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2023

My First Year-ish on the Fediverse
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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.

2021

Black Gold Quefrency Rev 3 Final Build
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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.
Home Assistant Backup to S3
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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.
The 10 Minute JS File Part 1
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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.
I Should Add Thoughts
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I should add thoughts to the site. Small form comments sort of like tweets

2020

Moving From Gatsby to Hugo
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I’ve moved to Hugo after probably the shortest time with any site generator. Firstly I love to change the theme of blog I get blog envy quite easily these days. But I’m not a themer so I don’t attempt to create anything like what I see on other sites.
Smart home
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For the last few years I’ve been trying to “smarten” our home up with technology in a security conscious way. There are a lot of IOT technologies out there that rely on third party servers often in undesired locations.
My Keyboards Part 2
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All my keyboards Time for an update on my keyboard collection! After part 1 I’ve expanded the collection and gotten rid of a few. Top left - YMD09 macro pad aka the zoom killer.
Upgrade to Gatsby and AWS
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It’s been over a year since I last blogged, there are a number of reasons: Broken realease pipeline (well not quite but it was messy) I wanted to move everything to docker I hated the way the blog looked A few weeks ago I started to the move to GatsbyJS after a few false starts I finally got there.

2019

Windows 10 isn't that bad to develop with
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After upgrading to Windows 10 finally I figured I’d check out what it’s like developing on Windows 10 and to be honest it isn’t that bad. Windows Subsystem Linux # I installed the Ubuntu image and switch shell to ZSH.