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This fun little festival takes place over a weekend in Orange, California – about a 15 minute drive away for us. I didn’t take nearly enough pictures but here are some and notes about them. One corner of it. The… Read moreVintage Computer Festival Socal (VCFSocal) 2025
Doing this job properly requires pulling both the windshield and the rear window. The windshield had a crack in the corner, so I wanted to replace it anyways, and the rear window was fine. The old headliner rested on my… Read moreHeadliner And Window Seal Replacement (1968 Mustang)
I really like the well-built and compact Node 304 case, and it has nearly everything I could ask for for my mini-itx server and 6x hard drives. The only little gripe, as mentioned in my previous post about the home… Read moreModifying My Node 304 Home Server Front
I was sorting some pictures recently and realized how often I’ve changed our home server. Early on we just needed a file server, but now we have DVR and media server duties, security cameras, and a number of self-hosted and… Read moreMy Home Server Evolution
After 18 years of daily usage, our 2005 Prius was starting to have issues with its gauge cluster. It seems to be a common issue, possibly related to an under-sized capacitor that eventually gets too weak. The car will still… Read moreFixing Up Our Gen 2 Prius Gauge Cluster
In July I wrote the first post about how to setup the energy dashboard, and after a few bugs were worked out with the energy monitoring device, I’m happy to report we’ve had several months of reliable data collection and… Read moreFollow-up to Home Assistant Energy Dashboard with SCE
This is how I got the Home Assistant Energy dashboard to show our home energy demand, solar production, and energy pushed to and pulled from Southern California Edison (SCE). Adding SolarEdge To Home Assistant We added solar in fall of… Read moreHome Assistant Energy Dashboard with Southern California Edison (SCE)