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Exterminate your desk: How to remove your mouse

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A few notes on how I finally got rid of my mouse. The why Like many people, I spend the majority of my day working on a computer. I have taken several steps over the years in order to minimize the risk of things like carpal tunnel and RSI. First I learned DVORAK to make typing more natural, I’m a huge fan of it, and being forced to use QWERTY again is never a fun experience.

HomelabOS v0.7 - 50+ new services! Release notes and installation video

Mon, 18 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Today we released v0.7 of HomelabOS! HomelabOS is an effort to make it as easy as possible for anyone to host their own cloud-style services, either at home, or on a server they control in the cloud. The goal is to provide a few simple commands to the user, and handle setting everything up for them as easily as possible. Since the last release we have added over 50 more services, for over 100 services total!

Connecting a Grandstream HT80X (HT801 or HT802) to Twilio

Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I recently had to connect a Grandstream HT802. It’s a small device that can give you an analog phone port when all you have available is ethernet ports which are connected to the internet. It is certainly not plug and play, and is clearly intended for use in a more enterprise setting. It’s what we had, and we needed it to work, so I got busy researching how to do it.

Introducing tckr.html - A simple calculator strip. Like ticker tape, with variables.

Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been wanting a tool lately where it functions kind of like a blank text document, but when you type some math it actually evaluates the formula for you, letting you save the output for use in further equations. So, last night I built it over the course of maybe two hours. It’s simple. It does what it says on the box. It’s portable (just one .html file). It’s easy.

HomelabOS v0.6 - Release Notes and Installation Video

Fri, 31 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday I released v0.6 of HomelabOS. HomelabOS is an effort to make it as easy as possible for anyone to host their own cloud-style services, either at home, or on a server they control in the cloud. The goal is to provide a few simple commands to the user, and handle setting everything up for them as easily as possible. It includes over 50 services that can be easily enabled, deployed, and backed up.

Live on Twitch

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

I have recently begun streaming my open source work on Twitch.tv

It’s been fun so far getting to interact with the viewers via the chatroom, and nice to have scheduled, dedicated time to work on my various projects. It’s much harder to just open a new tab and start browsing HN when you have people watching you.

tor_ssh.sh - One command to enable SSH access via Tor to any Ubuntu server.

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

At Grownetics we install onsite servers at our clients’ facilities so they can continue to use the system, even if their internet goes out. These servers have fail over connections, and may change connection at any time, and due to the onsite nature of things, we may not be able to have ports forwarded or expect there to be a static IP. In these cases a VPN is a nice thing to have, and we use Tinc for this.

Simplest Journal Solution

Tue, 29 Jan 2019 20:59:17 -0700

This is my simple journal solution. Put the code belowe in your ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc Type a j from a terminal, type some notes, save and exit. The script creates a file in the format of ~/journal/2019/01-29.md and automatically pushes it to git. EDITOR=vim journal() { mkdir -p ~/journal/`date +%Y` $EDITOR ~/journal/`date +%Y`/`date +%m-%d.md` (cd ~/journal/; git pull; git add *; git commit -a -m "Update `date +%Y-%m-%d`"; git push) } alias j=journal Easy, simple, effective.

Sniffing one's own farts: Moving from GitHub to Gitlab

Tue, 04 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

I recently announced a new side project of mine, HomelabOS on Reddit.

There was a lot of great feedback, and then there was the hilarious comment in the screenshot.

oh god...one of those people that moved to gitlab to 'send a message'.

OP sounds like the kind of person that sniffs their own farts

While I do enjoy the occassional whiff of gourmet flatulence, I thought I would address my actual motivations behind moving my projects from GitHub to GitLab.

Slither Bots - How I built a series of JavaScript snippets to play Slither.io for you

Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:54:13 -0600

Slither Bots is a series of scripts I created that automate playing the web-based game Slither.io in increasingly complicated ways.

Slither.io is a multiplayer version of the classic Worm game. You hit other snakes, you lose, they hit you, they lose. Once a worm dies, it drops a bunch of food that can be slurped up by the survivors (or anyone else) and can double or triple a player’s size in a second or two.

I started very simply, and added layers of complexity one after another, saving them each as a separate generation.

Papyrto - A simple paper based strategy game based on Quarto

Sun, 12 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

8 months or so ago I designed a paper adaptation of the board game, Quarto. I call it Papyrto. Papyrus (Paper) + Quarto = Papyrto. Invented by Swiss mathematician Blaise Müller in 1991, Quarto is a simple game with interesting rules. There are 16 game pieces, each with 4 distinct attributes; tall or short, light or dark, round or square, and solid or hollow. So my design had to have a similar set of ‘pieces’ with a different set of 4 distinct attributes.

Isaac Asimov the End of Eternity

Wed, 25 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Isaac Asimov’s “The End of Eternity” is an interesting exploration of the paradoxes of time travel, and what it might look like if there was a secret organization interfering with events throughout human history in order to acheive more ‘desirable’ outcomes. This book is a classic, as evidenced by the sheer number of amazing retro covers I found with a quick image search. Many of the classic time travel paradoxes arise like meeting yourself in the past, but due to the nature of the seemingly benevolent organization known as ‘Eternity’ there are some perhaps less thought of ideas.

Introducing HomelabOS - Ansible scripts to deploy privacy centric personal servers

Tue, 17 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been working on a new Open Source project lately called HomelabOS that aims to make it easy to set up a home server to be a nearly complete cloud services replacement. I call it ‘Your very own offline-first privacy-centric open-source data-center!’ The goal is to make it easy for anyone to own all their data in an easy and secure way, without the need of cloud providers. It has a simple one-command setup (make) that uses Ansible to configure and deploy dozens of services for you in Docker containers to a server in your home network.

Installing and configuring network wide adblock with Pi-hole and the Turris Omnia.

Sun, 04 Dec 2016 22:12:21 -0600

NOTICE: This article is outdated. Using LXC containers on the native flash memory will wear it down quickly. Look into HomelabOS for your piHole needs.

My new Turris Omnia arrived on Saturday morning, and it took me almost a full day to get Pi-hole setup and configured, so I thought I’d save someone else the time.

About Nick

Wed, 02 Jul 1986 00:00:00 +0000

Who My name is Nick Busey. What I am the CTO and co-founder of Grownetics. I contribute to several open source projects which I work on regularly on my Twitch stream, and post tutorials about to my YouTube channel. I am available for consulting. Find my contact info below. I also make and DJ music, ride BMX bikes and motorcycles, snowboard, skateboard, wakeboard, and other such tomfoolery. Where Boulder, CO

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