I’ve been experiencing some slowdowns in my shell lately, I could not explain why. But I am using Oh My Zsh, and after some searching I found a blog post by Matthew J. Clemente that has a complete walkthrough of how to diagnose and fix slow (Oh My Zsh) shells. You start by measuring actual load times to set a base with a simple function you can put into your .

After owning my Creality Ender 3 Pro for almost a year I got sick of the noise it made, over the months I did some upgrades to my printer by printing new parts and replacing existing parts on my printer like fan ducts, display cover, tool drawer, etc. But this time it was a bigger upgrade, I replaced both the hotend cooling fan (not the directional fan that cools the print) and the control board fan.

As a big fan of Home Assistant I just have to advertise this product, for the less technical people there is Home Assistant Blue. It’s an all-in-one device that has all the hardware you need for controlling your home, all you need to do is add your smart devices. No more flashing SD cards or configuring your Raspberry Pi’s! https://www.home-assistant.io/blue Even if you’re not interested in the product itself, they also released a 3D file of the case for you to print for your Pi!

Today is the day I start learning for my motorcycle exam again, one month to go. I highly recommend anyone learning for their theoretical exam in The Netherlands to get the ANWB online exam excerise pack for 10 euros, it contains real exams with updated questions and I noticed that after reading the theoretical book once I was done with it and nothing really stuck. Using the online exam really helps as far I can tell, so far I’m getting more and more passes.

Currently dabbling in MicroPython because I want to be able to control my Denon AVR with a “wireless” volume knob which isn’t a remote because I like the tactile response a volume knob gives. Right now I am able to turn it on/off, turn the volume up/down, and switch input sources with my own controller library I quickly wrote on a friday night. For testing I’m using an old car radio button which doesn’t behave like a normal rotary encoder it seems, wiring it up like a normal encoder will cause shorts in the system and trigger unwanted commands.