How i made my room just a little smarter using a rpi and AliExpress

Let me start this off by prefacing that i made my room just a little smarter, nothing too crazy. This post is going to be about how i used a Raspberry Pi, Python, Grafana, Prometheus, Docker and some sensors that i picked up from AliExpress for a few bucks.

So what the hell did i make?

Well, take a look for yourself at the pictures at the bottom of this page.

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Why you should setup a DNS sinkhole

I’ve know about the concept for years now, but i always imagined it to be a pain to setup. In said imagination it was going to take me days to set this up, and i recently got to it because my exams were over.

Only thing is; it took me a grand total of 30 minutes to set it up. This blogpost is going to be about how and what i did to set it up, and hopefully inspire you to do the same.

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My ~25 KiB site is simply better; ranting about the current state of the web, soydevs beware.

Let me start this post off by prefacing that i’m not counting images here. I’m talking about pure HTML/CSS/JS or whatever bullshit frameworks a site might use.

In today’s world most websites are simply bloated, no way around it. But what exactly am I talking about here? These days, most sites are 5-10-20MiB. But why is this? It would be simple to blame it onto soydevs, but often multiple megabyte’s of difference are ads, trackers and junk being loaded in.

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How i organized my dotfiles

It seems appropriate to start this post off with giving an explanation as to why i would want to do this.

Luckily this is simple to explain; I’m a lazy fucker, that’s why. No really, that’s pretty much all there is too it. I simply wanted to make the process of syncing my dotfiles to and from multiple of my systems (most notably my laptop and my desktop) easier.

I used to do this manually, where i had set up a repo where i would manually cp and then mv my config files into them, but this took minutes. Like i said, I’m lazy and had time on my hands.

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