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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…
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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).…
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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…
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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…
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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!…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Claude is kind of good
Image credit @fireship / TheCodeReport on YT. A few months ago I wrote about how Claude failed to build a simple macOS menu bar application. After burning through…
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crapslesscraps.com
I recently returned from a work trip in Las Vegas, Nevada. I’ve always enjoyed playing live craps, but I discovered a new fondness for bubble craps, specifically the…