Development
How I Redesigned this site with Astro and Tailwind CSS
The story of migrating from a bloated WordPress site on DreamHost to a lightning-fast static site built with Astro and Tailwind CSS, hosted for free on Cloudflare Pages.
Blog
Insights & Thoughts
Insights on technology, leadership, productivity, and personal growth in the tech industry.
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Infrastructure
Fixing unavailable Frigate entities in Home Assistant, and where I stopped fighting live video
The Home Assistant Frigate integration found every camera but every entity showed unavailable. The fix was one disabled setting: MQTT. Getting live video through the integration was a harder problem I chose not to win.
Networking
A Traefik 503 that was really a stale firewall address list
nvr.example.net returned a 503 through Traefik while the NVR was healthy on the LAN. The reverse proxy had moved to a Keepalived VIP, but the firewall address list that lets Traefik reach the NVR still named the old proxy IPs.
Infrastructure
Stabilizing flaky Wyze cameras in Frigate, up to a point
Six of my nine Frigate cameras are rock solid. The three Wyze units on WiFi would not stay connected. Here is what actually helped, what did not, and the honest place it landed, because some of the problem is the cameras themselves.
Wellness
The Gateway Experience: CIA Research, Conspiracy Theories, and What It Actually Does
A deep dive into the Monroe Institute's Gateway Experience program, from its development and CIA investigation to the wild claims surrounding it and what it's actually like to use.
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