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2020

Dec 20 Laser Cutters vs. CNC Routers vs. 3D Printers
Nov 24 I am the New Co-Host of The Create/Invent Podcast
Nov 19 My FPV Freestyle Miniquad Builds for 2021
Nov 6 I Bought a Sony ZV-1 Vlogging Camera
Oct 22 Gotway Tesla V2 Electric Unicycle: The First 500 Miles
Oct 14 Tailscale on My GL.iNet Mango OpenWrt Router
Oct 12 Bell Super 3R MIPS: Do You Really Need a $200 Helmet?
Sep 28 Making My Life Easier With Tailscale
Sep 23 Can You Believe I Am Working On The Kestrel Again?
Aug 26 So You Want To Get Started Flying FPV Drones: 2020 Edition
Aug 20 How Fast Can I 3D-Print With My Prusa MK3S?
Aug 5 Eight Hours With My New Prusa MK3S 3D Printer
Jul 31 Four-Inch Miniquads Might Be Awesome Now!
Jul 26 Thoughts On The Xiaomi Fimi Palm 3-Axis Gimbal
Jul 17 Gotway Tesla V2 Range Test
Jun 7 Why am I Not Manufacturing and Selling Kestrel FPV Miniquad Frames
May 23 I'm Ordering a New Prusa 3D Printer!
May 18 Should You Buy a OneWheel or an Electric Unicycle?
May 6 Our OoberLights Prototype Boards are Lighting Up!
May 5 Have I Outgrown My InMotion V5F Electric Unicycle?
Apr 1 I Was a Guest On The Create/Invent Podcast Again!
Mar 30 I Wish Windows 10 Worked Better on Tablets
Mar 22 Upgrade Your Nintendo Switch Joy-Con with a D-pad
Mar 20 Five Weeks with My InMotion V5F Electric Unicycle
Feb 29 I Finally Bought a Nintendo Switch
Feb 18 Two Weeks with My InMotion V5F Electric Unicycle
Feb 5 I Bought an Electric Unicycle: I Have No Idea What I'm Doing
Jan 31 What Should You Bring When You Go Flying FPV Miniquads?
Jan 9 What I Learned From Just Two Attempts at Cinewhooping
Jan 2 ReelSteady Go Works on Linux with Wine

