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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 14/01/2026

Some of the Fluent 2 icon updates have freshy-fun feelz.

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 22/12/2025

Tell me again that CSS is not programming.

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 18/09/2025

Home.techDebt.reduce(). Seriously, containers on the pi (4 8GB and above), are where it's at. Unifi, Pi-hole, Node-RED, Prometheus, Grafana, and a couple of custom apps all run great on one pi. Add Portainer for management, and keep a spare pi for SD card-swap failover, done. It's loafing:

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 18/09/2025

Running your Unifi Controller app under portainer.io on a Raspberry Pi makes upgrades a three-click affair. With linuxserver/unifi-network-application:latest as your image, click "Recreate" on the container menu, check the "Re-pull image" option on the confirm dialog, and that's it. Done in 30 secs.

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 09/09/2025

The enshittification of search marches on. Check my EV for a loose gas cap, Roger.

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 06/09/2025

Well that was a nice little Lancer (B-1) Austin flyover. GE F101 quartet, no reheat. www.reddit.com/r/Austin/com...

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 05/09/2025

AI enshittification may break the attention stranglehold of media, social and otherwise. They can’t help themselves destroy their own platforms following dreams of empty desks. That, or AI knows we need to go outside.

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 10/08/2025

Google Fiber watch, day 3,752. Bootstrappy neighbor identifying missing box work to complete the conduit. After this they blow the fiber down the conduits.

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 17/07/2025

Cloudflare's global, hourlong DNS outage Monday was a reminder to use a completely different provider for your secondary. blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1...

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 20/06/2025

Point of sale has irrupted

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 09/06/2025

When AI builds your plane. What even is this?

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 06/05/2025

Near stationary line, blowing up in Gonzales, likely delighting the meteorology geeks in Aggieland

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 03/05/2025

ITOps classic: false alert in a maintenance window. 😂

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 08/04/2025

Interesting #homelab issue today. 1) My 11 yo #Synology DS1515+ hard died, but I popped the drives in the same order into a DS923+ and it came right up because, Synology is awesome. 💯 but.. 2) #Unifi wouldn't hand out a DHCP lease because its US8 switch needed a power cycle.. what? 🤔

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 20/03/2025

How’s your day? Here’s a pic of my laptop assistant in case you’re looking for something similarly agentic.

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 18/03/2025

How many years does it take for something to become a tradition? Ex: First day of Spring Break == Rodeo Austin. Perfect weather helps. 🎡🎢🍬🐂🥤

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 05/03/2025

Shouldn’t all AI responses be processed with the same filter?

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 28/02/2025

Every time AT&T sends email pushing “giga” in my central metro neighborhood: 🤣🤣🤣

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 28/02/2025

If you haven’t tried a breakfast taco in a boat, you’re missing out. #austin

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 27/02/2025

The average CPU temp of my daily driver. It's what you get when you multiply six by nine.

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 25/02/2025

Me: "I really do need to finish migrating to gmail." Yahoo's new UX: "Here's your sign."

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 20/02/2025

TIL that Chrome's tab UI performance (click events, closing tabs etc.) degrades when the Windows Download folder is packed. If Chrome is slow, try cleaning up your downloads.

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 13/02/2025

Spectrum gonna Spectrum. Meanwhile Elmolink keeps chugging.

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 13/02/2025

Literally chatting with my wife this morning about canceling the Starlink backup $$ for WAN2, and Spectrum is here to remind us to keep paying Elmo if we want to work.

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 10/02/2025

Is 10¢ rounding too much? As long as they’re taking unusable coins out of circulation, finish the job?

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 07/02/2025

It's a good Friday on Teams. Have a great weekend, butterfly friends. 🏖️

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 04/02/2025

Squeeee. The new @evilmopacatx.bsky.social logo merch is here. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 30/01/2025

<Sigh> Still, maybe pause the life lessons for a spell?

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 19/01/2025

Shout out to all the Girl Scout parents freezing this weekend at cookie booths. It’ll make their day if you pick up a box or two where you see them.

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 18/01/2025

Oh hai me, back at the house. 7Mbps VPN home via ✈️ 📡

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 15/01/2025

You’d think “seated polar bear with tuxedo cat coat pattern” would be easy. Nope. Also don’t ask why anyone would want such a thing.

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 10/01/2025

You know you shouldn't, and yet, shipment details. #raspberrypi

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 28/12/2024

Rule #35 There is Funko of it. No exceptions.

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 27/12/2024

Random: v1 Ensoniq Mirage sampler form the early 80s. Most random: under a table in a Tupelo, MS music store.

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 17/12/2024

Y’all, Local Vintage is no joke. Tees aren’t cheap, but the invoice is actual dot-matrix, fan-fold, traction feed. Classic packaging rolls too. And the designs hit those sweet, sweet nostalgia buttons. localvyntage.com

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 17/12/2024

Watching the new 183 Express ramps build further and further south onto @evilmopacatx.bsky.social, its evil plan at Steck is becoming apparent. Road was teasing us years ago, placing its own Express lane entrance south of Far West. It knew…

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 12/12/2024

Which one of you is throwing "Rolling face at Discothèque RGB" prompts at #sora?

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 12/12/2024

THIS is how you 200 500. view-source:

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 07/12/2024

It would appear that the Great Walgreens Interactive Marketing Sinage Doors Experiment has come to an ignominious end.

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 03/12/2024

Hey there @averytomascowx.bsky.social 👋 300+ Cu con follower growth in 24 hours. Hail yes!

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 28/11/2024

iPhone camera trying harder than necessary to capture intense blue of desert sky today.

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 28/11/2024

Happy thanksgiving everyone. May your meal assistants find joy and satisfaction washing up.

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 27/11/2024

Miss 16, observing large Vegas hotel design: “It’s sort of.. Mega Plastic Italian Renaissance.”

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Patrick Hubbard @ferventgeek.com · 26/11/2024

Strange watching OnStar report my Bolt’s heart transplant in real time. 🔋🔋🔋⚡️

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