They said it couldn’t be done. They said it’s not even worth trying. Yet, here we are.

And now for something completely different: I tried a bunch of different kinds of cat litter so maybe you won’t have to

Wake-on-LAN is easy but sleep-on-LAN is not

Adding WiFi to a 15-year-old LCD projector using infrared instead

Using serial (of course) to add WiFi to a 15-year-old LCD projector

A simple Python script to make juggling worlds and backups easier

Stressing out my MQTT server with an RGB light bulb

Integrating devices with custom firmware into cloud ecosystems

Converting cheap IoT hardware to be less invasive

Backstory: Since I first started running my own servers several years ago, I’ve always used NGINX as my web and proxy server. I started on a lower-end VPS and needed the spare resources it offered me over the default Apache installation, so I went through the effort of learning how to configure it from a coworker, moving all of the settings from scattered .htaccess files to a set of site configuration files.