Raised Bed Vegetable Garden

In April 2023 I built a raised bed out of recycled deck boards that were harvested from a disassembled old project (a wooden deck mounted atop the latter rack of my truck). The original lumber was pressure-treated and stained, which in some ways was ideal and in other ways possibly bad. It was suitable for outdoor use and for contact with the ground on account of the treatments, which is great, but for the same reasons it was also a hazard for the many chemicals that may leech into the soil and may be absorbed into the plant. After some amount of research and consideration, we decided that we would be fine.

I have a container running Frigate, which captures and republishes a feed from my security camera overlooking the area beyond my deck. I will periodically capture a frame from this stream for some time, and compile the frames into time-lapses using ffmpeg

Docker Container - Frigate

As I mention above, I am already using Frigate to manage my IP camera stream for things like object detection, recording, and other such functions that are common in video management systems. The software lacks built-in features relating to time-lapses, but this is easily implemented through other means.

This site is built with a static site generator Hugo with the LoveIt theme.

This is a web log, not a blog, though the distinction exists only in my head, and serves as a way to distance myself from the word blog itself, which now seems to connote something odd I cannot quite put my finger on. Perhaps relevant is that I do not like portmanteaus. They reduce precision and create ambiguity by default. They have the feeling of whimsy and unseriousness – sort of like the product of a marketing department’s monomaniacal pursuit of capturing even a tiny additional scrap of mindshare, without respect at all for the words it clumsily hot-glues together. Something like this.

05-02-2023 to 05-09-2023

Bailey and I went to PNW coast for a few days.

• Seattle, Tacoma
• Port Townsend
• Wilderness Rim
• Cannon Beach
• Rockaway Beach
• Cape Meares
• La Push (à la Twilight)

Photo Gallery

Estes Park

Photo Gallery

Sometime in 2021 I build a wood platform and solar generator to sit on top of the latter rack I installed on my truck. I use it for camping, fireworks shows, tailgating, etc. The solar generator allows me to silently power a portable fridge, lights, cooking equipment. Anything that draws less than 1200 watts. The deck was built as an all-purpose platform. It is large enough to sleep on or put chairs on, and for my sanity was totally and completely overengineered. It places me something like 9 feet off the ground, comfortably away from ground-dwelling bugs and critters.