Posts on ramble.moe

Dinner Plans, or Kitchen Uses for AI

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:13:12 -0500

I swear the blog isn’t dead. Really, I swear. I just don’t update it enough. So here, have an update.

My partner and I have a constant problem: we both enjoy cooking and making food, but we’re both incredibly bad at figuring out what we want to eat for dinner. Or making mundane decisions like that at all, really. We’ll pass the decision off onto each other for sometimes an hour (obviously talking about other stuff in the meantime) without ever actually deciding on something. Neither of us want to step on the other’s toes.

Moving Away From OPNsense - A Story of Simplicity

Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:25:15 -0500

This is a story from the past. A story of excitement, joy, frustration, denial, and acceptance. A story pulled from the depths of my notes archive, a draft left unfinished almost two years ago, discovered through my journey in notetaking. This is a true story, slightly skewed by time.

The story ends about two years ago, and begins far before that. It informed my decisions about my thoughts around my homelab, my hobbies, my time, and myself. It is not a deep story, and indeed it is technical in nature, but the conclusions have ripple effects which reached my entire homelab and beyond. The morale of this story resonates deeply with me, and while I have always believed what this story has taught me, it gives a new appreciation to the way I choose to run my home network.

Obsidian and Notion - A Journey in Notetaking

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:23:28 -0500

Have you ever thought you made the right decision, based on what seemingly everyone around you is saying, but then realized seemingly everyone is wrong? Or maybe not wrong necessarily, but…incomplete? That is my experience with Obsidian so far, and why I’m currently straddling the line between it and Notion.

If you’ll indulge me for a little while, I’m going to opine a bit about what I’m trying to do, my experience with both Obsidian and Notion, and why they’re both, quite frankly, terrible. I know, I know, before the PKMS and open source zealots raise their pitchforks and come to attack me (there’s a reason this blog is semi-anonymous right now), give me a chance to explain.

Homelab Migration - Part One

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:17:12 -0500

So it’s been a little while. A few things have happened–I’ve moved across the country to a new apartment, and just bought a house so I’ll be moving again soon. Those are posts for another time, and maybe we’ll be getting exciting home-related posts soon! For now, let’s get back to the homelab migration. I set up a new server and began the process of migrating before it got boxed up in the move, so let’s chat about that, shall we?

Homelab Migration - Part Zero

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 20:10:00 -0700

My homelab is 10 years old. Almost. Well, that’s not true. I’ve had a homelab for much longer. My current server is nearly 10 years old, or at least one of them is.

Whatever, the point is that it’s time for me to migrate my homelab onto more modern hardware, and with M4 Macs coming down the pipe soon, I thought it might be a good time to start to consider what I have and where I’m going.

MyQ Home Bridge

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 17:13:27 -0500

A bit of a different post today. Here are instructions for setting up the MyQ Home Bridge (either model) without the use of the MyQ app. You wouldn’t know it searching online or by the included instructions, but it is possible to set one of these up without a MyQ Account or the use of the app. Hopefully this will be useful to someone in the future.

These are not instructions for using MyQ with Homebridge, and if you’re going that route I would just recommend using something from a company more reputable than Chamberlain, like Meross, anyway.

Designing an Online Disccusion Board—A Thought Experiment

Fri, 18 Aug 2023 00:20:00 -0700

I’m a slow writer when it comes to this blog, and I’ve been working on it little by little since the last post. I promised in the last post I would share how I would design an online discussion board (or link aggregator) service. A lot of things have changed since it’s been so long. I could go through and tweak some things, but I feel like leaving them gives a bit of character to the post and more accurately represents its place in time. With my excuses out of the way, here’s my design.

Thoughts on Reddit, Lemmy, and RSS

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 20:37:10 -0800

I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but Reddit is imploding right now.

I originally considered writing this as the first of a three-part series, but instead I think I’ll make it two. In this installment, I’ll briefly discuss what my thoughts on Reddit and their current direction are and follow that up with my own plans for my future online. Spoilers: I think that’s Lemmy for me, but there are other potential options too. Lemmy hasn’t been smooth sailing for me so far.

New Blog and Mastodon

Sun, 20 Nov 2022 22:34:27 -0500

Well. Hello everyone.

So with all the nonsense happening on Twitter lately, I decided I’d give Mastodon a shot, like hundreds of thousands of others it seems. Except, even though I have a Twitter account, I hardly ever use it. I never really got into it.

Really, I just don’t do social media in general. I had a Facebook account too, used it for a while, but then gradually just…stopped. I had an unused MySpace back when that was a thing. Google+, too. Really, if you can think of a major social network, I’ve probably had an account there, but it never got used much. Perhaps the algorithms were to blame, I don’t know.