Background I’ve been running Seerr at home for a while now. It’s a self-hosted media request manager, forked from Jellyseerr/Overseerr, and it’s the kind of app that gets exposed to the internet pretty regularly since family members need to be able to submit requests. That always …

If you run a home lab or a self-hosted setup, there is a good chance you have come across dashdot. It is a slick, glassmorphism-style server monitoring dashboard that shows you CPU load, RAM usage, network stats, and more in real time. It also has a handy single-widget embed mode, where you can pull …

Recently, the Elgato Stream Deck Plus was released. My friends and I were looking at the device and really wanting the knobs to control just the volume of our PC volume. However, I didn’t want to buy the whole device just for a knob. This is the journey I made to DIY my volume knob. This post …

I recently had my barn freezer go out. While it’s always inconvenient, I had just bought half of a cow, which is quite costly. A good majority of the meat had gone bad, and we didn’t know it for a day or so. To ensure this didn’t happen again, I tried to see if I could use my nerd …

Every year or two, my GnuPG keys expire on KeyBase and in various key servers. Every time, I forget the process, and have to re-learn it. This post serves as a reminder to myself, or anyone else trying to do the same thing. It’s trivially easy, and there are GUI applications which can do it …

Last year during Black Friday, I bought a Cricut Explore Air 2 to make custom stickers, tshirts, and what not. Due to the fact that I like 3D printing and other CNC devices, it seemed right up my alley. Being the security enthusiast that I am, I couldn’t help but look at their site as it was …