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The Machine Was Never the Future
In movies and popular culture, every vision of the future looks like I, Robot. Robots walking around doing our chores. Giant mechanical suits that make humans stronger. Autonomous vehicles, machines…
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DIY Sauna Plans
A lot of people that watched my DIY Backyard Sauna Sauna Series on YouTube asked me if they could purchase the plans. So I put two sets together that cover…
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Building a Backyard Sauna — Part 5: Finishing the Sauna
The final post in my DIY backyard sauna build series. If you missed earlier parts: Part 1 (site prep & framing), Part 2 (roof & weatherproofing), Part 3 (siding, window,…
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DIY Backyard Sauna Build – Part 4: Lighting, Vapor Barrier & Interior Cedar
Part 4 of my DIY backyard sauna build. If you’re just joining: Part 1 (site prep & framing), Part 2 (roof & weatherproofing), Part 3 (siding, window, ventilation). This is…
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DIY Backyard Sauna Build – Part 3: Ventilation, Siding & Glass
Part 3 of my DIY backyard sauna build. If you’re just joining, start with Part 1 (site prep and framing) and Part 2 (roof, sheathing, and weatherproofing) With the structure…
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DIY Backyard Sauna Build – Part 2: Roofing, Sheathing, and Insulation
Part 2 of my DIY backyard sauna build is here! In this episode I get the sheathing up, build and install the roof, wrap the whole structure in Tyvek, install…
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DIY Backyard Sauna Build – Part 1: Site Prep & Framing
I spent the last several months designing and building a sauna from scratch in my backyard and finally started posting the build on YouTube. Part 1 is live! It covers…
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If Your Website Only Works in Chrome, It Doesn’t Work
I posted that on X back in January of 2024. I believed it then. I believe it now. But I’m starting to wonder if the rest of the internet got…
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I Built a Menu Bar App That Turns My Wife’s Texts Into Calendar Events
My day is a wall of notifications. IRC, Slack, Discord, P2s, Adium jabber alerts, ntfy.sh pings, Telegram, WhatsApp, iMessage. I have thousands of streams of text coming at me every…
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What Happens When You Move 1,000 Servers to cgroup v2
We’ve been running a large-scale Kubernetes cluster on Scientific Linux 7 for years. It works. It’s stable. Nobody complains. So naturally, we decided to migrate everything to Debian 12. I’m…