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Tim Wilkes

Homepage + Docker + Gitlab + Ansible

I was watching TechnoTim recently with his video about homepage. Homepage is a dashboard for all your home lab links. If you have used heimdall before, it is similar, but all the configuration is in yaml.

Happy New Year!

Welcome back to my blog after the new year. I

Books of 2023

Over the course of 2023, I sat down to read

Christmas posting

Due to the Christmas hols and work, my posting will

FaaS and Gitlab

I have been messing around with Gitlab and FaaS for

Troubleshooting Rainbow Silk PLA: Tips & Lessons Learned

Rainbow silk PLA looks stunning but comes with quirks - stringing, tangles, and poor adhesion. Here’s what I learned while troubleshooting this filament and how to fix common issues to unlock vibrant, reliable 3D prints.

Gitlab pipelines

As a later post will show, I've been using gitlab pipelines to validate some of my code for me. As a security conscious person, I've been interested in building security in to pipelines.

eMotion and Modbus

As I write this, Paul Hibbert released this video on youtube 3 days ago. The video features a very smart sensor doing presence detection. The company linknlink were new to me and following the recommendation from Paul, I bought a couple of eMotion sensors.

Adding Static content to Ghost

Looking to add static content to your ghost site? Well, look no further.

M5stack Echo with a hex light

With all my playing around with home assistant, I've bought myself a M5stack Echo. The echo is the variant of choice for home assistant's "Year of the voice". The other day, I did come across a 37 led array in the shape of a hexagon on Aliexpress.