My new Toy: Wink Hub 2
Picked up Wink Hub 2 last week. Pretty good as compared to Samsung Smartthings which is going back to Amazon.
Year: 2016
Installing Nest Thermostat
Replaced the old thermostat with the smart Nest thermostat. Had always been wanting a smart thermostat and after we bought the house, it was the perfect opportunity to get it. The previous thermostat used to be an Aprilaire thermostat. I believe it also controlled a humidifier. However, there is no central humidifier I could find, therefore, it was only to …
Installing Wire Shelving in the Closets
Old house and extremely limited shelving in Closets, sounds familiar right? Well, I decided to take care of storage by installing shiny new wire shelving in all the 3 closets we have in the house. Here are some photos of the Master Bedroom closet. I know what you are thinking, it’s so tiny! Yes Sir or Madam, this is an …
Fixing water damaged base of Under the Sink Cabinet & Garbage Disposal install
Had a water damaged base of the Under the sink Cabinet. As a result, it was sagging and couldn’t support anything on it. I decided to replace it. It turned out to be a great small project. Bonus: also ended up installing a new Garbage disposal!
Vik the Plumber
Yes! I installed new cold water line for our fridge. All my crimps were good. Very happy to get it right first time.
Moving Day!
Moving day finally arrived! Going to our first house together. So excited…
We are home owners now
We bought a house! It’s in Fort Wayne, IN. Built in 1912, it’s in the historical district of zip code 46807! A traditional American Foursquare!
House hunting
We are house hunting. This will be our first house bought together.
Custom Docker image for PHP
I created a custom docker image for PHP that includes following: Custom PHP.ini file correct timezone configured Apache mod_rewrite enabled PHP PDO MySQL extension installed You can access it here. …and click here for Dockerfile link
My Site is now on Docker containers
My site and this blog is now completely on Docker containers. I really like the setup and it wasn’t too difficult to achieve. This will help me reduce my physical server to bare minimums required to keep Docker containers running. Docker is amazing and truly revolutionary!