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Brian Jackson

@jaxz.in

A Dad that blabbers about home automation too much.

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Just in case you're keeping track, we're at genocide.

18.12.2025 17:09 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like someone should start the rumor that Daylight Saving Time is something the left really wants because of climate change or something like that.

30.10.2025 12:43 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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New Home Assistant card I made last night. As a salaried employee, display the dollar amount I’m effectively donating back to my company in free labor when I’m at my desk over 8 hours. Resets daily.

This may come off as if I’m disgruntled, but it was only about real data of a thought experiment!

16.10.2025 02:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ILM did a lot of incredible work on this movie. I got to work on nearly all stages of visual effects on this one, from preproduction and virtual production, to post-production. I’m proud of how my team helped bring another story to the Tron universe. #pinchme

13.10.2025 04:06 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Google changing the Meet β€œLeave call” button from triggering on mouse-up to mouse-down is an act of psychological warfare.

I used to press and hold as I finished my goodbyes. Now I vanish mid-sentence.

07.10.2025 22:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Kimmel quadrupling his usual ratings while missing almost a quarter of his usual coverage is...

25.09.2025 01:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I saw the headline "Alien:Earth episode 5 is the best Alien movie in 39 years" thinking it was hyperbole. Just finished it and wow that wasn't an exaggeration. It kinda makes me wish we had 60 min feature films. I'd love to see this on the silver screen.

07.09.2025 20:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I made my own cocktail, which I shall dub the Bermuda Bramble! 1 oz of Gosling’s Black Seal Rum, fresh blackberry soda made from my backyard wild berry syrup, and a squeeze of lime. πŸ‹β€πŸŸ© I’ve made some clunkers in the past but this is frickin’ delicious. #yum #cocktails

16.08.2025 20:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I’ll be in Vancouver at SIGGRAPH this year. My second SIGGRAPH and my first time in Vancouver! Let me know if you’ll be there too! #siggraph

02.08.2025 12:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I just issued my first TLS certificate directly in Kubernetes against a Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Server after Terraforming the snot out of some Helm charts and a ClusterIssuer manifest with full Gitlab CI deployment.
I feel like I need a section on my resume for just that one task.

26.07.2025 02:57 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm seeing a lot of chatter again about "how on earth did Gareth Edwards' THE CREATOR (2023) only cost xxx dollars and it looks so good and has amazing VFX?!?!"

Well, here's us talking about exactly that for 45 minutes, or hear two minutes from Gareth himself below:

youtu.be/amVkSiiZY4Y?...

21.07.2025 21:07 πŸ‘ 199 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

Nice to hear that works for you! I’m okay with the tradeoff of the lock-in for the additional features I want: integrated issue management and CI/CD

21.07.2025 18:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - jaxzin/jaxzin-infra-bootstrap: Bootstrapping, maintenance, and disaster recovery for the core foundation for my home-network Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Bootstrapping, maintenance, and disaster recovery for the core foundation for my home-network Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - jaxzin/jaxzin-infra-bootstrap

Now I can automate for my entire home network safely knowing the source is backed up offsite and a restore is two-button clicks away.

github.com/jaxzin/jaxzi...

#devops #selfhosted #homelab

19.07.2025 02:44 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - jaxzin/jaxzin-infra-bootstrap: Bootstrapping, maintenance, and disaster recovery for the core foundation for my home-network Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Bootstrapping, maintenance, and disaster recovery for the core foundation for my home-network Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - jaxzin/jaxzin-infra-bootstrap

It's not the entire thing, just the "bootstrap kernel", enough to standup or recover a Gitea server (self-hosted GitHub-clone) from cloud backups. Gitea supports GitHub Actions so I can build CI that can run self-hosted or from GitHub.com.

github.com/jaxzin/jaxzi...

#devops #selfhosted #homelab

19.07.2025 02:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - jaxzin/jaxzin-infra-bootstrap: Bootstrapping, maintenance, and disaster recovery for the core foundation for my home-network Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Bootstrapping, maintenance, and disaster recovery for the core foundation for my home-network Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - jaxzin/jaxzin-infra-bootstrap

I'm sharing my personal Infrastructure as Code setup publicly.

github.com/jaxzin/jaxzi...

#devops #selfhosted #homelab

19.07.2025 02:44 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Mario Kart World is amazing.
Online multiplayer Goldeneye exists!
Banjo-Kazooie in my hands.
Tears of the Kingdom looks even better.
So much to love. #Switch2

06.06.2025 03:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Adult money perks, I get to buy a new Nintendo console to fulfill my childhood wishes. I might let my kids play with it too.

05.06.2025 19:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Studio ending with one of my all-time favorite songs was not on bingo card.

21.05.2025 01:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I feel much better, thanks so much

17.05.2025 21:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve had a fever for over a week and it finally broke. I’ll take that win tonight. πŸŽ‰ #bronchitis

16.05.2025 02:42 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

C-3PO thinking R2 has failed and they are hearing Luke’s death screams will never not be peak comedy.

14.05.2025 23:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t mind me, just sobbing at that ending. #Andor

14.05.2025 03:13 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As I was watching it I could see that this week’s episode of The Studio was not going to mention Apple or Tim Cook as a meta-reference to the story. It is so perfect to learn Apple asked to put Tim in there to replace <spoiler> and show leadership refused.

10.05.2025 04:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ending a week of travel watching the first episode of Andor Season 2 and spotted my name. The novelty of having my name in a Star Wars production has not worn off. #pinchme

26.04.2025 02:26 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My part done, my wife likes to do all the painting and caulking!

06.04.2025 23:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My Sunday project on the honey-do list. Faux board and batton in the bedroom. #diy

06.04.2025 19:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

When he said β€œmake America great again” I didn’t realize he meant Great as in Depression.

03.04.2025 14:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I really need to hold my opinion until the end of the season, but I think, I think Daredevil: Born Again might be way better than the original series. I’m loving the big swings so far.

02.04.2025 03:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

…still getting in the car and leaving, and then still not realizing I left my jacket until my wife noticed it wasn’t on its usual hook later in the day.

27.03.2025 05:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The irony of finally getting my ADHD diagnosis today at nearly 47 years of age and promptly leaving the doctor’s office without my favorite jacket, stopping before getting in my car and thinking β€œhmm, it’s cold I don’t know why I didn’t bring my jacket”….

27.03.2025 05:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0