2019

Dec 12 Prepping My 3-Inch Freestyle Kestrel for Long-Range Flights
Dec 3 We Are About to Order OoberLights Prototypes!
Dec 2 I'm Getting Excited About 4-Inch Quads Again
Nov 19 I Added a Baratza Encore to Our Kitchen
Oct 22 Thoughts on the DJI Digital FPV System
Oct 16 Betaflight 4.1 and the RPM Filter
Oct 5 What I've Learned About 4-Inch Miniquads
Oct 3 Slow USB Flash Drives Are All Right As Long As They Are Cheap
Sep 30 I Competed In My First Drone Race!
Sep 23 Spending an Afternoon Flying with Alex Vanover
Sep 16 My Thoughts on Open-Source Hardware
Sep 10 What Happens When Brian and I Start Another Blog?
Sep 8 Designing My Carbon Fiber Prop Tool
Sep 1 Backing Up My Bitwarden Database
Aug 20 One Month with Bitwarden
Aug 12 EMAX TinyHawk Freestyle: An Awesome Upgrade Path For Beginners?
Aug 9 Open-Source Falcon Miniquad Frame: Road to Version 1.0
Jul 31 Are Inexpensive Mechanical Keyboards Worth It?
Jul 26 My Open-Source FPV Freestyle Miniquad Frame: The Falcon
Jul 18 I'm Managing My Passwords with Bitwarden now!
Jul 9 My First Attempt to CNC Aluminum on My Shapeoko XXL
Jun 23 Designing a 3-Inch HD Micro FPV Quadcopter Frame
Jun 19 Three Months With The Osmo Pocket: The Perfect Vlogging Camera?
Jun 6 Roasting Coffee Beans at Home: One Month Later
May 29 My Rancilio Silvia and Baratza Preciso: Five Years Later
May 20 The DJI Osmo Action
May 18 RAID Configuration on My Home Virtual Machine Server
May 11 We Are Working On an Open Source LED Board
May 7 I Roasted Coffee and I am Drinking My First Cup!
May 4 I am Going To Roast Some Coffee Beans!
Apr 24 The Betaflight Settings I Paste Into All My FPV Drones
Apr 23 One Month with an HD Micro FPV Freestyle Quad
Apr 22 So Long Helio Spring, Hello iFlight SucceX F7 TwinG!
Apr 17 You Should Use a VPN to Protect Your Privacy
Apr 14 The EMAX TinyHawk is Fun, Inexpensive, and Awesome!
Apr 9 My 4-Inch Kestrel - Can I Keep It Under 250 Grams?
Apr 6 Expensive FPV Gear Doesn't Always Boost Your Confidence
Apr 1 Building a NAS: Buy Lots of Drives or Just What You Need?
Mar 26 Can You Run A NAS In A Virtual Machine?
Mar 21 The Kestrel HD Micro Quad Frame Version 1.0
Mar 14 My First Week With The DJI Osmo Pocket
Mar 10 Caddx Turtle or Runcam Split vs a GoPro on FPV Freestyle Quads
Mar 4 Attempting to Make a Calcium-Free Latte
Feb 26 Cutting Carbon Fiber Sheets on My Shapeoko CNC
Feb 22 The Kestrel FPV HD Micro Drone: The Road to the Second Prototype
Feb 15 My First Shapeoko CNC Adventure: Cutting Carbon Fiber
Feb 7 My Shapeoko CNC Journey vs. 3D-Printing: CNC Software is Awful!
Feb 5 Moon Lence Ultralight Folding Chair
Jan 31 I am Designing a Freestyle HD Micro Quad Frame!
Jan 29 I Bought a CNC Machine: I Have No Idea What I'm Doing
Jan 15 Why I fly FPV Quadcopters, and You Should, Too!

2018

Dec 30 Updating My 2018 FPV Freestyle Quadcopters for 2019
Dec 9 Hover-1 XLS Folding Electric Scooter Brake Upgrade
Nov 25 Six Months With My Ryze Tello Photography Drone
Oct 8 Why Did I Buy an Electric Bike? The Hover-1 XLS Folding Scooter
Sep 21 Full Speed Leader 3 Micro FPV Racing Drone
Aug 12 Adding Another Disk to the RAID 10 on My KVM Server
Jun 6 Six-Inch Hyperlite Flowride Quad
May 30 Eachine QX65 - Tons of Fun and a Great Value
May 28 My FPV Quadcopter Field Charging Setup
May 20 I am Disappointed in Frontier Communications
May 4 My Leader 120 Micro FPV Quad - Four Months Later
Mar 28 Eachine Q90C Flyingfrog - Your Gateway to FPV
Mar 23 My Favorite Lens - The Tamron F/2.8 28-75mm
Mar 22 Failing to Extend the RAID 10 on My KVM Server
Mar 21 IP Over InfiniBand and KVM Virtual Machines
Mar 20 Ditching My 4S LiPos for 5S
Mar 19 Outsourcing My Self-Hosted Cloud Storage
Mar 18 Baratza Preciso Grind Consistency Issue
Feb 27 My FPV Quad Builds for 2018
Feb 14 Should I Build A 6S-Capable Racing Quad?
Feb 12 Leader 120 Micro FPV Quad: Amazing Performance on a Budget
Feb 2 My Resignation from The Board of Directors at TheLab.ms
Jan 25 Giving the Gift of an FPV Quadcopter
Jan 8 ThinkTank FPV Airport Helipak - Should You Spend $200 on a Drone Backpack?

