11/2/2025 Press 300 lbs apples of mixed variety into 17.2 gallons of juice Gala Golden Supreme Jonathan Pasteurize to 60C 11/3/2025 Measure 1.073 SG at 69F Measure 3.34 g/L of malic acid Titrate using wine kit with 0.1 normalcy 3ml sample 4 drops phenolphthalein indicator 1.5ml NaOH 0.25 kit multiplier 0.89 tartaric to malic converstion multiplier 1.5ml * 0.25 = 0.375 percent tartaric 3.75 g/L = 0.375 * 10 3.34 g/L malic = 3.75 * 0.89 ...
9/20/2025 Sanitize everything Boil 2.5 gallons filtered water Dissolve 4 lbs corn sugar Raise water to 5 gallons Cool to 78F Measure 1.057 SG Pitch Lalvin EC-118 and nutrient 9/28/2025 Finished Re-fill airlock Wait. 10/6/2025 Mix 5/8 cup cane sugar with 2 cups water and boil Add ~2 tbsp lemon salt and 1/2 tiny vile lime oil Prime keg and drain fermenter Bottle several Force carbonate to 30 PSI Wait. 10/9/2025 Reduce pressure to 15 PSI Pour. Splash. Drink. Delicious. Reduce pressure to 12 PSI
The homelab has started to sprawl out of the tidy little closet it started in, and I began wondering if I could relocate parts of it to a less visible part of the house. The trouble is, that the ethernet connections all converged at this one tiny closet, and the drywall was all buttoned-up and I had no intention of drilling holes to run new cables. The angle was somewhat tricky, where I could fish a cable up the wall, but could not get to it from across the ceiling. At the same time, I could get to that same area through the ceiling, but not down the wall. ...
This last year has certainly been busy, both professionally, and personally. I’ve not much made the time to reflect, but I expect to change that. As the new year began, I was thinking of the future and wondering about the digital footprint that I’ve left behind. With a meager couple decades of internet connectivity, I give thanks for the alley behind my parents old house where I could ride my bicycle, and the drainage ditch nearby that I was able to explore when I was young. Instead of socializing online, I grew up interacting with the area around me, and avoided much of what young people online today might learn to regret. ...
After reading one book, taking a class, and a couple false starts, Kubernetes was very much in front of me as something I needed to learn. As a long time home-lab herder, often a great way for me to learn is to get hands-on. So I decided to build a new lab and start migrating some services to it. With just a little bit of research and talking to some knowledgeable folks, I landed on using K3s on a three node cluster on fan-less hardware backed with a PostgreSQL database somewhere off-cluster. ...