Hi, I'm Caius, and this is my side-projects blog. I mostly write about self-hosting, amateur radio, astrophotography, and whatever else interests me at the time.

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By day, I'm a software engineer. You can find more about that here.

Setting up the M5Stack Cardputer ADV with Launcher and Meshtastic

A short tutorial on setting up the M5 Stack Cardputer with Launcher and Meshtastic.

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Installing Coder in Kubernetes with Devcontainer Support

Installing and Configuring Coder in Kubernetes with devcontainer support. Customizing the templates to make the setup pain free and consistent with the native devcontainer experience.

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Making a Digital Clock; An Attempt at Integrating Hardware, Software and 3D Printing

Designing and building a 3D printed digital clock using off the shelf components.

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Backing up Persistent Volume Claims with k8up

Setting up k8up to periodically back up my Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs) in my Kubernetes cluster.

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Setting up a Homelab: Step 1

I am building a new cluster out of second hand-mini-PCs, and I am looking to streamline and simplify the setup as much as possible. Here, I'm exploring at how to get an OS set up, without having to do a manual install on each machine, using Ansible and Cloud-Init

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