That time I forgot to create alerts for a leak sensor
I bought and setup a leak sensor… but forgot to have it alert me if it detected water 🤦♂️ Here’s what happened and my new alerting system. » Read more
Temperature sensing for Jupiter Garage
The other day I was listening to Linux Unplugged 441 and heard Chris mention how he wished he had a way to track the temperature in the garage where the serv... » Read more
Introducing My Home Assistant Setup
A year ago today (January 9th, 2021) I deployed what I consider my first production-grade instance of Home Assistant and couldn’t be happier. » Read more
Epomaker GK68XS: A great keyboard, horrific order fulfillment
3 months, 35 emails, and many Facebook Messenger messages later, I finally have all the things I paid for during the GK68XS Kickstarter. I originally ordered 3 keyboards: one of each color combination of the plastic framed wireless models. Sadly, delivery was nothing like what was advertised. Here’s the journey I had to take simply to get what I paid for. » Read more
OpenTelemetry Part 3: v0.6.0 gems and VMPooler
For part three of my journey in using OpenTelemetry (Otel) with Sinatra I am upgrading to the 0.6.0 release of the OTel gems to get many new features, adding instrumentation to VMPooler, and learning what not to do. Part 3 also includes opening several issues and making my first code contribution to opentelemetry-ruby. Lastly, I will be sharing some more complete code examples showing how all the bits are configured. » Read more