What would you do if you were told you had 60 days to live? 

That is a question that has been on my mind lately. Someone I know was more or less told that this month. I wondered, what would you do? What can you do? Would you feel like you had a good run? Are you leaving things better...

Today I published my first ever browser plugin for Google Chrome - Librarian.

Since I began using the internet in the early 90s I have always bookmarked everything I thought was unique,...

In my last post on running Ollama in my home, I detailed how I repurposed an Intel NUC as a mini-server to host Ollama, Docker services, Fedora Server, pi‑hole, and more (kevinquillen.com) for only $100.

With that server setup, I’ve...

5 years ago I decided to get a Raspberry Pi Zero W and install Pi-Hole on it for blocking bad traffic on our network. It worked incredibly well. The little Pi would stay on without a reboot...

In my last post I mentioned releasing a small project in Rust called Hoi, a task runner meant for collaboration or personal use. Since then I was able to add a few more features, nearing a point which I consider 'feature complete':

• Run unit...

During covid lockdowns I had several projects in my spare time to keep me busy. One of them was teaching myself to learn how to read sheet music. Another was building an LCD screen marquee of data powered by a Raspberry Pi 3. One was to learn how to write my own programming language using the...

For many years, Postman was a tool of choice for me when testing APIs while in development. It was a quick way to construct HTTP requests of any type and probe responses, test auth, things of that nature. It made quick work of figuring out how to design consumers, client wrappers and objects in...

We're coming up on almost three years of automated Drupal core updates for my personal site. 

In June of 2022, I hooked up Renovate (you can ...

Forticlient seems to have a lot of issues working correctly on Fedora and/or SAML required setups (where you complete the auth in an external browser). The best I can get from the error logs is that the connection was terminated. Fortinets support of Linux is not the best.

Fortunately you...

It has been perhaps the 3 busiest months of my life between bidding on homes, closing, and moving. Despite my best efforts and planning, there was a lot more work and logistics than I had anticipated. While we are mostly settled now, there is a lot I wish I knew upfront that would make it go...