The intent of this is to give a single walk through on setting up, installing and using pass (password store) on my Mac (macOS) along with Github to maintain sensitive information within my day-...
I have found that I use phpMyAdmin more than I want to admit to anyone for MySQL, MariaDB or AWS Aurora development iteration. The team working on phpMyAdmin does such a great job with the tool...
Challenge Summary: I work from two different physical locations. Both locations have traditional retail Internet service providers (ISPs). What makes traveling between two locations tricky is acces...
Whole House Audio is a really expensive endeavor to start out on. I was shocked how much the “retail” systems cost and had no interest in spending that kind of money while releasing a lot of “cont...
When I was designing my Whole House Audio Solution I had three locations in my house where I wanted four speakers and the idea of having stereo sound was not important because of the location. I w...
A simple walk-through for creating a static blog website using Jekyll, a Liquid Theme, hosted on Github pages, using Markdown and Docker for local hosting. Background Personal Anecdote In 200...
Using Home Assistant with a DSC alarm is great because the components for the DSC are generally inexpensive and the access to the sensor status is dependable and simplistic. Connecting the DSC to ...
I have a DSC alarm at my house (a PC1832) and I want to use Home Assistant to work with it. I purchased the IT-100 board and then decided I wanted to expand it a bit further to include more zones....
Taking a screenshot on the Mac with a perfect shadow is fast and built in. I take a fair amount of screen shots with terminal windows and web browsers and have found the built in screen grab to b...
You can extract all of the variables in use from a Smarty template using a simple call to *nix grep with a trivial regex expression. Here is the command- grep -o "\{\$[-_a-zA-Z0-9]*\}" my-template...