It’s not a home improvement project unless I go back to the hardware store like 20 times because of all the things I got wrong or forgot. 🤦‍♂️

I'm a huge fan of ServerPartDeals. Not only do I love their manufacturer re-certified hard drives, but their customer service is top notch! Was having some issues and called their support, immediately connected, and they immediately resolved my issue! 10/10 absolutely love that company.

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Z-Wave for Home Assistant I bought the Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 and added it to my Home Assistant by connecting it to a Raspberry Pi in a central location. Here are the details of my setup.

Finally got my Z-Wave network set up with the awesome ZWA-2! I absolutely love this thing and decided to write a blog post about my decisions involving choosing Z-Wave and my specific setup using a Pi in a central location with Z-Wave JS UI.

johnbwoodruff.com/posts/zwave/

#homelab #homeassistant

Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 The ultimate way to connect Z-Wave devices to Home Assistant.

I accidentally covered all the identifying info apparently! 🤣 it’s the Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2. Super cool device.

www.home-assistant.io/connect/zwa-2/

Home Assistant Z-Wave antenna.

Stoked to finally get my z-wave network set up! It looks like a paper towel holder but it’s glorious long range z-wave! 😁

#homelab #homeassistant

Novella - Elevate Your Writing Experience Discover the future of writing with Novella - the modern, distraction-free application. Unleash powerful functionality without the complexity of traditional word processors.

Also if you’d like to check out Novella, you can download it at novella.app

I recently released my side project! Novella is a modern, distraction free writing application! I’ve been working on it on and off for years and finally decided to release it. It’s been quite the side project, and I wrote all about it! Check it out if you’d like!

johnbwoodruff.com/posts/novella/

BLUESKY SEAN?? YES SEAN! YESSSSS!!!

I haven't used it in years but I also haven't needed something like it. I've used Screen Studio for making "sizzle"-style videos, but those are usually very simple short things. Not sure what course content creators are using these days.

If costs keep rising (which I'm sure they will) and electricity gets more expensive (I'm sure that will too) then I'll likely start looking more seriously at getting some lower powered machines to make up my homelab. Enterprise gear is fun but not at such high costs.

I finally decommissioned my Dell R720. I had bought an R730 a bit ago and finally decided I'd had enough of running both. (electricity lol) So after a bunch of VM migrations and a GPU move, I am back down to 1 enterprise server lol! It feels nice. (and hopefully my wallet will thank me)

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Oh no. Does that mean in the future you'll be the "geriatric gen z"? 👴

I know I could use kubernetes for better distribution and management but honestly I deal with that all day at work and I'm not looking for more of that haha. I like the simplicity of docker compose and portainer for insights. If my homelab gets too complex then it becomes a chore rather than fun.

I've currently got one larger VM for my docker apps and use Traefik labeling to get it proxied with SSL. My next #homelab project is I'm going to spin up a few VMs on different machines so they can all be smaller and a little more distributed, then get Traefik hooked up to them.

I LITERALLY SCREAMED WHEN THAT CAME ON

That's sick!! Stoked to use this!!

I already have a lifetime Plex Pass and it works flawlessly for me so I have stuck with it. I'm sure one day there will be a reason for me to try Jellyfin, but I've been very happy with Plex for years.

This thing is so awesome, I've been using it for all sorts of things to help diagnose issues or make recommendations about managing my Nx workspace. Awesome work by the @nx.dev team! 🎉

This post is brought to you by the literal cardboard I received from my local Little Caesar's this evening. I'm still not over it.

A pie chart captioned "Little Caesar's Pizza". 40% is labeled "Terrible", 55% is labeled "Mediocre", and 5% is labeled "Best Damn Pizza You've Ever Had".

I made a (pizza) pie chart about it. It's scientific and peer reviewed by my siblings and close friends.

Those experiences have me in a chokehold. The utter magnificence of that glorious Little Caesar's pizza potential has me coming back regularly, hoping I'll experience it again. I'm plagued by my palate's memory of previous pizza perfection. And yet, 9 times out of 10, I am disappointed.

Sometimes you crave cheap pizza. It's a different mood than when you want high quality. I can't stop buying Little Caesar's. Why do I do that to myself, when the vast majority of their pizza is either mediocre or straight up cardboard terrible? Because sometimes I get an absolute God Tier pizza.

😍 Okay how sneak peak is this? Like weeks away or days away? 🤣🙏

This is sick. I'd love to see if integration like this could help Cursor Agent to identify things such as areas for optimization if the project graph is overly complex, for example. So many possibilities there!

The irony of me doing this one day after posting this meme. 🤣

Ms Casey from Severance

Your Outie has a fully implemented and regularly tested 3-2-1 backup strategy.

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Finally deleted my Twitter account. Kept meaning to over the last year, but never got around to doing it. It was a long time coming. The Bluesky community and platform is better in every way. Excited to be permanently away from all that.

Update: It's very fun.

Ah, the weekend. I bought Manor Lords, it was on my Steam wish list for a while and went on sale. Stoked to start building my quaint medieval village. I'll post back with my initial thoughts after I've played for a bit.

GitHub - geerlingguy/mini-rack: Miniature rack builds, for portable or compact Homelabs. Miniature rack builds, for portable or compact Homelabs. - geerlingguy/mini-rack

This mini rack project is so cool. If I was starting a homelab today I would 100% go this route. Not to say my route (or anyone else's route) is bad, but this is awesome having so many amazing options for a compact and low-powered #homelab.

github.com/geerlingguy/...