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Home Office Project: Overkill Workbench Series Part 5 Workbench completed

Home Office Project: Overkill Workbench Series Part 5 Workbench completed

After a long break (I couldn't reach my computers from all the mess I had been working on to write some update posts 😅) from part 4, now we continue the adventure with building this overkill workbench.

Evening Project: PHP based Discourse keyword mention notification Telegram bot

Evening Project: PHP based Discourse keyword mention notification Telegram bot

As we ran a business for electric skateboard/mountainboard parts, we participate in the community. Still, we cannot always track all the posts and topics where people mention our brand or products as they don't tag as directly but use our name to mention, so I decided to

Home Office Project: Overkill Workbench Series Part 4 Frame Completed

Home Office Project: Overkill Workbench Series Part 4 Frame Completed

Continuing from part 3, now it's time for part 4! Home Office Project: Overkill Workbench Series Part 3 Delivery of Materials and a few buildsToday is finally the day the materials were delivered to my home. Unloading was pretty quick as it was 3 (including me) unloading it

Home Office Project: Overkill Workbench Series Part 3 Delivery of Materials and a few builds

Home Office Project: Overkill Workbench Series Part 3 Delivery of Materials and a few builds

Today is finally the day the materials were delivered to my home. Unloading was pretty quick as it was 3 (including me) unloading it near the staircases to my apartment on the 4th floor. The funniest thing about all this is that my apartment on the 4th floor has no

Evening Project: A Crystal based super fast visitor counter

Evening Project: A Crystal based super fast visitor counter

I have taken this week's holidays with the plan that the Overkill Workbench materials would be delivered today, but in the end, it will be delivered on Sunday, so I have a lot of free time on my hands. Yesterday, while talking with some friends, I remembered old

Evening Project: Arduino based brake light controller for VESC based Electric Mountainboard

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Evening Project: Arduino based brake light controller for VESC based Electric Mountainboard

I had a small request from my father to help him develop a small firmware for Arduino to control brake LED light for his electric mountain board, integrating with VESC to receive remote controller UART packets. Some explanations I know some of you have not heard Arduino, VESC, Electric Mountainboard,

Home Office Projects Series: Installing Carpet Tiles

Home Office Projects Series: Installing Carpet Tiles

Finally, my carpet tiles arrived, so I spent my afternoon and evening installing them.

Home Office Project: Overkill Workbench Series Part 2: Going Shopping + HYPERLAPSE

Home Office Project: Overkill Workbench Series Part 2: Going Shopping + HYPERLAPSE

Following my yesterday introduced Overkill Workbench series articles today I follow up with part 2. Home Office Project: Overkill Workbench Series Part 1After moving into a new apartment I have already had plans in my to build acustom workbench setup for my home office room so this series will be

Home Office Project: Overkill Workbench Series Part 1

Home Office Project: Overkill Workbench Series Part 1

After moving into a new apartment I have already had plans in my to build a custom workbench setup for my home office room so this series will be oriented in the home office room and workbench design. Currently, my room looks pretty simple it's 6.5 tatamis

Integrating Intel® Power Gadget library into Go module

Integrating Intel® Power Gadget library into Go module

My first battle with GoLang and it begins with C bindings.

Home Office Projects Series: PC hardware current & future

Home Office Projects Series: PC hardware current & future

I have few articles coming up and those are mainly related to my current PC hardware and future hardware so I thought it's a good idea to reveal my current setup and planned future hardware because some of the projects are mainly oriented to the future hardware. At

Home Office Projects Series: Air conditioner setup

Home Office Projects Series: Air conditioner setup

After I have moved from a tiny tiny apartment 9m^2 in Tokyo to a big one 3LDK (2 western-style rooms, kitchen, living/dining room, and tatami room) I decided that I am going to use one of the westerner rooms as my home office/laboratory and with this idea,

Automatic SSL Certificates for internal IP's for home microk8s setup using LetsEncrypt

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Automatic SSL Certificates for internal IP's for home microk8s setup using LetsEncrypt

One of the issues I discovered while playing with microk8s Kubernetes setup locally was that many services and tools like Kubernetes Dashboard uses HTTPS for access and I don't want to use Self-Signed SSL certificates as it would require me installing these certificates in every device I use