My grandfather had about 10,000 35mm slides. I rented a SlideSnap X1 and spent a weekend feeding them through — 33 boxes worth, organized into folders by box. The scanner itself was great, but when you’re pushing through thousands of slides in a weekend, some inevitably go in upside down or backwards. No metadata, no EXIF orientation flags — just thousands of JPEGs, some right-side up, some not, sitting on a NAS.
CMS recently published provider-level Medicaid spending data from T-MSIS — every fee-for-service, managed care, and CHIP claim from 2018 through 2024, aggregated by billing provider, procedure code, and month. 227 million rows. $1.09 trillion in payments. I wanted to see what falls out when you run some basic fraud heuristics against it.
My Home Assistant dashboard has evolved significantly over the past year. What started as the default auto-generated cards has become a carefully organized interface that my whole family actually uses. Here’s how I built it, with a focus on the whole home audio system that ties everything together.
I run a fully self-hosted CI/CD pipeline using Drone for builds, Gitea for git hosting, and Harbor for container registry. No GitHub Actions, no Docker Hub, no external dependencies. Here’s how it all fits together.
I have six Honeywell T6 Pro Z-Wave thermostats throughout my house controlling a multi-zone HVAC system. Out of the box, these thermostats have their own scheduling and “smart” features that conflict with Home Assistant automations. Here’s how I configured them to let HA take full control.
I manage two Kubernetes environments - a home cluster (bowerhaus) and a cloud cluster (rustycloud) - using GitOps with Kustomize and ArgoCD. After running this setup for a while, I’ve learned what works, what doesn’t, and some non-obvious gotchas.
For years I used Keel to automatically update container images in my Kubernetes clusters. It worked, but as I moved to GitOps with ArgoCD, Keel’s push-based approach became a liability. I migrated to Renovate for PR-based image updates, and it’s been a significant improvement.
One of the challenges of running a homelab with dozens of services is keeping track of what’s running and where. I recently deployed Homepage - a modern, fully static dashboard that automatically discovers services from Kubernetes ingresses.
Managing DNS records for a homelab with dozens of services is tedious. Every time you deploy something new, you have to remember to add a DNS record. I solved this by using external-dns to automatically create Pi-hole DNS entries from Kubernetes ingress resources.