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Monitoring a mixed fleet of flash, HDD, and NVMe devices with node_exporter and Prometheus in 2 hours
For many years, I've had a Linux box off in the corner that fills a number of useful roles. I used to have something beefier and bigger but it turns out that most of what I really want, I can just do with an Intel NUC. The most recent re-build of my Linux box had me looking around for what sorts of…

Ender 3v2 from July to October 7 months ago
tl;dr: Auto-leveling is great, Silky PLA is great and PETG is annoying, vase mode and fat nozzles are great, and prints are mostly turning out right without pain and suffering. So far, I got a printer, managed to actually print things other than calibration pieces and printer mods, and then the…

My particular implementation of the Rubbermaid 21 Cup and Sterilite 20 qt dryboxes 9 months ago
I started out without a drybox or dehydrator with my printer. I got one roll of PLA and one roll of PETG and I figured that I'd use my time on the PLA roll to determine what I was going to do with the PETG roll. About two weeks in, I'd used maybe half of the spool of PET so I decided that it was…

My Ender 3v2's failed motherboard, the repair work, and the new BLTouch 10 months ago
Just outside of the Amazon return window but before the actual warranty went out, my printer's motherboard failed, which triggered some maintenance and upgrades. Walking away from the printer and a Spaghetti Detective After getting the printer, I've been printing like mad. A lot of other people's…

Step 1: A recap of past construction 10 months ago
This is mostly a recap of the results of my previous effort that ran CircuitPython . The hardware was fine but once I moved from a 60 LED strip to a 144 LED strip, the M4 didn't have enough memory to hold bitmaps in RAM anymore if I was using CircuitPython. So, after I'd carefully migrated the…