Does anyone need 1Gb ethernet switches or PoE injectors?

I will send some to you for literally just the cost of shipping.

✍🏻 Updated instructions for installing my Debian package repositories

https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2025/06/updated-instructions-for-installing-my-debian-package-repositories/

Always fun to see what ideas I had a year ago but have done nothing with since then 😆

*grumbles* I'm going to have to accept that it makes significantly more financial sense to just buy some 2.5G switches and see if they negotiate at 2.5G than buy an actual cable tester, huh

okie, MVP public bookmarks/linkblog Mastodon feed is up and running: @bookmarks

this joins @pictures as another new member of the cdzombak rss/mastodon cinematic universe

✍🏻 Host Inventory for a (not-) Homelab

https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2025/05/host-inventory-for-a-not-homelab/

midway through a large NAS disk array upgrade, I can confirm: ZFS is very neat and useful 👍🏻

rsync, after >24 hours: “this is 99% done and is either gonna take 5 minutes or 28 hours to complete.”

(I understand why, but still 😆)

It’s worth noting, too, that one improvement I want to make is posting the actual image files to Mastodon, for a first-class viewing experience in your client of choice. I just need to do some dev work to make that possible.

ooookay! Still very much a work in progress, but @pictures is a feed of recent posts from my photos website. My idea here is that, just like an Instagram account, I can gather reactions and reply to comments on that account.

And of course, this is all powered by RSS. More to come!!

@noleli @drlucyrogers other possibly relevant stuff from my bookmarks: https://dashboard.birdcast.info/ , https://explorer.audubon.org/

@noleli @drlucyrogers actual primary radar? Unfortunately I don’t think it’s legal or inexpensive to run one yourself. However birds can show up on NWS weather radar and on airport TDWRs. Otherwise something like https://www.birdweather.com/birdnetpi (collected data at https://app.birdweather.com/data )

✍🏻 Tips on Brazing Copper and Stainless Steel

https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2025/05/tips-on-brazing-copper-and-stainless-steel/

Growing native pine trees from seed is going very well. I have probably over 100 seedlings at this point.

All sorts of good birds this morning!

✍🏻 Someone please Photoshop a “Phantom of the Opera” mask onto this grackle for me

https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2025/05/someone-please-photoshop-a-phantom-of-the-opera-mask-onto-this-grackle-for-me/

✍🏻 RIP: Aircraft Radar Skill for Amazon Alexa

https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2025/04/rip-aircraft-radar-skill-for-amazon-alexa/

Any #annarbor hams available in the next few hours to let me know how they hear my radio, ahead of the weather this afternoon?

“Your outie knows the difference between a Red-Headed and Red-Bellied Woodpecker.”