This is a small blog where I talk about tech, from servers to CNC. That is all.
About
I’m an occasional systems administrator who prefers self hosting over pay hosting or many ad driven services. I’m also a Java and C developer and engineer with a background in 3d design and an interest in 3d printing, lasers, etc. I also have no idea how to blog.
Blog
InkScape Printing
In making the labels for my NFC music tags, I ran into a fun bug when printing from InkScape. Sometimes it doesn’t print your entire image. In my case, it printed all the outline boxes for the labels but NONE of the actual images for the labels. I found out from a forum post that …
Oddity in ESPHome
I ran into an oddity with the latest NFC Deck that I built. When starting up, it would take an hour for home assistant to connect and for me to be able to get logs out of it over WiFi with the ESPHome addon. The ESP I used was no different from the first NFC …
Backing up Git Repositories
We all rely quite a bit on cloud services that are hosted by faceless corporations, these are generally stable services, but if Google’s actions over the years have shown anything, it’s that these services can disappear overnight without warning. So I try to do cloud backups from time to time for the various services I …