• AFROG Desk Lamp

    The AFROG 2th Gen Multifunctional LED Desk Lamp With Wireless Charger is a USB-powered desk lamp with touch controls for cool and warm light options, fine-grained dimming, a sleep timer, wireless charging and a USB-A power port. It has small green and blue LEDs inside the timer…

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  • esphome

    I’ve been writing notes to myself in the readme.me of my esphome repository. I’m going to make posts here instead, where I can leave pictures without putting them into GitHub And maybe other automation things. We’ll see

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  • Constraining Shapes

    I’m thinking of something of a VM map that looks something like this, duplicated at each hosting provider: zCloud Overall hypervisor, installed on the “bare metal” I rent; all other VMs are internal to this hypervisor Does not host any client-facing or VM-facing services. Forwards…

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  • Hosting

    I am thinking about setting up a hosting platform. I want to host my own things. I want to offer free hosting and other online services to people in my community. I would like to sell certain kinds of hosting in support of my tech…

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  • CUPS – IPP vs. IPPEverywhere

    CUPS, the tooling of most printing workflows on UNIX-ish systems including MacOS and many linux distributions, is an archaic, unwieldy, tool. It is also indispensable, at least for the moment IPP is a venerable printing standard that has been around since the 1900s and is…

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  • Vevor KW-780A

    Using the Vevor KW-780A vinyl cutter and plotter on Linux, MacOS, and Windows The Vevor KW-780A speaks the HPGL language. Inkscape is a popular choice for creating vector graphics and can output HPGL directly. Inkscape and other SVG workflows can also be used with a…

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