https://blog.nathanv.me/Recent content on nathanv@blogHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usNathan VaughnNathan VaughnWritten by a human, for humansTue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/sony-mdr7506-detachable-cable/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/sony-mdr7506-detachable-cable/ <img src="https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/sony-mdr7506-detachable-cable/img/PXL_20260421_222458211.jpg"/> Modding my Sony MDR7506 to unchain them from a coiled cordhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/dataverse-sql-python/Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/dataverse-sql-python/ Run SQL queries against Microsoft Dataverse with Pythonhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/docker-multiarch-ci/Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/docker-multiarch-ci/ A major footgun when creating multi-architecture Docker images and pushing them to a registryhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/clacks-overhead/Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/clacks-overhead/ X-Clacks-Overheadhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/getting-my-pilots-license/Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/getting-my-pilots-license/ <img src="https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/getting-my-pilots-license/img/PXL_20250531_113131887.jpg"/> Cost and thoughts of getting my pilot's license in small town Iowa.https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/cursed-knowledge/Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/cursed-knowledge/ A collection of cursed knowledge I've gathered over the years.https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/azure-artifacts-uv/Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/azure-artifacts-uv/ Getting the `uv` package manager to work nicely with Azure Artifacts and Pipelineshttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/fk-7000p-cleaning/Sat, 09 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/fk-7000p-cleaning/ <img src="https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/fk-7000p-cleaning/img/PXL_20241031_225003731.jpg"/> Cleaning a Focus FK-7000P keyboard from the 1980shttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/polishing-brass/Mon, 29 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/polishing-brass/ <img src="https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/polishing-brass/img/PXL_20240721_184704682.jpg"/> My attempt at polishing the original door hardware in my century home.https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/crowdstroke/Fri, 19 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/crowdstroke/ <img src="https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/crowdstroke/img/crowdstroke-logo.png"/> My comments on today's CrowdStrike incidenthttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/sonatype-nexus-cloudflare-r2/Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/sonatype-nexus-cloudflare-r2/ No long be bound by the shackles of AWS or your filesystem.https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/kidde-leak-detector/Tue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/kidde-leak-detector/ <img src="https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/kidde-leak-detector/img/Item_Image_047871312085_pp.jpg"/> Getting the Kidde Water Leak + Freeze Detector to work with my WiFi was much harder than it needed to be.https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/domains/Mon, 06 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/domains/ Let's talk about domain nameshttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/antarctica-trip/Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/antarctica-trip/ <img src="https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/antarctica-trip/img/PXL_20240112_221910704.jpg"/> My trip in January 2024 to Argentina and Antarcticahttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/authentik-octoprint-cura/Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/authentik-octoprint-cura/ Four hours of my life wasted to implied port numbershttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/garmin-400-sim-modern-windows/Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/garmin-400-sim-modern-windows/ <img src="https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/garmin-400-sim-modern-windows/img/it-works.png"/> Getting the Garmin 400 series GPS simulator running on modern versions of Windowshttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/dev-to-prod-gap/Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/dev-to-prod-gap/ Making your dev environment more closely resemble production/CIhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/gpg-windows/Tue, 06 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/gpg-windows/ Signing commits on Windows with GPG in Windows, WSL, and Dev Containershttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/cloudflare-pages-hugo-baseurl/Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/cloudflare-pages-hugo-baseurl/ Properly configuring your Hugo site's base URL when using Cloudflare Pages.https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/hugo-resources/Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/hugo-resources/ Using resources in Hugo to automatically process static site assets.https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/python-tooling-vol-2/Sun, 22 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/python-tooling-vol-2/ Modern Python tools for modern Python developers: Volume 2https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/octoprint-setup/Wed, 02 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/octoprint-setup/ <img src="https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/octoprint-setup/img/cover.jpg"/> Using an HP Chromebox to run Octoprint for my Ender 3https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/one-key-keyboard/Fri, 10 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/one-key-keyboard/ <img src="https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/one-key-keyboard/img/keyboard.jpg"/> Building a one-key keyboard with the NovelKeys Big Switchhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/python-pet-peeves/Sat, 16 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/python-pet-peeves/ My personal pet peeves when writing Pythonhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/python-tooling/Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/python-tooling/ <img src="https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/python-tooling/img/cover.png"/> Modern Python tools for modern Python developershttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/docker-image-names-for-dummies/Sun, 10 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/docker-image-names-for-dummies/ Explaining the structure of Docker image names and the hidden defaultshttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/python-package-caching/Thu, 02 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/python-package-caching/ How to effectively cache Python packages from Azure Artifacts in CI/CDhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/python-type-hinting/Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/python-type-hinting/ Take your Python code to the next level with type hintshttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/vs-code-extensions/Thu, 03 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/vs-code-extensions/ Some of my favorite VS Code extensions that have changed