Fridge Bottle Rack

Home, Bangkok, Thailand, 2022-06-17 21:41 +0700

#3dprinting

Earlier this year I solved the problem of untidy drinking water bottles in my refridgerator - here’s how

Updated Grafana Dashboard for pfSense Network Activity

Home, Bangkok, Thailand, 2022-06-11 18:52 +0700

#infrastructure #observability

 

During the week an engineer from France reached out to me via LinkedIn asking if I could share the Grafana dashboard for pfSense that I screenshotted in my post on connecting Prometheus to pfSense via SNMP. As it happens I’ve just been making updates to that dashboard so it’s a good time to share the code and explain how to adapt it.

Google Pixel 3A XL Phone Stand

Home, Bangkok, Thailand, 2022-01-16 17:07 +0700

#gear #3dprinting

I’ve been playing with alternative phone platforms on and off for a few months now and I’m pretty much ready to make my Google Pixel 3A XL running GrapheneOS my daily driver, so I need a couple of stands for it - one for my bedside and one for my desk.

Librespeed Prometheus Exporter

Home, Bangkok, Thailand, 2021-11-28 15:22 +0700

#infrastructure #observability

This weekend I put together a Prometheus exporter to wrap the librespeed-cli. This is an alternative to the Ookla speedtest-cli which I’ve been using until now with the advantages that it is open-source, and you can run your own private speedtest servers using the companion librespeed / speedtest project.

I'm Bren, a software engineer in Bangkok, Thailand. I love building things, especially software but also tinker with hardware, audio engineering, 3D printing and other media. I am a Principal Cloud Architect at AWS where I help enterprises in the region build things too.

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