For many years, this website served as my personal blog, where I wrote about pretty much anything I cared about — a weird mix of everything from film photography to technology to cooking to whatever else came to mind. In 2019, I split-out my film photography interests into a separate website, originally intending to kill this site entirely. In the end, I left a handful of my most popular posts online, but otherwise abandoned the site.
In 2024, I decided to resurrect this site, reactivate a few bits of old content, and start creating new posts as well. This site will remain a rather esoteric mix of topics that interest me. Those include ham (amateur) radio, technology (especially computing and networking), and food and cooking in particular, but it might also venture into home improvement, media, music, or anything else that pops to mind.
Regardless of what you came here for, I hope you find some items of interest.
Latest posts
Here are my latest posts. For a full list, visit the Posts section.
- Resolutions Are Easy; Reflection Is Useful
I’m not much for New Year’s resolutions, if I’m honest. I’ve never seen much value in daydreaming about all the changes I’m going to make when they rarely, if ever, stick. It often feels like… Read more: Resolutions Are Easy; Reflection Is Useful - Linux on a New Computer for the First Time
For years, I’ve had Raspberry Pi boxes around for specific duties, like classic arcade game emulation, running Pi-hole (a DNS sinkhole), running NextCloudPi (a self-hosted cloud platform), and for running Home Assistant. But until about… Read more: Linux on a New Computer for the First Time - Getting Linux Going on the Maxhub MI20 Mini PC (NUC)
Here’s a very niche article… Did you by any chance, as I did, pick-up a cheap NUC from Maxhub on Amazon to run Linux? And did you, as I did, discover that the Ethernet adapter… Read more: Getting Linux Going on the Maxhub MI20 Mini PC (NUC) - Bridging Wavelog and CAT: Rolling My Own
For months now, I’ve been using Wavelog (a fork of the Cloudlog application) as my amateur radio logging software of choice. It wasn’t particularly easy or straightforward to get it running, but it is running… Read more: Bridging Wavelog and CAT: Rolling My Own - Copying CW by Writing it Down is Not “Wrong”
One of the reasons that the only social media I use is Mastodon is that find that, on balance, it’s freer of polarizing expressions of opinion than Twitter (I refuse to call it by its… Read more: Copying CW by Writing it Down is Not “Wrong” - A Home Brew VHF/UHF (2m/70cm) Base Station Ham Radio Antenna
I don’t frequently operate VHF/UHF at home — I rarely operate it anywhere to be honest. But I certainly don’t do it enough to justify spending the cash for a commercially produced antenna. But my… Read more: A Home Brew VHF/UHF (2m/70cm) Base Station Ham Radio Antenna - Solving My Ham Radio Linux Computer Performance Problems
A few months ago, I got tired of remembering to take my MacBook Pro to the ham shack with me whenever I wanted to operate amateur radio digital modes like FT8, and decided I wanted… Read more: Solving My Ham Radio Linux Computer Performance Problems - Connecting Ambient Weather Weather Stations to a UniFi Network
While I love my Ambient Weather WS-2902 weather station, and am pleased that after nearly 10 years it’s still reliably reporting weather stats via its display console and feeding it over the net, a recent… Read more: Connecting Ambient Weather Weather Stations to a UniFi Network