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    Continuing to renovate the 1940s house I bought in March. I took it down to the brick shell and I’m slowly building it back up each weekend.

    I think I’ve had one weekend spare since then where I’ve not been doing DIY. But physical and mental work dovetail quite nicely. On the weekend my brain rests, in the week my body rests.

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      Sounds like you’re living my dream! Are you going to be adding some of those much needed geeky accessories like Cat6e throughout and full house automation?

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        Given the reality of things I think the really geeky thing is not to use “home automation”.

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          Only if you’re not engineering it yourself ;) I’m just as wary of third party IOT/“home automation” as the next paranoid engineer with experience in these things but the idea of developing a super-secure, self hosted set up makes me tingle with excitement.

          For context, having an air gaped office network located within a Faraday cage is my ideal office solution.

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            I think your office was featured in this scene of a movie at least one American in Russia thinks was historically accurate despite talking about future events. ;)

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            Yeah. We’re supposed to be the smart rebels to dangerous trends in tech.

            Alternatively, we’d do it on a super-secure setup limited to things that can’t be used to spy on you or burn your house down. No Internet connected ovens, dryers, coffee makers, or toasters for example. The threat model still allows one to have a local network and computer controlling the rest, though. High-assurance VPN’s are useful in this scenario, too, if one wants the remote functionality with minimal risk. Mikro-SINA is a good example of such architectures.

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        • Miniflux (RSS)
        • Jira (Kanban style project management (side projects, house renovation, etc.))
        • Gitea (Git)
        • Drone (CI)
        • NetData (System monitoring)
        • OpenVPN
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          Jira, as in Atlassian’s?

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            Yeah, you can buy a license for $10 and self-host it. it’s a bit of a memory hog running on the JVM though. Unfortunately the alternatives I tried didn’t quite fit my use-case for house renovation project management.

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          Work

          Adding yet another CSV import feature to our monolithic php app

          Personal

          Learning Go (migrating above monolithic app into Go microservices over the next 12-24 months) by making a simplistic Kanban board/Trello clone to replace my Kanboard setup at the moment.