Category: Technology
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Big Talbot Island Photos
As someone who loves to photography and nature, I was excited to take my drone to Big Talbot Island to get some great shots. The marshes and natural land there are beautiful, and the sunset was simply stunning. I’m so glad I got to capture it all on video! drone photography is a great way…
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Apellix Drones
I met with the talent and founders behind Apellix drones here in Jacksonville Florida and I was incredibly impressed. Despite how they look these are not regular quadcopters, the photos and video are cool, but they really do not do them justice. I won’t go into the technical secret sauce behind their work, but there…
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I mine cryptocurrency with a Helium Miner
Starting in January of 2022 I installed a Helium Miner on my roof. If you’ve never heard of Helium before, no I don’t mean the inert gas Helium. I’m talking about Helium the cryptocurrency. Everyone is familiar with Radio by now. Many people use WIFI, however like WIFI you can join the Helium LoRa radio…
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My Drone crash, a story of recovery and repair
This is the story of my drone crash. I thought it might make for a cool effect to fly at night through the fog around University of North Florida. But once I got flying I realized it wasn’t nearly as good, the lighting was poor and visibility was low. I decided to land within 5…
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I wrote a script that fixes all your Nginx sites to php8 on Ubuntu 21.10
I had a working webserver running LEMP (Linux, Nginx, Mysql, PHP) and I saw my Linode Linux VPS had a release upgrade. So I ran the Ubuntu “do-release-upgrade” command and after 15 minutes of updating it was updated, hooray! Except after rebooting, all my websites were dead with a 502 Nginx error. Upgrading from Ubuntu…