Logitech MX Mechanical Mini & Master 3S
I am a bit of a keyboard nerd. Earlier this year when I did my Marie Kondo impression and decluttered my computer junk, I had several keyboards I sold. I was in the market for a new main keyboard now…
Outdoor Temperature Sensors for Home Assistant
Recently, I have had a few things I want to monitor temperature of with Home Assistant. The chicken coop needs one for Kim's peace of mind. She likes to know when it's cold so she can turn the heater on.…
Python Nerdery: Data Scraping for Home Assistant
One thing I want to monitor in Home Assistant isn't supported in any traditional way. I want to know how much propane our generator has, and I only have a local provider website to work with. Enter Python to load…
Change Position to Change Perspective?
I recently decided to move a PC I wasn't using much into our living room. I had been using a laptop stand to work on my Macbook Pro, but it wasn't remotely ergonomic and I felt it. I had a…
DIY Camera Storage Table
I needed an end-table, and I needed somewhere to store my camera with a long telephoto lens, so I took to the shop.
Python Nerdery: The Casual Bird Report
I have a HaikuBox listening to bird calls near my house. This morning's coffee tinker is collecting visit data from the API, passing it to Ollama with a custom prompt and outputting a casual PDF report I can read. import…
Ollama Notes Chat Tool
I've recently switched to Obsidian Notes and wanted a way to integrate my notes into my Open WebUI implantation of Ollama. I came up with a little integration on Github if you would like to play with it. It's working…
Information Management Update
Several of my goal breaks were oriented towards sorting out my tools and processes: My note taking had become splintered between OneNote, Apple Notes and many text files. I need a single source and it needs to be something that…
Now that is a fast network
With the Cisco upgrade, 10Gbps SFP+ Transceivers, a 10Gbps NIC in my PC and a 10Gbps NIC in my NAS...damn.
Python Nerdery: Security Camera Color Grading
I have a camera that shoots Mount Rainier all of the time. This morning's coffee tinker was automatically color grading the stream import cv2 import numpy as np from datetime import datetime import os class RTSPGrader: def __init__(self): # RTSP…