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Book Review: 3D Printing and Maker Lab for Kids
Improving an Ikea lantern with a Cricut Joy - for Hallowe'en
Monitoring DMARC with Docker
Deploying Plex with docker and ansible
Homepage + Docker + Gitlab + Ansible
Epaper Displays and waste management
Getting hold of Raspberry PIs on the cheap with Huginn.
Automation
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Firefly iii to Paperless NGX
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🐦Home Assistant - It's for the birds! [Part 2]
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🎵 How to Install Music Assistant for Home Assistant: Your Ultimate Guide
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Home Assistant - It's for the birds! [Part 1]
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Car Automation using tasker
Self hosted
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Running Containers on a Synology DS1821+: How to Install Firefly III with Portainer
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Running Containers on a Synology DS1821+: Install Paperless-ngx with Portainer
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Running Containers on a Synology DS1821+: Getting Started with Portainer
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Zen and the art of IPv6
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Uptime Kuma and kestra - Fixing issues within minutes.
Projects
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🐦Home Assistant - It's for the birds! [Part 2]
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Home Assistant - It's for the birds! [Part 1]
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Improving an Ikea lantern with a Cricut Joy - for Hallowe'en
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FreePBX and Zen Digital Voice
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Updating docker hosts with Kestra
Home assistant
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Firefly iii to Paperless NGX
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Fallout Sign - With added Home Assistant.
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🐦Home Assistant - It's for the birds! [Part 2]
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🎵 How to Install Music Assistant for Home Assistant: Your Ultimate Guide
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Home Assistant - It's for the birds! [Part 1]
3d Printing
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Fallout Sign - With added Home Assistant.
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Automating Air filters
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Getting klipper to detect my CR-10 MAX reliably
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Klipper and the CR-10 Max
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Fixing more stuff on the cr-10 max
Security
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Why NAT isn't a security boundary
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mail to misp - Email in your threat intel
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Fixing my PPPOE configuration on PfSense
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pfSense and Tor
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Using Kestra to update my proxmox IPSet
Programming
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Firefly iii to Paperless NGX
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Fallout Sign - With added Home Assistant.
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Using ansible to deploy a gitlab runner.
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Deploying Plex with docker and ansible
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Homepage + Docker + Gitlab + Ansible
Reviews
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Book Review: 3D Printing and Maker Lab for Kids
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Filament Dryer - Sunlu S4 review.
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DSPIAE Electric model sander review
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Resin printer setup
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Troubleshooting Glow-in-the-Dark (GITD) Filament: My Real-World Experience
Raspberry PI
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FreePBX and Zen Digital Voice
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Klipper and the CR-10 Max
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Deploying vault via docker and ansible
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My Ender 5
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Getting started with automation
Ghost
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Posting to social media from ghost using Kestra
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Triggering kestra on posting to Ghost
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Fixing affliate links in Ghost
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Adding Static content to Ghost
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Fixing ghost
Electronics
Personal
Podcasts and books
About the author
Tim Wilkes is a UK-based security architect with over 15 years of experience in electronics, Linux, and Unix systems administration. Since 2021, he's been designing secure systems for a telecom company while indulging his passions for programming, automation, and 3D printing. Tim shares his projects, tinkering adventures, and tech insights here - partly as a personal log, and partly in the hopes that others will find them useful.
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