Cycling, Coding, and LEGO

  • pi-hole in a Container

    Man, what a struggle! I’ve been running close to the datacap for most of the year and figured, if I block the ads, and particularly the video ads, I gotta same some data. You can see how I’ve slowly been building out my containerized workload; this should be a snap! I found a ton of…

  • Password Generator

    I was playing with this a year ago when I started a new job. The boss said to use two words, a number, and a symbol- this would make a easy to remember password for users, including us! With that in mind, I grabbed a list of 4 and 5 letter words. Put them in…

  • Spaceport #2

    Once again, I had the small, yellow ship laying around. It was from 9 years ago and uses some interesting parts. Once I upgraded the stand for another little ship, I thought I should make something for this one too. I had tried this before, using the Technic #3 angle connector with a girder, this…

  • PowerShell Regex Matching

    I was working on a project where I needed to understand the naming convention for the servers. Since they had been made by several teams over several years, there was no convention. It was a giant pain in the ass. I wrote a function that would accept the server name and then try to parse…

  • Transport Truck

    With a Firetruck, and a Fast Car, I wasn’t quite done with the floating vehicle idea. I wanted to try again, a different way, to get the wheel-arch on top and bottom. Once I had a chassis, it seemed like a box van was the way to finish it off. A small cab and a…