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Hosting Wildcard Subdomains from Home for Free

Software Home Lab Infrastructure Web Development

Despite an overflowing number of options for hosting your own blog or website these days, I still feel like the best bang for your buck is GitHub Pages (if you’re a developer, that is). It’s free and does SSL and you can set it up to work with a custom domain name, something that’s a “premiere” option requiring paid service at most other blogging/website platforms.

Inside a home network rack, a UniFi switch with ethernet cables patched into a punch-down panel above a Dell rackmount server.
  • 11 Jan 2021

Switching Your Home Network to UniFi

Software Home Lab Infrastructure DIY

I recently switched over my home network to all UniFi based gear, and I’ve had several co-workers and friends ask about it, there’s a bit of a learning curve to figure out what exactly you actually need to get a network put together with UniFi, so I figured I’d write up my thoughts in the form of a blog post so I can refer folks to it in the future.

A product photo of three white UniFi rackmount network switches stacked together, patch cables fanning out of their ports and a small throughput display lit on each front panel.
  • 08 Aug 2020

Paper Mario Party - Build Your Own Mario Party Style Board Game

Games Nintendo DIY

I bought Super Mario Party for the Nintendo Switch for my kids as an Easter present (although, honestly, it was more of a “something to do during the Covid-19 safer-at-home order” present), and it’s been a big hit.

A hand-drawn board game on butcher paper titled 'Paper Mario Party', with a grid of Item and Chance spaces, hand-cut decks of cards, paper coins and stars, and cutout Mario and Luigi heads as player tokens.
  • 26 May 2020
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