iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

Finally got around to going through uploading my favorite photos from Japan to my flickr, so it looks like I am active there again. Jeff Higgins - Flickr I was very disappointed to find out that Flickr doesn't support HDR photos, which is a real shame, seems the only site that really has the […]

higgy.social

Original post on higgy.social

000

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

It was extra quiet on my commute and in the office this morning. I had to check multiple times on my way in that it was indeed Monday.

010

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

Dammit, I messed up. My internet went down, unusual on its own, but seemed to be an external issue. But as part of my troubleshooting in pfSense I hit the "Release [IP Lease]" button to try and reset the interface, didn't do anything, so I left it in hopes my ISP would sort out their issues […]

higgy.social

Original post on higgy.social

000

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

They shot an episode of Law and Order Toronto in the lounge and park of my building yesterday. I was very excited to find out it was used as the actual crime scene, but sadly most of it was inside, and I wasn't able to see in for most of the day. They did shoot […] [Original post on higgy.social]

A photo of a large window wall, there is a person laying on a white couch inside with red spots on him, and another person hanging on ropes outside the window pretending to be a window washer.

A photo of a small park taken from above. The park is filled with a film crew that consists of many people, a camera crane on a track, small black tents, carts, and various other equipment.

100

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

That's cute. Went to IKEA and they had these fake sticker cards in some of their staged areas. I really apreciate how much they replicated a Presto (transit) and TPL (Library) card without actually cloning them.

A photo of a small shelf with stickers replicating a library and transit card.
The blue library card has the text "Toronto folkbiblic" and the black transit card has the text "SNABBT" and "TRANSITKORT".

021

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

Oh, cool, TIL Yahoo sold Flickr in 2018 to a family owned, non-VC company. I Might have to look into using it again. Especially given how absolute garbage Mastodon is at image hosting, and how few options I've had aside from Google Photos to share images here in decent quality.

110

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

I was intimidated to start this project after I opened the box and saw how complex it was, I haven't built a lego set in years, let alone one this complex, the last one was a little car. I was expecting to just start it today and work on it over a few sessions […] [Original post on higgy.social]

110

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026

OMG, this took SOOO much effort to get setup, but I finally have Matter and Thread support on my networks. Under normal circumstances this really wouldn't be an issue, but I run Home Assistant in my Kubernetes cluster, which is on a different VLAN from my IoT […] [Original post on higgy.social]

110

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

I bit the bullet yesterday and finally got a properly sized air conditioner for my servers. I'm so happy with it. It's been exactly 24 hours and the room is almost 10°c cooler than it has been for the last few weeks, I actually feel cold in there now, just like […] [Original post on higgy.social]

100

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

I found out by accident last night that Unifi Protect accepts controller input for PTZ cameras, which is awesome, I've been wanting some joystick style control for my cameras since I got them. It makes panning around so much more enjoyable, and tracking things so much easier. I discovered this […]

higgy.social

Original post on higgy.social

000

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

TIL Tailscale is based in Toronto, that's awesome, love finding out something I use so heavily is Canadian. Was also looking at their job postings, they have some that are right up my alley, but the pay is 3x what I currently make, which makes me sceptical if I'm even qualified.

A screenshot of a Wikipedia summary section for Tailscale, one entry is circled in red: "Headquarters Toronto, Ontario"

110

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

Every once in a while I'll casually think about the entirety of a system I have setup and it will blow my mind. Just now it was me thinking about how every photo and video I take on my phone gets immediately copied to my NAS via Immich, and then those photos are backed up offsite as well as […]

higgy.social

Original post on higgy.social

000

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

I love seeing diplomatic license plates in the wild. Sadly this is just a Consular, I have yet to see the elusive Diplomat plate (CDx). I've found mixed information on whether the last letter denotes the country it is assigned to, but would love to know what D is if that is the case.

A photo of the back of a sikver Nissan SUV. It has a red license plate with white letters that read "374 CCD".

000

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

The daily incremental backups to my tapes has been working just fine without any issues for the last few days, so maybe the issue is a bad tape and not with the drive itself. The issue is that I feel like multiple different tapes caused the drive to freak out. More testing is necessary.

100

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

One of my favorite statistics from the drive, Lifetime Meters of tape processed, so that is 6,318,826 M of tape. And this value was close to 0 when I got the drive, so in just 3 months it has gone through the incomprehensible amount of tape. For some context Canada is only 5,566,000 M across.

A screenshot of a large list of statistics from a tape drive, one line is highlighted: "Lt Meters Tape Processed 6318826"

010

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

[Flashing gif] Awwww Yeahhhh! Taking apart the drive and manually cleaning the head fixed the problem! I definitly feel like that Jon Hamm gif right now. Hopefully it was just an intermittent issue due to the crazy amount of usage I put it through in January […] [Original post on higgy.social]

100

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026

Just great. Woke up this morning to find that my tape backup last night failed, and after doing some basic troubleshooting the drive is giving error code 6, which is not ideal at all. It likely indicates an issue with the head, but it could be many other things […] [Original post on higgy.social]

A screenshot that has lots of information on it. In red is "Result Code: EC6", and in yellow is "04: Hardware Error" and "0302 Excessive Write Errors".

