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Pi Cluster Rebuild Guide Rebuilding my five-node Raspberry Pi 4 homelab cluster with Ubuntu Server, k3s, Rancher, Helm, and cert-manager.
2026-08-28
#linux#raspberry-pi
Learning to live with Canine Diabetes Life with a diabetic dog isn't as simple as giving insulin twice a day. Henry's journey has included Cushing's disease, seizures, blindness, glucose monitors, medication changes, and a lot of sleepless nights—but through all of it, he's still Henry.
2026-08-25
#dogs#life
The Home Lab Revisited My homelab has changed quite a bit since the last update, moving from consumer routers to OPNsense and eventually UniFi, while adding a dual-Xeon ThinkStation P710 with 192 GB of RAM for virtualization, containers, and more tinkering.
2024-11-28
#hardware#homelab
Harley Davidson Low Rider ST (FXLRST) After spending a couple of years modifying my Street Bob toward a Low Rider, I finally made the jump to a Low Rider ST and, of course, immediately started making it my own.
2024-11-21
#motorcycles
Voron Meet Kaos, my 350mm Voron 2.4r2—the inevitable result of going too far down the Klipper and 3D printing rabbit hole.
2024-03-07
#3d-printing
Homelab Update An update to my homelab with a larger network rack, rack-mounted Raspberry Pis, PoE networking, an OPNsense firewall, a dedicated VPN router, and a Dell T5600 running my containerized media services.
2023-01-21
#hardware#homelab
Klipper: The Gateway Drug to Voron How upgrading an old Ender 3 Pro led me from Marlin and OctoPrint to Klipper, Raspberry Pis, KlipperScreen, a second 3D printer, and eventually down the Voron rabbit hole.
2023-01-20
#3d-printing#klipper
Harley Davidson Street Bob (FXBBS) - 5-Gallon Tank Swap Swapping the Street Bob's 3.5-gallon tank for a 5-gallon Low Rider S tank, including the FXLRS fuel pump, sender, trim pieces, and everything needed to make the conversion work properly.
2023-01-05
#motorcycles