Using Tasmota in a completely offline configuration is extra special challenge. The use case was regularly operated events with no need for specific times. These are notes on how to accomplish that. Time based triggers do not fire until Tasmota thinks it has a

or, "I regret every ounce I am carrying."  I think this is working correctly. On my most recent trip, I decided to carry hand luggage only.  Specifically, bags that have no wheels.  And to limit it even more, when I left, I was only

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This is my guide to making haproxy work reasonably with the deployment model I’m constructing. In broad strokes, I’m looking to have haproxy running on a host which is acting as an http and https front end for a large number of

For several years, a small group of friends and I have been considering building a private overlay network for operation of our more esoteric, old, or weird networking needs. The work once again fell by the wayside as life happens, but once again, the

I use Chromebooks. I do all sorts of weird things with computers, networks, systems, radios, etc. This leads me to building and maintaining all sorts of machines. I have no less than 4 independent full hardware virtualization technologies that I interact with on a

There’s a lot of small SBCs out there. Some people have seen them, some have used them, some have a SBC habit that’s reaching ‘gotta catch them all’. Given some of the co-workers hadn’t encountered this class of devices before, I

I’ve recently been asked by a friend about dealing with a home networking setup left semi functional by the previous occupant. This friend hasn’t done the wired ethernet networking thing before, and was looking for guidance and assistance in finding the useful