Full text reads:
"===>>>>>>>>>>>>>> MOUNT_TAPE <<<<<<<<<<<<<<===
START TIME : Fri Apr 24 13:44:13.562 2026
DURATION : 7330 msec
TEST RESULT : ABORTED
RESULT CODE : EC 6
CURRENT PARTITION SIZE : 0
NUMBER WRAPS : 0
NUMBER TRACKS : 0
DENSITY CODE : 0
CARTRIDGE SN :
CARTRIDGE TYPE : Unknown
CARTRIDGE MFG :
CARTRIDGE MFG DATE :
Sense Data Length : 32
Sense Data Byte 0-1 : 70 00
Sense Data Byte 2 SK : 04: Hardware Error
Sense Data Byte 3-11 : 00 00 00 00 58 00 00 00 00
Sense Data Byte 12 ASC+ASCQ : 0302 Excessive Write Errors
Sense Data Byte 14 SCD : 36
Sense Data Byte 15-80 : 00 10 58 00 00 04 03 42 4b 55 50 31 35 4c 00 00 00
TARGET STATUS : Status is not supported
HOST STATUS : Status is not supported
EC : 1117"

BEFORE

An image from a microscope of the head of a tape drive. It looks clean but there are a few small pieces of dust.

AFTER

An image from a microscope of the head of a tape drive.

000

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

Love coming across a Reddit post about a problem, and some of the comments are already upvoted... and then you see a reply from yourself... cool, cool, excellent memorieng me.

110

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

After 1 year, 8 months, and 9 days of being outside taking a photo every 5 mins for a timelapse, and being largely unmaintained (I added a few in-field upgrades such as a relay to restart the camera remotely) I finally took down my timelapse camera. The […] [Original post on higgy.social]

000

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026

Welp, used up one of my 9 lives today... came very close to a life ending event, due to my own stupidity, I left a loaded drill with a nice pointy drill bit on top of a ladder, and then proceeded to move said ladder. The very heavy drill fell and landed right beside me... :mitzi_wtf:

000

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026

It's annoying, I can see notifications coming in from bsky, but I cannot open the app to see them.

000

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026

I don't think I talked about it here but I migrated my docker based cloud provider to K3s the other week. It's a little more expensive (more overheard), but the benefits in management far outweigh that. Anyway, because of that move I had to find an alternative […] [Original post on higgy.social]

100

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026

Oh no... Bambu has a new dual nozzle printer... and it's relatively affordable (when compared to the 3x the price H2D and H2C) Gib pls.

100

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026

I potentially solved my UPS problem, I got another one, but instead of another expensive Eaton UPS I've decided to risk it with the new Unifi UPS despite its mixed reviews. The main reason I decided on it is because it only cost $400, and it is just running my […] [Original post on higgy.social]

100

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

Birthday kitty. She had trouble figuring out to eat one of these tube things, she's not that adventurous for food, but she knew she wanted it. I handed it though, I find the smell of Tuna revolting, and I just about did, I also got a bunch of it on my hand, but she was happy 😸

000

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

Love when watching something set in LA and they throw up a shot of traffic the characters are stuck in and it's definitely Toronto... (the TTC wheel-trans and Beck taxi give it away, also prettysure that's a Canada Cartage truck in the back).

A photo of a TV showing a frame of traffic on a highway.

010

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

I am so fed up with this goddam model, I think this is like the 6th time I've tried to print it, not even exaggerating, I've wasted so much filament on this stupid thing, and I've tried so many different settings. I just gave up on printing it in silk, I think […] [Original post on higgy.social]

100

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

Stopped by the new Canada Computers store again today now that they've had some time to stock up, and that they certainly have. They actually have Bambu filament now, not much, but the essentials. And they do have lots of other filaments as well which I could […] [Original post on higgy.social]

000

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

One of the things I took over as part of the recent reorg are the ESLs (Electronic Shelf Labels) in our stores, there is a _lot_ I don't like about them, and I've tried to avoid them because of that, but I recently came across some flipper zero tools to program […] [Original post on higgy.social]

A photo of various sizes of electronic shelf labels one might find in a store, but instead of showing a price they have various furry and anime characters displayed on them.

100

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2026

Yay, it's discount bunny day! I didn't know that they had Strawberry bunnies this year (I got two of them). (I will neither confirm nor deny that I just spent $100 on chocolate)

A photo of a shelf in a Lindt Chocolate store showing many shelves filled with the golden Lindt bunny.

A photo of a shelf in a Lindt Chocolate store showing many shelves filled with the golden Lindt bunny and various other easter themed chocolate. There is a sign that says "40% off".

