If you prowl web sites that discuss embedded hardware and operating systems, you will occasionally find people complaining that Linux is not a “real-time operating system”. What do they mean by that? Why is it important? Why do we …

My Terraforming efforts continue in my homelab, but Terraform alone isn’t enough. Some of my services require ongoing management, and I want to capture that configuration as code to make it reproducible when needed. Puppet is …

Earlier today I was working on a new post – and yes, I’m actually writing new content, and not just about Hugo! But that’s not the point. The point is, I came across an annoyance, and managed to also find a …

When we think of a blog, we typically think of the content – but in practice, we also have to worry about the taxonomies. Tags and Categories, oh my! These are hard enough to manage with a live system like WordPress; how do we do …

While Hugo is overall quite excellent, it does have a few warts, and one in particular was a problem for this site. Sometimes I write fairly long articles, and they don’t really lend themselves well to being a single huge …

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. …

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 …

Sensative Strips are thin devices that you can install on a door or window to detect the open or closed state. They’re small, they’re functional, and amazingly enough, they speak Z-Wave. Install one on the frame of your door, and …

I’m mainly looking at OpenHAB for support of the advanced functionality in the HomeSeer HS-WD100+ in-wall dimmers. Specifically, they have multi-tap functionality supporting four commands in addition to the generic On/Off …

Have you ever wondered what the Linux TUN/TAP driver is for? Wonder no more! After spending most of last weekend tweaking the NuttX Simulator network support, I now have a pretty good idea of what TUN/TAP is, what it’s useful for, …