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Building a Media Center For Your Mom Part 8 - Networking & Mobile Access
0 comments 0 Min ReadLet's say your mom asks you to build her one of those "movie streaming" thingies she's heard about. You know how complicated these things can be, so you want to build something that is self-contained, simple, and requires zero user input.
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Building a Media Center For Your Mom Part 7 - Emby/Plex Setup
0 comments 4 Min ReadStep-by-step instructions for building a reliable and scalable local media center that will scale as large as your house will allow (and beyond).
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Building a Media Center For Your Mom Part 6 - Radarr Setup and Config
0 comments 6 Min ReadStep-by-step instructions for building a reliable and scalable local media center that will scale as large as your house will allow (and beyond).
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WSL and Vagrant and Virtualbox and YOU!
0 comments 4 Min ReadWindows Subsystem for Linux is awesome. Introduced with Windows 10, it lets you (sort of) natively run Ubuntu inside of Windows without a VM. It's great, but there there are still some major pains in getting a dev environment working.
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Building a Media Center For Your Mom Part 5 - Sonarr Setup and Config
0 comments 6 Min ReadStep-by-step instructions for building a reliable and scalable local media center that will scale as large as your house will allow (and beyond).
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Building a Media Center For Your Mom Part 4 - NZBGet Setup
0 comments 6 Min ReadNZBGet, the heart of the operation. Let's get it setup and running.
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Building a Media Center For Your Mom Part 3 - Synology & Docker
0 comments 3 Min ReadIt's time to get that Synology NAS set up, and do a little exploring with Docker.
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EE Add-On Upgrade - Primary Category
0 comments 2 Min ReadIn this series of posts, I pick an old add-on and update it to work in newer versions of EE. Not because I want to, but because I have to.
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Building a Media Center For Your Mom Part 2 - Hardware and Accounting
0 comments 5 Min ReadBefore we start building anything, we're gonna need hardware. Specifically, we need a NAS to serve files, hard drives to put in the NAS, and a tv-attached playback device. We'll also need to set up the external accounts that will link everything t...
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Building a Media Center For Your Mom Part 1 - Introduction
0 comments 2 Min ReadLet's say your mom asks you to build her one of those "movie streaming" thingies she's heard about. You know how complicated these things can be, so you want to build something that is self-contained, simple, and requires zero user input.
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Adding Disqus Comment Count to Jekyll
0 comments 3 Min ReadI had some trouble initially setting up comment counts for Disqus. Turns out my mistake was actually pretty small, but it screwed me up for awhile. Here's the process that worked for me.
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Holiday Prepping like a Boss
0 comments 1 Min ReadMy local Indigo has Santa hats and lights up in all the windows, and my tongue is already numb from the Starbucks sugar-bomb known as the Toasted White Chocolate Mocha...
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Adding Disqus Comments to Jekyll
0 comments 1 Min ReadStraight-forward process to add Disqus comments to your Jekyll blog posts.
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Building a Web Presence (with Jekyll)!
0 comments 1 Min ReadThe site is now completely moved over to [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/). This is my first time building a blog with jekyll, and for the most part it was surprisingly idiot-proof. Plus, not having to deal with a paid CMS is a small blessing.