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My name is Mario a.k.a. McFiscH. I’m a SysAdmin, a DevOps Engineer, a Geek, a Casual Gamer, a Casual Musician, a Woodworker - oh, and a Dad and Husband as well, so there might be a pun or a dad joke appear here or there in this blog. And since I’m German, they may even be more terrible than one would expect… continue

Recent Posts

Making a Dice Tray

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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.

Building a Loft Bed for my Kid

12 minute read

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

9 minute read

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

9 minute read

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.

Building a Raised Vegetable Garden

7 minute read

During winter I’ve built a 16ft plant bed entirely from construction grade, leftover redwood from a construction site.

Making a Wooden Spice Rack

4 minute read

A small woodworking project where I used SketchUp first to determine what to build and how.

WSL Crash on Windows 10

4 minute read

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.

Managing InterServer DNS via cPanel API

4 minute read

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...

Welcome at McFiscH’s

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I’m Mario a.k.a. McFiscH - SysAdmin, DevOps Engineer, Geek, Gamer, Musician, Woodworker, Husband and Dad.