SBaronda.com a little place I like to call home.

Now 2025

Dec. 6, 2025

Previous versions:

Physical

  • Woodworking
    • Building cutting boards
    • Building pizza peels (still need to do)
    • Floating bookshelves
  • Preparing a house for sale (sold 9/2025)
  • Preparing a new house...

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Setting up PTR (rDNS) records with vyos

Jul. 30, 2024

Having a DNS server available on your network might seem unusual, but it's actually quite common. We have EdgeOS and OpenWRT with dnsmasq. We have VyOS 1.5 with pdns-resolver. Other dedicated DNS solutions that you can find within someones homelab...

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Now 2024

Feb. 25, 2024

Updated: 2024-02-25

Physical

  • Woodworking
    • Building cutting boards
    • Building pizza peels
  • Being a dad

Digital

  • working on mynotes.guru
  • working on homectl (or home in CLI form) - a CLI interface to easily deploy my...

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Modern Slat Bench (Nelson Platform clone)

Nov. 4, 2023

I finally finished the Nelson Platform Bench that I've been working on. I took inspiration from tutorial done by the Family Handyman back in 2019. It suggested the project would take a weekend. It took me 4 years to finish this project.

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Setting up MinIO behind Caddy V1 (with MinIO Console)

Nov. 3, 2023

For my hosting environment, I'm still running Caddy V1 :( for some applications. In one application, I needed to reverse proxy to MinIO.

The way that I wanted it setup was to allow o.tld to be the object storage (aka MinIO Server) and o.tld/console

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Home Assistant 2023.1.7 - Install

Oct. 2, 2023

This is copied from https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/linux#install-dependencies and stored for historical purposes.

INSTALL DEPENDENCIES

Before you start, make sure your system is fully updated, all packages in this guide are installed with...

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Dynamic ActiveModelSerializers

Jan. 25, 2023

I've used ActiveModelSerializers (AMS) for a long time. It's development history is unique as there are 3 different major branches of it with breaking changes per branch. I don't recommend that you use AMS anymore as there isn't a ton of development...

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Turn Off Caplocks Via Powershell

Dec. 30, 2022

As a VIM user I naturally gravigated towards using caplocks as something other than caplocks. I have no need for caplocks at all, therefore, I don't map it to another key. Without caplocks bound, it sometimes presents problems if a game or program...

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