In late July 2026 the mini PC running Home Assistant for my house rebooted mid-config and never came back. The reboot pulled the trigger; the SSD was already failing. The bigger surprise: of 33.94 GB my backup restored, ...
In July 2026 I went looking for the best cooling comforter for an Arizona summer, and the answer turned out to be that I shouldn't buy one. The bed has a BedJet, which blows heated or cooled air under the covers. On a ...
My thermostat's room sensor once decided I was in my office for about half a day after I left, and kept turning a light on in an empty room. The motion sensor there did the opposite: sit still long enough and the lights ...
In July 2026 I looked into camping in an RV at a festival. The first rule decided almost everything: personal generators were banned site-wide, an RV's built-in one included. Outside a few paid RV zones, on my numbers, ...
In June I brought a weather bot to a four-day music festival in the woods. It posted conditions, forecasts and rain warnings to an off-grid community radio mesh. It reboot-cycled for two days, died for good late on day ...
At the last Electric Forest on-sale, the Back 40 log cabins were gone 15 minutes after the 10-year loyalty tier opened, and Back 40 RVs lasted 20 minutes into the 9-year tier. Good Life pre-set RVs sold out more than an ...
My Discord community had a radio station: a bot in a voice channel playing a newest-first playlist of mixes, where a new mix jumped the queue and played next. When I went through it on June 3, 2026, the part that ...
I wanted a visual for every track in my DJ library, locked to its beat. Priced across a few thousand tracks at what my early runs cost, it came out in six figures. One uncapped test run cost $363.70 on its own. The ...
Two years of turning a Rivian R1T into something that can sleep two, run its own climate control and stay online off-grid. Every part, every mistake, and what I would buy again.
We get asked a lot about the gear we camp with. Here’s our master packing list. Are you looking for information on our Rivian build?
That's everything: 50 posts.
One email per post. No digest, no sponsors, no course. Unsubscribe link at the bottom of every one.
