I'm not your buddy, BirdPal
Birdbuddy is a brand of smart bird feeders. I like what it does but I hate the app. So I made a syncing tool for it. I saw a post by Dan Q titled Your 'App' Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it fo...
California Scrub Jays are jerks
My family knows my disdain for the CFJ. And now I have video proof of their bullying. You can hear him taunt the Finch before diving in.
Actually Writing Things Down
I've been at jury duty for weeks on a long running court case. in that time we're only allowed to take hand written notes on small legal pads that we can't take with us. I've actually been enjoying th...
TIL
TIL Things I recently Learned terraform versioning You can exclude specific versions with terraform's version constraint syntax. is anything above 6.0.0 but not exactly version 6.69.0 which has a bug...
Index out of range in terrafrom
Accidently nuked half of some resources and broke DNS (yes, it is in fact always DNS). One of the first things I learned and is on a lot of guides for terraform is how works. It’s one of the meta-argu...
DND One Shot Recommendations
Some Recs and Resources. It’s come up a few times so I made a page to quickly share with others. Death House Horror themed, prequel to Curse of Strahd, Death House is meant for 3rd to 5th level player...
Locking yourself out of SDDM with .bashrc
Transferring I’m going to SCaLEx23. I don’t tend to use my laptop as a primary device so I was transferring everything. I literally can’t live without my aliases and shortcuts so in my rush I somehow...
Rice
I like the fun linux commands that rice out your setup but I don’t like having to remember when/how to use them. I’ve got my that calls everything in . In there I’ve started throwing in files with cus...
Fixing the Bonavita 8 Cup
Ive been having a reoccurring issue with my coffee machine for the last two or so years. It would run for a bit and then stop even though the water reservoir was still not empty. Ive tried twice to de...
Formatting AWS Security Groups for a VMware Migration
The Problem At work we’re in the middle of a large lift and shift migration from VMware to AWS (for the same reason everyone is). Hundreds of servers across multiple departments, moved in waves. The f...
Bypassing RoyalRoad
Issue Royal Road likes to annoy pirates. This is (arguably) good. Royal Road doesn’t care if they annoy RSS users. This is bad. Here’s a walkthrough of the problem and the fix. The Problem: First, let...
RosterHash: fantasy football schedule viewer
I joined another league this year. I was losing track of who played when and what league. So I made GameTime (nope, that’s taken) RosterHash! Enter your Sleeper username and away you go. Features: Can...
Custom Domain and Emails
What is this? Let’s say you wanted to buy a domain like . You can host a personal blog at this address. Once you buy the domain, not only can you host content, but with a bit more tinkering you can se...
RSS - Still Alive
RSS - Still Very Useful I like having a centralized curated list of content. I’d rather go to a single page to catch up on new content instead of visiting or remembering to visit a bunch of different...
Fantasy Football Draft Tools
Draft Tools > Beer Sheets I used to recommend and use Beer Sheets, a tool I found online that gave good results every time I used it. I’ve gotten good feedback from people I’ve recommended it to. The...
Self Hosting
NOTE. This has not been updated in a long time. This is just a general overview of what I’m running. Updated sporadically, only includes things I’m actively using or have deployed. Networking In Produ...
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Self hosted blog for Eduardo Figueroa. Subjects include DIY projects, linux, and other things.