I’m Finally Back! For now, at least. As previously noted, I’ve spent way too much time recently hiding from the world and/or not doing anything useful. The reasons still escape me; sometimes, my life is just like that.

Just a couple of general updates to the boredom project: Added an uppercase-only font and updated the live config to use it. Lowercase letters are kinda iffy on that thing.

Four months ago, give or take, I was all in on getting my business set up. Building new compute environments, getting initial web stuff together, registering the LLC, looking at the various regulatory crap that needed to be …

Building my new business environment started with repurposing an old Dell R620 as a Proxmox host. I quickly noticed, however, that the information that showed up in the system’s iDRAC interface was… wrong.

Puppet is extremely useful, but has a number of annoying deficiencies – among them, the way it handles node configuration. External Node Classifiers Are A Thing, but you have to use something like Foreman to store and supply …

With the various personal projects I’ve done (in addition to the business I’m working on), the number of PCBs that I’ve designed is growing. I often have spares laying around, and I recently decided they would …

My kitchen pantry is fairly small. It’s actually no larger than the average coat closet. I have to use that space as efficiently as possible, and not waste any of it.

Since I’ve never actually touched a 3D printer before, I had no idea what to expect when my X1 arrived. What would it take to go from boxed bits and bobs to actual results?

The business I’m researching involves hardware. This has led to a need to create prototypes of said hardware. The electronic part of that is, honestly, fairly easy given my skillset.

I’m actually supposed to be working on naming my hopeful new business right now, but I was poking around and realized that it’s been just over a year since I revamped the site, noving from WordPress to Hugo.

It’s been about two and a half months since I started playing with the Click & Grow (and it seems like a whole lot longer). I find that I’m enjoying the hobby, and I see no reason to stop.

While I enjoy the DIY thing, building a business requires a different mindset. I don’t want to cut out the creativity, but I also can’t afford to waste time. You’ll hear business types discuss the …