Author: Max Jacoby

  • Electric Bike Conversion Kit

    Electric Bike Conversion Kit

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    In 2019 I strapped an RC plane motor to my bike and powered it with a Makita drill battery. It worked out pretty well.

  • CNC Isogrids

    CNC Isogrids

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    In October 2022 I got a small CNC router. To test it out and push it’s limits I decided to try out Winston Moy’s isogrid coasters. I designed the coasters in Solidworks – very similar to Winston’s but adapted to the stock I had. I then used Solidwork’s built in CAM tools to generate tool…

  • Raku Fired Ceramics

    Raku Fired Ceramics

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    In 2019 I had the unique opportunity to throw my own pots, and fire them in a Raku kiln. Raku firing is a traditional Japanese pottery firing technique, typically involving removing the pottery from the kiln while it’s red-hot and placing it into a container filled with combustible materials, which ignite upon contact with the…

  • Very Okayish Wireguard Performance – What Am I Doing Wrong?

    Very Okayish Wireguard Performance – What Am I Doing Wrong?

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    I’ve been obsessing over this on and off for about a month, and I just cant seem to figure it out. The situation is as follows: public internet ———-> VPS <====WG Tunnel====> pfSense ———-> LAN/Server I have a Wireguard tunnel set up to route all traffic between my pfSense LAN and a VPS. This means…

  • Tom Dick & Harry Website

    Tom Dick & Harry Website

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    Project Goal: Replatform an e-commerce shop from the current cloud hosting solution to an on-prem WordPress deployment. I would be taking control of every aspect – essentially assuming the role of a full stack developer. Taking months of planning, testing, migrating, designing and tweaking, this was one of the most complex and lengthy projects I…

  • sh1tpixels

    sh1tpixels

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    sh1tpixels is yet another sub-brand of Errant Minds. I created the Instagram account in 2018 as a place to show off the renders and animations I was making at the time. During School, one of my main pastimes outside of the classroom was playing with software like Cinema 4D, Maya, Houdini and various render engines…

  • Flint & Steel Sound System – V3.0 Build Photo Dump

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    All the photos I took while I was building a Paraflex 15 C2-D kick and a 2×18″ type O.

  • Flint & Steel Sound System

    Flint & Steel Sound System

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    Flint & Steel Sound System has been one of my passion projects since 2022. Starting out as a single Cubo 15 subwoofer, I focused my energy on building a full stack during 2023. I’m now on V3.0 – the culmination of all my knowledge thus far. A double 18″ sub, 15″ kick and a coaxially…

  • Weird Network Problems in XCP-NG

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    I have no idea what is going on. I’m getting consistently inconsistent throughput and latency issues. This is a post to collect my findings so far… Not very interesting to anyone else but me. Ping via PIFs: No problems there. Pings between VMs, using VIFs: Not terrible, but not amazing. Throughput tested with iperf3: Throughput…

  • MySQL Benchmarks – NFS vs Local Storage

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    Recently, I migrated my containers from a standalone Docker node to Docker Swarm. On the standalone node I used a local VHD for persistent storage, but now I’m using NFS Docker volumes defined in the compose file. I knew I’d take a slight performance hit serving the files over NFS, but I was happy to…