Currently… #

🚧 Working on: #

• Building tools in Python, Django and React to power conferences and the community around them.
• Freelancing for select clients on a limited basis

🏃 Running/Training Status #

• I’m currently training for a half marathon trail race that I will be doing in November 2023 with my wife.

🤖 Home Lab, Home Automation, Network and Security #

In the past year I’ve been playing around with home automation and my home lab.

• Unifi Network
• Raspberry Pi 4 Model B - 8GB running Home Assistant OS
• Raspberry Pi 4 Model B - 4GB running PiHole
• Raspberry Pi Pico W Since we do not have a smart garage door I’m considering using this to try and automate opening the garage
• Most of our lighting is Phillips Hue with the hub with the exception of Merross light strips in the gym
• A bunch of Wyze products
• Security via several Unifi cameras through Protect and a well-trained German Shepherd

📖 Reading #

There is no particular timeline or order to these books. They are just what I have read lately or currently reading.

• 👓 Coding Freedom - Coleman
• 👓 Practicing - A musician’s return to music - Glenn Kurtz
• 👓 Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande
• ✅ The War of Art (Reread) - Steven Pressfield
• ✅ What I talk about when I talk about running - Haruki Murakami
• ✅ Ego is the Enemy - Ryan Holiday
• ✅ Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkeman
• ✅ Work Clean - Dan Charnas
• ✅ How to Take Smart Notes - Sonke Ahrens