ADRIAN’S BLOG
Ramblings of an IT geek
Rocket
This blog was drafted back in April after I'd bought a home rocket kit from Model Rockets. Due to the COVIC-19 pandemic, it had been sat in my office (prepped and ready to launch) until last weekend! In the meantime, SpaceX launched a manned rocket into space which...
For Sale
For Sale
Arduino + Wi-Fi
I've enjoyed playing around with my Arduino's (which I'd blogged about here) and was up-to-date with the Youtube series I'd been watching, so started looking for something new to try. Controlling things via Wi-Fi would be useful for lots of things, so I decided to buy...
Portable Monitor
I've been busy! This is the other 'lost blog' which is about a portable monitor I never even realised I needed, but now I've got one I'm surprised how I managed without! You might be surprised that the seeds of this idea didn't come from Youtube but from some...
Supercharged Firestick
This was one of the 'lost blogs' I wrote about here, so I'm not quite as motivated the second time! The idea was born from a Youtube video, and it got me thinking I might start using a supercharged Firestick more and my Apple TV 4 less, although only time will tell....
Lost Blogs
I'd drafted 2 blogs yesterday - one about a portable monitor and another about Firesticks. This morning I decided to be brave and update WordPress to 5.5 (I'd tested two other sites yesterday which both worked perfectly) but it failed and I've lost (the) blogs. To be...
More tenting
So after our camping adventures in the garden, which I blogged about here, we decided to step things up a little and take some baby steps to become more regular campers with some more tenting escapades! My daughter enjoyed all of the garden tenting and was keen to get...
Inflatable Kayak
We'd seen a similar inflatable kayak for sale at Lidl last week, but when we popped into the Bo'ness store to pick one up they'd sold. Someone told us Aldi were selling a very similar inflatable kayak on Sunday, so we popped into the Linlithgow store early on the way...
MacBook Decision
The new MacBook Air decision was pretty much made before the i3 and i5 arrived, with the i3 not leaving the box! I'm loving the upgrade from the 2016 MacBook, but here are some of the reasons why. Magic Keyboard I think my frustration at the old Butterfly Keyboard...
Update Week
Well, it seems like I've updated lots of things this week, so why not call it Update Week? A pretty successful one at that! FreeNAS 11.3-U4 I'm usually very conservative when it comes to updating my FreeNAS servers, but there was a replication bug that I had reported...
New MacBook Air
MacBook Air 2020 Ok, so I've bought a new MacBook Air, but I'm sure the big question you're asking is what's going to happen to 2016 MacBook, the 2013 MacBook Air and most importantly the 2010 MacBook Air I used at the very start of this blogging journey? I started my...
Arduino
I picked up my first Arduino as somewhat of an impulse purchase to avoid extortionate delivery costs when I was buying the Devastator Robot Platform which I blogged about here. I thought I might be able to use the Arduino to control the robot but ended up using a...
Camping (in the garden!)
Our Easter trip to Philadelphia and Mexico was cancelled due to COVID-19 and our summer holiday plans to France are in doubt, but after our Camping adventures in the back garden, we might be trying to find somewhere in Scotland we can get away for a few nights. Not...
Jnr Trak (aka Devastator Tank Mobile Robot Platform)
I can't remember where the seed of this project was found, but when it was planted in my 7-year-old daughter's mind it took root and grew over a number of our daily dog walks. Given we're now in lockdown and are always looking for interesting and creative things to do...
Airsonic
This is another one of those things I really don't need, but now I've found it and set it up I think it's pretty cool and have been trying to find a more permanent use for it! Airsonic is a free, web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music,...
NGINX Proxy Manager
Using NGINX as a reverse proxy, with Letsenctypt to generate SSL certificates and secure access to my externally exposed services, was a real game-changer for me, automating something that in the past has been a real challenge. NGINX Proxy Manager simplifies things...
Updating Bitwarden
I blogged about my switch from using 1Password to a self-hosted version of Bitwarden here, and its been running perfectly ever since. That said, I had tried updating Bitwarden a couple of times, all of which have failed and I'd ended up rolling back a snapshot. I...
More Pi (1B, Zero W, 3A+ and another 4B)
I blogged about my Raspberry Pi 4 here and here and was quite excited to see what I could try and do with it next. I've been doing a little more 'Pi playing' and have now amassed a small Pi family. I already had a 1st generation Pi 1B in the garage, so dug that out,...
APE Wiki
I had a few spare hours yesterday and had been meaning to try and recreate the MediaWiki docker container inside a FreeNAS jail. A few gotchas were found but they were resolved pretty quickly, and I now have my own APE Wiki! It's really just another FAMP...
FreeNAS0 – Finishing Touches & 11.3
The journey that started back here when I seriously started looking at components for FreeNAS0 almost seems complete so I thought I'd blog about some finishing touches and my upgrade to 11.3. I'll start with the upgrade, which I guess I'd been putting off for a couple...
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