2017

Dec 4 The BFight 210 is Awesome and the Demise of My Shuriken X1
Nov 28 Tips For First Time FPV Quadcopter Pilots
Nov 1 I Switched From A Spektrum DX6 To A Taranis X9D Plus Transmitter
Oct 27 Choosing The Parts For TheLab.ms FPV Racing Drone Kit
Oct 20 BFight 210 FPV Racing Quadcopter
Oct 2 Fat Shark Dominator V3 FPV Goggles
Aug 28 Craft Coffee - Three Years Later
Aug 22 My Favorite 2S LiPo Batteries For Micro Drones
Aug 16 Building a Low-Power, High-Performance Ryzen Homelab Server to Host Virtual Machines
Aug 1 Three Months Flying The Holybro Shuriken X1 FPV Racing Drone
Jul 7 Acer Aspire VX15 Gaming Laptop and Linux
Jun 12 My Favorite Budget FPV Headset
Jun 1 KingKong 90GT Upgrades
May 15 Holybro Shuriken X1 FPV Racing Drone
Apr 10 The KingKong 90GT Micro Drone Is Bananas
Mar 28 My First Month Learning To Fly A Quadcopter In FPV
Mar 9 Holybro Shuriken 180 Pro - A Fast and Durable FPV Quadcopter
Feb 22 My 3D Printed Quadcopter - The PH145 Drone
Feb 3 Designing a 3D-Printed Parametric Micro Quadcopter with OpenSCAD
Jan 29 Repairing an Old, Sagging Recliner - Part 2 - Replacing the Cushion
Jan 27 I Upgraded to a Canon 6D Full Frame DSLR
Jan 18 My First Quadcopter - The Blade Nano QX Drone and Upgrades
Jan 11 Six Months with the Steam Link

2016

Nov 15 Choosing Quality USB Cables
Oct 27 The State of Linux on My Chuwi Hi12 - October 2016
Oct 14 My Chuwi Hi12 - Two Months Later
Aug 4 The Chuwi Hi12 Tablet and Keyboard
Jun 21 My First Week with the Steam Link and Steam Controller
Jun 6 I Almost Bought an Acer Predator X34
May 23 Prime Lenses: Canon 50mm f1.8 vs Yongnuo 35mm f2.0
Apr 30 InfiniBand: An Inexpensive Performance Boost For Your Home Network
Apr 19 Emacs: Automatically Adjust Font Size When Frame Width Changes
Mar 21 Camera Strap Upgrade For My DSLR
Mar 10 Using dm-cache / lvmcache On My Homelab Virtual Machine Host To Improve Disk Performance
Feb 18 Simple 3D Printed Upgrades For Your FlashForge Creator Pro
Feb 18 Control Multiple 3D Printers Using A Single Raspberry Pi and Octoprint
Feb 3 The Maker Modem from M2M Circuits
Jan 25 Should I Buy A Used DSLR?
Jan 5 3D Printing At TheLab.ms in Plano

2015

Nov 29 Gift Ideas For Geeks - 2015 Edition
Oct 28 Beginning My Home Automation Journey With The ESP8266 And The ESP210
Sep 6 Building a Low-Power, High-Performance Server to Host Virtual Machines
Aug 9 3D Printed Breadboard Spring Vise
Jul 8 Would I Still Buy a QNIX QX2710 in 2015?
Jun 15 My First Year of 3D Printing
Jun 8 The Blu Studio 6.0 LTE Android Smartphone
May 24 The E-Blue Mazer II Wireless Gaming Mouse
Apr 22 A 3D Printed Cable Cover For My Monitor Stand
Apr 5 Texas Pinball Festival 2015
Apr 1 Craft Coffee - Revisting The French Press And Moka Express Pot
Mar 23 Bioshock Infinite Workaround For Linux With AMD Processors
Mar 13 Craft Coffee - Quasar Coffee
Mar 2 Repairing an Old, Sagging Recliner
Feb 27 Craft Coffee - Rising Star Coffee
Feb 25 zsh-dwim: Simple chmod and chattr Transforms Are Too Simple
Feb 17 3D Printed Monitor Bracket
Feb 10 Craft Coffee - Perc Coffee and Vigilante Coffee
Jan 23 Craft Coffee - Revel Coffee Roasters - Part 2

