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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2024
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...
2023
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...
2022
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.
2021
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…
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.
Fix outdated Let’s Encrypt root CA certificate on Ubuntu 14
When the initial Let’s Encrypt root/CA certificate expired, it needed to be manually replaced on outdated systems.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.
Building a Raised Vegetable Garden
During winter I’ve built a 16ft plant bed entirely from construction grade, leftover redwood from a construction site.
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...
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.
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.
Add Community Package Repo to a Synology NAS
This shows how to make the Syno Community package repository available to a Synology NAS.
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...
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...
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I’m Mario a.k.a. McFiscH - SysAdmin, DevOps Engineer, Geek, Gamer, Musician, Woodworker, Husband and Dad.