I’m currently in the process of modernizing my home lab environment. I decided to go with Terraform, and the first step was getting to where I can spin up a new host in my vsphere cluster just by adding a few lines in terraform. …

I’m currently planning the installation of a structured wiring cabinet, and came across things I didn’t know – like the fact that keystone fiber jacks can be made from a variety of materials. This apparently matters.

When I think of Home Automation, IKEA never enters my thought process – until now. Some time ago they began producing the TRÄDFRI line of home automation products. Surprisingly enough, they make some pretty interesting stuff. It’s …

If you’ve ever set up DNS forwarding on a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and have your own internal authoritative DNS servers, then you may have noticed that it doesn’t quite work right. If you look up the hostname of your router via the …

Code verbosity is one of those topics that everyone has an opinion on – and mine will probably differ from yours. One of my particular quirks is that I like my code to fit in 80 columns wherever possible (or 132 on some …

I love my home, but the floorplan is a bit odd. It’s a popular thing in the region: they like to put a room or two adjacent to the front door, neither of which have doors of their own. These rooms seem solely for show rather than …

My Christmas was a general mess. It was supposed to be the first year I got to host it for the family, but then my 18-month-old nephew got sick and ended up in the hospital (don’t worry, he’s doing much better!). Everything fell …

I have an older iMac in my kitchen with a keyboard that’s on its last legs. Some of the keys don’t even work anymore, and it’s an exercise in frustration to use. This evening I tried to plug in an older aluminum keyboard, and it …

…or maybe a couple hundred, I would be interested in making a bid for the Lowe’s IRIS home automation business. It’s sad to see that Lowe’s is exiting the arena; while I wasn’t interested in a cloud-based system, the fact that a …

Amazingly enough, I’m still alive. Surprised?

Built on a similar platform as the HS-WD100+, the HS-WD200+ is a Z-Wave Dimmer that once more earns the “best in class” designation. It offers all the features of the 100+, but with additional enhancements, such as the addition of …

At some point while I clearly wasn’t looking, 2017 managed to escape. Now I’m stuck in 2018, and I have no clue how it happened. My attention span really is that bad.