2014

Dec 29 Craft Coffee - December 2014
Dec 12 Overclocking My QNIX QX2710 Monitors to 120 Hz With X.Org and Linux
Dec 3 Craft Coffee - November 2014 - modcup
Nov 21 Gift Ideas For Geeks - 2014 Edition
Nov 16 The Other Eight by Joseph Lallo
Nov 11 My Upgrade to Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn
Oct 31 Debezeling My QNIX QX2710 Monitors
Oct 28 Craft Coffee - October 2014 - Revel Coffee Roasters
Oct 10 3D Printed Keychain Connector for USB Flash Drives
Sep 28 Craft Coffee - September 2014 - Thirty Thirty
Sep 24 The Nvidia GTX 970, Linux, and Overclocking My QNIX QX2710 Monitors
Sep 22 Self-Hosted Cloud-Storage Comparison - 2014 Edition
Sep 15 zsh-dwim: Now With Faster Startup Times, Modular Configuration, and More
Sep 5 3D Printed Speaker and AC Adapter Brackets
Aug 31 Craft Coffee - August 2014 - Mountain Air Roasting
Aug 20 One Month With My Rancilio Silvia
Aug 9 Performance and Efficiency Improvements in Seafile 3.1
Aug 6 FiiO E07K Andes USB DAC/Amplifier
Jul 29 Craft Coffee - July 2014
Jul 28 Creating a 3D Printed Desk Mount For My FiiO E07K USB DAC using OpenSCAD
Jul 22 First Day With My Baratza Preciso Coffee Grinder
Jul 17 The First Night With My Racilio Silvia
Jul 13 3D-Printed Tablet Stand For an Inexpensive Bluetooth Keyboard
Jul 8 Upgrade from 120 GB Crucial M4 to 480 GB Crucial M500 SSD
Jul 4 Bulletproof Coffee
Jun 30 Strike Suit Zero
Jun 28 Craft Coffee - June 2014
Jun 24 3D Printable Upgrades for the MakerFarm Prusa i3
Jun 16 Monitor Stand for QNIX QX2710 and Other 27 Inch Monitors
Jun 11 Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
Jun 9 Craft Coffee - May 2014
Jun 3 My First Custom 3D Prints
May 23 I Bought a 3D Printer: I Have No Idea What I'm Doing
May 19 Traveling With Seafile and Limitless, Self-Hosted Cloud Storage
May 6 My First Shipment from Craft Coffee Has Arrived
Apr 28 Extending My Home Network With Ethernet over Powerline Adapters
Apr 15 The Great Bar Photo Caper
Apr 4 My Upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 Trusy Tahr
Mar 24 Constellation Games by Leonard Richardson and The Monarch of the Glen by Neil Gaiman
Mar 19 zsh-dwim: I Feel Like a Genius, Belatedly
Mar 14 Ten-Year Anniversary of Using Darcs and Git for My Emacs Config
Mar 10 Casino Royale by Ian Flemming
Mar 3 I Migrated To Octopress From Movable Type
Feb 17 A Couple of zbell.zsh Bug Fixes
Feb 12 My Gaming Story: The Start of Three Decades of Gaming
Jan 26 Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
Jan 20 I Really Miss My Solid-State Drive
Jan 13 Getting Notified When Long-Running Zsh Processes Complete
Jan 6 My Year in Books 2013

