Blog - Nick Moline

Technology

Free "On Air" Light for Business Meetings: Using Home Assistant to update lights based on meetings

I've recently setup Home Assistant to help me notify my wife whenever I'm in a meeting and my mic is active. Check out how I did it.

Nov 13, 2024 8 minute read.

Blogging

Backfill Complete

The lengthy process of editing all of my past content to be fully compatible with statamic is finally complete.

Jan 17, 2024 1 minute read.

Blogging

A Journey to the past: Experiencing my blog from 2004

Ever since the move to Statamic, I’ve been systematically going through my old posts and fixing them so they look good in this post. I’ve been doing these in small batches and as of tonight have updated the archive all the way back to the beginning of 2004 and a smattering of posts from 2003.

Sep 22, 2023 1 minute read.

Projects

Migrating this site to Statamic: the more things change...

I’ve migrated this site multiple times over the years. It has run on Movable Type , BlogCMS , Wordpress, Drupal , back to Wordpress , and most recently, Jekyll . There was a lot to like about Jekyll: The fact that the public website was completely static html eliminated the possibility of the...

Jul 25, 2023 4 minute read.

Technology

Bonus Action, Two WeApoN Fighting: Using 2 separate Internet Services (WAN) when working from home

Working from home makes reliable internet essential, if the internet goes down for days I can't work, to combat this, I need to have another weapon at the ready.

Mar 27, 2021 9 minute read.

Theatre

That Time I Made a Harpy: Creating Real Time Visual Effects

For the latest show I've worked on, I had an unusual new challenge, could I turn someone into a Harpy in real time? How about turning a woman into a rainbow?

Mar 15, 2021 12 minute read.