000

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

I've spent the last few days migrating my cloud services (secondary email and website hosting) from docker to Kubernetes. I've gone from paying $12/mo for it to $28/mo... just to get Kubernetes, IaC, and gitops... definitely worth it, definitely wouldn't have been more cost effective to find a […]

higgy.social

Original post on higgy.social

110

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

Seriously, again Canadian Mint, I want it, but no You didn't even release a standard coin for this one.

A screenshot of a product listing for a coin: "Moon Mission – 1 oz. Fine Silver Coin $279.95"

000

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

Linus finally dropped the private jet video, and you know I'm a sucker for private jets. Unfortunately, just like the fire truck, I know they're not going to go into as much detail as I'd like. And it's a Falcon, which I'm not a huge fan of (mostly due to their past history with the flight sim […]

higgy.social

Original post on higgy.social

000

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

I thought "Vibe coding" was a derogatory term... did they appropriate it?

A screenshot of a YouTube thumbnail for a video posted by Google called "What is Vibe Coding?"

000

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

I stood at the base of one of Toronto's new super tall skyscrapers today... it big... but I thought it'd be bigger... (I have actually been here before, but last time it hadn't surpassed the neighboring buildings yet)

A wide angle photo of a very tall skyscraper taken from street level looking up.

110

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

Love the eternal struggle of guessing if a site is giving me the price in CAD or USD. Although usually when they don't say it's USD.

010

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

That's cool, not very often these days that a company will LOWER the price of a subscription, especially by $90/yr. Almost suspicious that it's an April 1st thing.

A screenshot of an email that reads: "We’ve lowered the price of your plan Hi Jeff, We have some good news about your Google One Premium (5 TB) plan. We’re lowering the list price from CA$359.99/year to CA$269.99/year."

110

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

Why are all the cool coins always so expensive :blobcatfluffpout:

A screenshot of a product listing for a coin, the description reads "The Calling of an Engineer - Fine Silver Coin (2026) $359.95 NO GST/HSTI*"

110

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

That's cool, the poster with the air date overlay shows on the thumbnail of my remote. It's a little thing but I like it... I think, still not sure if I'm happy having an overly at all, but it sure is handy.

000

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026

Yesterday I migrated Plex from a dedicated VM to Kubernetes. I'm now down to three dedicated VMs left before I've migrated EVERYTHING running on my EWXi/VSAN cluster over to Kubernetes. The first one is easy, it's a Windows server running DNS. I haven't decided what DNS server I want to go […]

higgy.social

Original post on higgy.social

000

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026

Corridor's latest video was really cool. I've known about Gaussian Spats for a while thanks to past videos from Corridor and Tested, but I love seeing all the other uses for it. Probably highly relevant to @syrusdrake, especially the historical preservation parts. THIS is the Biggest Thing […]

higgy.social

Original post on higgy.social

000

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026

It's not often that I stop and appreciate something on a website. Today it is the new 3D viewer on Ubiquiti's website, they have glare on the screen... I don't think it would be that difficult technically, but it's that somebody thought about it. I think this […] [Original post on higgy.social]

000

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026

There's this developer at work that I've been tangentially working with and I keep having to explain the most basic and fundamental kubernetes concepts to them. It was fine at first, but it's starting to get a little annoying now. Also after reviewing their helm chart and deployment pipelines I […]

higgy.social

Original post on higgy.social

000

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

One of these was printed with the 0.4 nozzle and took 3 hours, the other two with the 0.2 nozzle and took 12 hours... I can barely tell a difference sadly... I was hoping I'd see more of an improvement, even something really. And the two 0.2 prints ended up having print issues too.

100

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

When I first saw the fluff I was about 10 hours into a 12 hour print, decided to let it continue. The bottom surface turned out less than ideal for sure. Since the print only uses 13g of filament I decided to try again, even if it does take 12 hours to print. Sadly it resulted in the same issue.

000

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

I've avoided setting up Kometa (formally Plex meta manager) for so long because I really don't like the idea of adding extra things to the posters in my Plex library, it's just useless clutter imo... but I've gotten fed up with having to go through shows to try […] [Original post on higgy.social]

000

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

Just noticed my cat finally somehow ripped a hole in her litter box's liner... on one hand I could get a replacement liner for C$100, after all I did choose this brand because their proven history of offering replacement parts... but on the other hand I could […] [Original post on higgy.social]

000

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2026

Yikes, I spent some time to improve the monitoring of the energy dashboard in Home Assistant to get it working properly (a few of the sensors weren't reporting proper metrics). And I knew my servers used a lot of power, but not 80% of all the power I use... And […] [Original post on higgy.social]

000

Jeff Higgins @jeff.higgy.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2026

O M G... I can buy a crane... I want a crane... cranes are cool...

A Facebook marketplace listing for a 2007 Terex rt665 for $196,000.
Description
One used 2007 Terex RT665 #15214
Maximum capacity of 65 tons
36'-111' foot telescopic 4 section full power boom

110