2013

Dec 29 Looking Back at My 2013 New Years Resolutions
Dec 20 Emacs: ELPA and use-package
Dec 15 Six Months with Seafile
Nov 27 Gift Ideas for Geeks
Nov 22 The Ipega Bluetooth Wireless Controller (PG-9017)
Nov 14 Buying a Third-Party Replacement Battery for My HP DV8T Laptop
Oct 27 Lightening My Laptop Bag With DriveDroid
Oct 19 Upgrading from (X)Ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10
Oct 9 Some Retro Gaming Nostalgia and the Konami Code
Oct 2 Hardware Failures, the Seafile 2.0 Beta Client, and Seafile's Server Requirements
Sep 20 Generating New, More Secure SSH Keys
Sep 13 Why Does the iPhone 5s Really Have a 64-bit Processor?
Sep 13 Ten Weeks with Seafile
Sep 6 QNIX QX2710 IPS LCD Monitors and Linux
Aug 30 Budget Linux Workstation Build - 2013
Aug 23 Does DDR3-1600 or DDR3-1866 Provide a Measurable Performance Increase Over DDR3-1333?
Aug 16 My Backup Strategy for 2013 - Real Time Off-Site Backups
Aug 6 My Friend Brian is Rebuilding an Arcade Cabinet
Jul 26 My Home Office - 2013
Jul 19 zsh-dwim: New Transformations for watch, modprobe, and dpkg
Jul 12 My Linux Workstation Build - 2013
Jul 5 My First Arduino
Jun 28 Self-Hosted Cloud Storage: Changing the Plan and Scaling Back
Jun 21 It's Great to Be Using a Mechanical Keyboard Again
Jun 10 The State of Hard Drive Manufacturers in 2013
May 31 Self-Hosted Cloud Storage: The Plan
May 17 zsh-dwim: Small Update For apt and dpkg
May 10 Invest in a Quality Office Chair
May 3 shstack: Persistent and Easy to Use Stacks Shared Between Shell Sessions
Apr 26 zsh-dwim: Transformations for the Find Command
Apr 22 Why Do I Run Ubuntu?
Apr 19 My BIOS is Limiting My CPU Clock Speed!
Apr 13 Self-Hosted Cloud Storage: ownCloud vs. SparkleShare vs. BitTorrent Sync vs. Seafile vs. Pydio - 2013 Edition
Apr 5 More Powerful Zsh Incremental History Search Using Zaw
Mar 22 zsh-dwim Now Works on Mac OS X and FreeBSD
Mar 16 Getting Solarized Working with emacsclient in both GUI and Terminal
Mar 1 Cocktail Arcade Cabinet Build: Postmortem - The Things We Got Right
Feb 22 Upgrading from Autojump to Fasd
Feb 15 Repairing a PlayStation 3 with the Yellow Light of Death (YLOD)
Feb 8 How Long Does It Take to Make a Latte with an Espresso Machine?
Feb 1 The Books I Read in 2012
Jan 25 Cocktail Arcade Cabinet Upgrade: Part 3 - The Conclusion
Jan 18 zsh-dwim: Most Recent Remote File Completion
Jan 11 Some New Years Resolutions For 2013
Jan 4 HP DV8T Core i7 Laptop Can Be Upgraded to 16 GB of RAM

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Dec 14 A Quick and Dirty wiper.sh Fix For Intel X25-M
Nov 30 My New Favorite Kind of Tape: Cloth Tape
Nov 1 Using QR Codes for Hardcopy Backups of Private Keys
Oct 27 Bonnie ++ Benchmarks on the Intel X25-M v1.4 Firmware Update
Oct 26 Android, K-9 Mail, and IMAP IDLE (Push Email)
Oct 21 My New Android Phone and Cyanogenmod 4.1.999
Oct 19 Saving Space With fusecompress
Oct 8 Fix for Karmic Koala 64-bit Flash Plugin
Oct 5 Screencast: yasnippet for emacs Now Supports Snippet in a Snippet
Oct 2 Measuring Battery Runtime Improvement With the Intel X25-m
Sep 25 Intel X25-M G2 vs. Old Laptop Drive Benchmarks
Sep 20 Intel X25-M G2 Upgrade, and a Lack of AHCI
Sep 19 Forcing AHCI To Increase Intel X25-M Performance
Aug 31 Experimenting with Compressed Swap
Aug 28 How I Reduced My Virtual Machine Disk Images By Over 75% With QEMU