Welcome to my blog! Here you’ll find posts about my adventures in tech tinkering, homelab experiments, maker projects, and cycling escapades. Whether I’m setting up servers, building something cool, or hitting the trails on two wheels, I document the journey here.

GoingOffGrid

Today’s the day After being on the waiting list for some time, my PowerWall 2 + Gateway installation is finally happening today.

By Jon Archer

I'm certified, AWS certified that is.

I’m proud to announce that I sat my AWS Security Speciality Certification exam yesterday and passed.

By Jon Archer

New Site Part 3

Since I setup the new version of this blog using Hugo, hosted on Cloudfront, I put together a Grafana instance to monitor traffic hitting the CDN.

By Jon Archer

New Site - Part 2

Just a few days ago I wrote about renewing this site due to wanting to get rid of my hosted VM.

By Jon Archer

New Blog site

It’s been a while since I posted a new blog post, but I’ve recently decided to scale down my hosting (VM) in favour of attempting to make content a…

By Jon Archer

Recipe: Garlic & Lemon Marinade for Chicken

First off, happy new year to everyone

By Jon Archer

Aquaponics and growing update, late summer.

Hi all, been a while since I’ve posted anything, I’ve recently picked up myself a new camera.

By Jon Archer

Home Brewing Beer with Tech

Many moons ago, I used to brew my own beer.

By Jon Archer

Sensoring Aquaponics

As part of my interest in aquaponics I’ve always intended to enable some kind of electronic monitoring, various thoughts on what to monitor and how have been in my head for a while.

By Jon Archer