how I write code.https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/quay-registry/Sun, 30 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/quay-registry/ <img src="https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/quay-registry/img/cover.jpg"/> Run your own Docker registry with a web UI and vulnerability scanning for free by using Quay and Clair from Red Hathttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/stripping-botocore-python-serverless/Mon, 19 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/stripping-botocore-python-serverless/ Shave 50MB off your AWS Lambda functions with just a ~~little bit~~ lot of configurationhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/not-so-budget-home-network/Sun, 21 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/not-so-budget-home-network/ <img src="https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/not-so-budget-home-network/img/cover.jpg"/> Now that I live somewhere permanently, my home network has gotten more complex.https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/ibm-model-m-cleaning/Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/ibm-model-m-cleaning/ <img src="https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/ibm-model-m-cleaning/img/model-m-angle.jpg"/> Cleaning an original IBM Model M from 1986https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/python-permission-issue/Mon, 26 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/python-permission-issue/ How to deal with an extremely strange Python file permission issuehttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/domain-abuse/Tue, 06 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/domain-abuse/ A short rant on companies' obsession with domain nameshttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/spin-windows/Tue, 08 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/spin-windows/ <img src="https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/spin-windows/img/cover.png"/> How to install the Spin model checker on Windowshttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/wyze-update/Sat, 22 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/wyze-update/ An update on my various Wyze health productshttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/corncob-football/Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/corncob-football/ <img src="https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/corncob-football/img/corncob_cfd.png"/> A humorous analysis of the practicality of using a corncob as a footballhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/wyze-scale-review/Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/wyze-scale-review/ <img src="https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/wyze-scale-review/img/stock-scale.png"/> My review of the new(ish) Wyze Scalehttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/wyze-band-review/Sat, 20 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/wyze-band-review/ <img src="https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/wyze-band-review/img/stock-band.png"/> My review of the new(ish) Wyze Bandhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/dynamodb-for-dummies/Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/dynamodb-for-dummies/ <img src="https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/dynamodb-for-dummies/img/dynamodb-dummies.png"/> An introductory guide to using AWS DynamoDBhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/faking-python-imports/Mon, 20 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/faking-python-imports/ Doing bad things with Python to fake module importshttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/schwinn-bicycle-update/Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/schwinn-bicycle-update/ <img src="https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/schwinn-bicycle-update/img/fun-in-the-sun-v2.jpg"/> Short update on my repaired 1973 Schwinn bikehttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/windows-mouse-lagging/Thu, 19 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/windows-mouse-lagging/ Discovering that Synergy was causing my mouse cursor to lag on Windowshttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/fixing-schwinn-bicycle/Wed, 26 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/fixing-schwinn-bicycle/ <img src="https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/fixing-schwinn-bicycle/img/fun-in-the-sun.jpg"/> Repairing an old 27" 1973 Schwinn Varsity 10-speed bicycle to rideable conditionhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/google-drive-bad/Mon, 24 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/google-drive-bad/ <img src="https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/google-drive-bad/img/cover.jpg"/> My experience moving from Google Drive to OneDrive.https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/replacing-mailgun/Sun, 09 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/replacing-mailgun/ Replacing Mailgun with SendGrid and ForwardEmailhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/armoury-crate-wake/Mon, 03 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/armoury-crate-wake/ Fixing Asus Armoury Crate from waking my Windows computer from sleephttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/sun-ultra-24-build/Sun, 05 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/sun-ultra-24-build/ <img src="https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/sun-ultra-24-build/img/new_home.jpg"/> Building a server inside an old Sun Ultra 24 casehttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/docker-hub-multiple-tags/Sat, 23 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/docker-hub-multiple-tags/ Writing a custom build hook for Docker Hub to apply multiple tags to a Docker imagehttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/static-site-github-actions/Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/static-site-github-actions/ How I used GitHub Actions to completely automate the building and deployment of my personal site (and this blog)https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/budget-home-network/Mon, 14 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/budget-home-network/ <img src="https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/budget-home-network/img/cover.jpg"/> This is the first time I've lived somewhere where I can setup my own network. I just wanted to write up how I've done it.https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/hp-utilities-ubuntu/Sun, 21 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/hp-utilities-ubuntu/ Installing HPE Linux Management Component Pack on Ubuntu on a Gen 5 serverhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/docker-mysql-to-mariadb/Sat, 20 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/docker-mysql-to-mariadb/ <img src="https://blog.nathanv.me/posts/docker-mysql-to-mariadb/img/mysql_to_mariadb.jpg"/> Replacing existing MySQL 8 containers in Docker Compose stacks with MariaDBhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/self-host-docker/Sun, 07 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/self-host-docker/ Moving my personal web apps from the cloud to self-hosted infrastructurehttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/boinc-with-sge/Fri, 05 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000Nathan Vaughnhttps://blog.nathanv.me/posts/boinc-with-sge/ Getting BOINC to work on a High-Performance Cluster that uses Sun Grid Engine for job scheduling to donate extra compute time