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February 11, 2020

A couple weeks ago I was running my Wanhao Duplicator i3 to make some parts for a project (more details coming soon!) and was greeted with the acrid smell of burning plastic. After opening up the printer and poking about, I determined that the culprits were two terminals that had shorted out.

I did some research and it turns out that this is actually a relatively common problem for 3D printers. The terminals short out because they aren't rated for the current that is drawn by the hotbed. In my case, the terminals for both the hotbed and the extruder had shorted out.

January 26, 2020

Now that I have TLS set up for this website, I figured that it was time to see how secure it really is. I stumbled upon the tool "Security Headers" and was disappointed to see that I scored an F. I had never heard of security headers before, but decided that I wanted to implement them after doing some research.

After some failures attempting to use Netlify and Caddy, I discovered that Cloudflare has workers that could set up the headers. I highly recommend Scott Helme’s article on the matter.

January 21, 2020

This is my first experience with hosting a website – I decided that I want a place to write about my projects and this is the result.

On the technical side of things, I am hosting this website through Jekyll on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B. I was drawn to the ability to write my posts in markdown and Jekyll’s community of creators. I am using ClouDNS for DNS hosting. My TLS protection is provided by Cloudflare.