Category Archives: Technology
Moving a Multi-Volume btrfs File System to a New Machine
A few years ago, I set up a “franken-NAS” using an Atomic Pi (a single-board computer running an Intel Atom processor that was originally intended to be used in some type of robot), a USB3 hard drive “toaster,” and a couple of WD Red hard drives. When I set it up, I decided to use […]
Expanding the File System on a Le Potato with Raspberry Pi OS
I have a Libre Computer Le Potato single board computer that I bought during the pandemic when Raspberry Pi boards were pretty much impossible to get. It has turned out to be a great little machine that’s been so reliable that a year or so ago I decided to move some of my most important […]
Simple Image Galleries With Eleventy
As I continue converting my largest non-work site from Jekyll to Eleventy, I keep coming across things that I did in Jekyll that no longer work in Eleventy. One of these is image galleries. Jekyll and Eleventy have a fundamentally different approach to how they handle files. Jekyll splits all of the files in the […]
Dynamic Autocomplete with AlpineJS and (Almost) No Code
I’m in the process of adding some new features to a web application I created several years ago. It’s an app that makes it easy for a handful of non-technical users to manage users and groups in a third-party system. It’s a multipage app that doesn’t use a lot of JavaScript, but where it does […]
I’m An Engineer
From time to time when I was a kid, my grandparents would take me to Santa’s Land, a Christmas themed theme park in southern Vermont. On one of those trips, I remember buying a mechanical Christmas tree toy in the gift shop. The tree was made of three aluminum triangle-ish segments that were mounted to […]