A month ago, I put in an order for a new machine that I had waited all year for - the Intel NUC 12 Enthusiast.| kevinquillen.com
Putting Hoi to useIn my last post I mentioned releasing a small project in Rust called Hoi, a task runner meant for collaboration or personal use. Since then I was able to add a few more features, nearing a point which I consider 'feature complete': KevinMay 22nd, 2025| kevinquillen.com - Still coding. Still rocking. Still ranting.
Hoi, a command line task runner built with RustDuring covid lockdowns I had several projects in my spare time to keep me busy. One of them was teaching myself to learn how to read sheet music. Another was building an LCD screen marquee of data powered by a Raspberry Pi 3. One was to learn how to write my own programming language using the book "Crafting Interpreters" by Robert Nystrom. The book uses Java I believe as a teaching tool, but I wanted to learn Rust and do it that way. KevinMay 7...| kevinquillen.com - Still coding. Still rocking. Still ranting.
Bruno, a great new API client for developmentFor many years, Postman was a tool of choice for me when testing APIs while in development. It was a quick way to construct HTTP requests of any type and probe responses, test auth, things of that nature. It made quick work of figuring out how to design consumers, client wrappers and objects in Drupal to work with data structures from APIs. However over the years Postman took some odd turns that makes it largely unusable for me, especially on Linux...| kevinquillen.com - Still coding. Still rocking. Still ranting.
Three years of automated Drupal core updatesWe're coming up on almost three years of automated Drupal core updates for my personal site. KevinMarch 1st, 2025| kevinquillen.com - Still coding. Still rocking. Still ranting.
It has been perhaps the 3 busiest months of my life between bidding on homes, closing, and moving. Despite my best efforts and planning, there was a lot more work and logistics than I had anticipated.| kevinquillen.com
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Librarian - the Chrome browser plugin that helps manage stale bookmarksToday I published my first ever browser plugin for Google Chrome - Librarian. KevinJuly 29th, 2025| kevinquillen.com - Still coding. Still rocking. Still ranting.
In my last post on running Ollama in my home, I detailed how I repurposed an Intel NUC as a mini-server to host Ollama, Docker services, Fedora Server, pi‑hole, and more (kevinquillen.com| kevinquillen.com
5 years ago I decided to get a Raspberry Pi Zero W and install Pi-Hole on it for blocking bad traffic on our network. It worked incredibly well.| kevinquillen.com
Forticlient seems to have a lot of issues working correctly on Fedora and/or SAML required setups (where you complete the auth in an external browser). The best I can get from the error logs is that the connection was terminated. Fortinets support of Linux is not the best.| kevinquillen.com