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

I'm happy to receive questions and comments. Feel free to drop me email, and you can use this key to encrypt it, if you'd like.

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

Why I Self Host

I have been running my own servers, on and off since college. Here's some of my takes, and why it's always been worth the hassle, at least for me.

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Self Hosted Postgres in Kubernetes with PITR Recovery

Using CloudNativePG and Barman Cloud to get Point-in-Time Recovery for Postgres DB's running in Kubernetes.

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Setting up the DX Commander Expedition Antenna

Setting up and tuning the DX Commander Expedition Antenna.

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Decoding Meshtastic Channel Links

Looking at the information is stored in a Meshtastic channel URL, and decoding it.

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