Space Cadet Pinball, amazing that you can play these old games just right in a browser these days... #>
Raspberry Pi 4 Heatsink: Placement, Size, & More. The Pi4 has a different set of chips (naturally) than the 3 so it took me a bit to figure out where to put the heatsinks. #>
Internal Domains with DNSMasq and Pi-Hole, as the list of IP things on my internal network grows this gets more important... #>
Monitoring Home Power Consumption for less than $25. I had bought an SDR dongle a while back but about a year ago I got serious about using it with the rtlamr software listed in the article and got everything working. Right now I'm reading my electric and my gas meters, though I've heard eventually they'll be installing "smart" meters that do time-of-use billing and run over 5g so I don't know how long this will work for me. #>
NGINXConfig from Digital Ocean. I'm still using Apache and understand it better but I like the idea of a "builder for configs" for things you rarely touch. #>
Short-Form Camera Mount. That's pretty clever. #>
Handy links to monitor an SSL certificate:
- crt.sh (gives a long history, I can use it see when I switched over to Let's Encrypt!)
- Hacker News comment with a cron job (which will email you via cron if it's within 10 days of expiring)
- certdays.sh, a quick bash script to report length of time left on the certificate.
How to Convert a Computer ATX Power Supply to a Lab Power Supply. Next time I find a neighbor throwing away an old computer... #>
Custom Home Assistant component for Winix air filters. I've never connected mine to the app or the internet, I just leave it running in the corner and let it do it's thing year round... I also despise any device that requires me to use some "cloud account" and not just have local control. #>
WinCompose for special characters, for Windows, makes it simple to type characters that aren't on your native keyboard. #>
pyxcel - python module for Xcel Energy Customers. Unfortunately there hasn't been an update in 5 years and this doesn't work. Might be a good starting point to update though! #>
Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments - BBC Arts (YouTube video). This was super fun to watch. #>
IrScrutinizer, nice Linux app to read IR remote control codes. I setup a basic receiver on an ESP8266 and just use ESPHome to have a "write out the raw values what you see" and it worked great for a couple of projects of mine but this is a nice alternative. #>
PEP 0 – Index of Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs). I'm very much a beginner at Python and sometimes come across discussion that includes a reference to a pep so finding this list was nice. #>
An Overview of How to Do Everything with Raspberry Pi Cameras. I have one aimed out my home office window that snapshots every minute and then every hour compiles into a video of "the last 24 hours". I don't always check it but there's been some neat outputs, like watching the moon set, or seeing a storm roll in... #>
