi controller and piHole DNS. Home Assistant is pretty integral to our house now, most lights are run through it and there are multiple automations setup....

January 8, 2021 · 4 min · Mike Bell

I Should Add Thoughts

I should add thoughts to the site. Small form comments sort of like tweets

January 7, 2021 · 1 min · Mike Bell