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Jetson nano New Years Eve AI fun

When I started working at NVIDIA we were given some money to buy things at the employee store. Rather than buy tshirt swag, I right away bought a jetson nano. I've been playing with it off and on in the year in a half since I've been here. So here's a nice project I did to end 2025: A simple app that recognizes people and greets them with a nice sounding voi

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P90X - 20 Years Later - Where are they now?

Tony Horton Creator of P90X Around March of this year (2024) I had time off before starting a new job. When you are a man in your 40s, what better way to spend that time than to try to get in shape? None of the new programs out there today do anything for me like P90X did for me years ago. Apple Fitness+, Peloton, YouTube videos etc. They are all for people

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Setting up reverse proxies on nginx ingress controller on Kubernetes

In another installment of stupid Kubernetes routing tricks I bring you the following problem: I'm have a website running on webflow. Which for some reason still doesn't support hosting .well-known routes. It turns out, we really need those. I have most the rest of my subdomains in Kubernetes. So I figured the thing to do is to just use Kubernetes as a revers

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Stupid SSH Tricks

Tunnels, proxies, jump hosts, and the useful commands that kept working long after I forgot why I needed them.

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