Making a Dice Tray
Playing board games with little kids leads to a lot of dice on the floor. We needed a dice tray, so I built one using mostly construction lumber scraps.
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Woodworking
Building a Loft Bed for my Kid
My kid wanted a loft bed. but these are so expensive that I was sure I could do it much cheaper myself. Will this be a waste of money? Or will it turn out go...
Building a Miter Saw Station for the Shop
There is never enough space in the shop, and the miter saw needs a place to stay as well - so why not building a miter saw station with storage for other thi...
Making a Doll Bunk Bed from Scraps
My 5yo asked me if I could build a bunk bed for her favorite dolls - of course I said ‘yes’ and went to work, using mostly scraps.
Making Halloween Lawn Decorations from Construction Plywood - with my Kid
My 7yo wanted to have some Halloween lawn and porch decorations - so we made some together from construction plywood.
Building a Raised Vegetable Garden
During winter I’ve built a 16ft plant bed entirely from construction grade, leftover redwood from a construction site.
Making Adjustable Kids Desks During a Pandemic - a Woodworking Endeavor
In about 15 months during a pandemic I’ve made desks for my kids, which will grow with them. But it was way harder than I first expected…
Making a Key Rack from Woodworking Scraps
In this woodworking build I’ve used scraps from other projects to make a key rack with a built-in flower vase.
Making a Wooden Spice Rack
A small woodworking project where I used SketchUp first to determine what to build and how.
My first Woodworking Project - an Outdoor Coffee Table
My very first woodworking project: a simple outdoor coffee table made from 2-by-4s.
Android
Reconnecting a WearOS Watch after a Phone Reset or Replacement
Sometimes an Android phone is getting replaced, or it gets reset due to a problem or after flashing a Custom ROM. Then the WearOS companion needs a reset too...
Reduce the data partition size on Android to allow encryption
On some Android devices (i.e. Moto G5 Plus a.k.a. Potter) device encryption doesn’t work when installing a custom ROM, because the entire /data partition was...
Linux
Docker Inside an Unprivileged Proxmox LXC Container
Instead of running a full VM just to run a bunch of Docker containers, I wanted to utilize the LXC feature of Proxmox. It allows for running a full Debian sy...
Fix outdated Let’s Encrypt root CA certificate on Ubuntu 14
When the initial Let’s Encrypt root/CA certificate expired, it needed to be manually replaced on outdated systems. Here is one way to do this.
Virtualization
Docker Inside an Unprivileged Proxmox LXC Container
Instead of running a full VM just to run a bunch of Docker containers, I wanted to utilize the LXC feature of Proxmox. It allows for running a full Debian sy...
Convert VM from OVA to QCOW2 and run on QEMU/KVM
Sometimes you don’t have the environment to run a virtual appliance the way it is meant to be. Then you need to get creative…
General
Welcome at McFiscH’s
I’m Mario a.k.a. McFiscH - SysAdmin, DevOps Engineer, Geek, Gamer, Musician, Woodworker, Husband and Dad.
Tutorials
Managing InterServer DNS via cPanel API
Managing DNS records remotely via InterServer’s cPanel API, allowing Certbot in a Docker container to request and to renew wildcard certificates from Let’s E...
APIs
Managing InterServer DNS via cPanel API
Managing DNS records remotely via InterServer’s cPanel API, allowing Certbot in a Docker container to request and to renew wildcard certificates from Let’s E...
Encryption
Reduce the data partition size on Android to allow encryption
On some Android devices (i.e. Moto G5 Plus a.k.a. Potter) device encryption doesn’t work when installing a custom ROM, because the entire /data partition was...
Synology
Add Community Package Repo to a Synology NAS
This shows how to make the Syno Community package repository available to a Synology NAS.
Windows
WSL Crash on Windows 10
When your Windows Subsystem for Linux VM crashes with no apparent error message, it could be due to a Windows security setting that blocks certain DLL calls.
VM
WSL Crash on Windows 10
When your Windows Subsystem for Linux VM crashes with no apparent error message, it could be due to a Windows security setting that blocks certain DLL calls.
Docker
Docker Inside an Unprivileged Proxmox LXC Container
Instead of running a full VM just to run a bunch of Docker containers, I wanted to utilize the LXC feature of Proxmox. It allows for running a full Debian sy...