Self Hosted Period Tracking App For Menstruation 🩸️

Overview

I've been meaning to make this video for a while now as it's a subject im pretty happy about, we took our own stance against company collection of menstrual data and created our own self hosted period application using my database, appsmith, and cloud flare tunnels and now we have complete ownership and control of our data and insights that no company will have access to.

Timestamps

• 0:00:40 This video is about periods
• 0:02:12 The app infrastructure
• 0:03:28 The application in all its glory
• 0:06:45 App views data table and analytics
• 0:08:48 Daily Digest Notifications of Menstrual Cycle Phases
• 0:12:13 Grow Up
• 0:13:17 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vCP4HJGB8fZFG0ZlvbeWVikga7mxQGlSkRI9VDO8M3o/edit?usp=sharing
• 0:14:02 Outro

📱️2024 My Top Applications For ADHD 🧠️

Overview

It's been a while since i've made a "top apps ..." video and i've gotten some new ones in the workflow lately. Thunderbird has been ESPECIALLY helpful to me in dealing with the overwhelm that is modern email.

xTiles has been a very unique and interesting alternative to notion in organization, and consolidation of information.

And morgen is of course a timeless classic

Timestamps

• 0:00:23 App Number 01 Mozilla Thunderbird For Email
• 0:11:46 App Number 02 xTiles
• 0:12:44 I dont care for Notion
• 0:14:02 Hierarchichal Model of Organization
• 0:15:23 Page Types
• 0:19:34 Universal Rollup View of Tasks and Calendars Items
• 0:23:46 Dark mode
• 0:24:05 Plain Text Interoperability
• 0:27:06 App Number 03 Morgen
• 0:30:26 Closing
• 0:30:47 Outro

🏥️ My Quantifiable Life - Health Data Homelab 🖥️

Overview

Now that i've finally made my homelab tour, i have teased about this project before in the past but this is me finally putting it together and showing off the results of a lot of my hard work to consolidate and organize ALL of my health data from every source i can get it from into my centralized database for reporting.

believe me, there was a LOT of work that went into this setup and im very proud of it and what it will allow me to do now and in the future. Let me know what you think in a comment on the video!

Timestamps

• 0:00:00 we're talking about today
• 0:00:42 My crazy health metrics dashboard
• 0:01:17 What are the data sources for my health dashboard
• 0:01:50 add icon for meditation app
• 0:01:52 macro factor icon
• 0:03:53 Where are we centralizing all of this data
• 0:04:23 Apple Health main data table
• 0:06:28 Apple Health symptoms table
• 0:07:03 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL
• 0:07:23 Exporting Apple Health Data with Auto Export
• 0:09:20 The n8n webhook receiving Apple Health data
• 0:11:36 Apple Health data migraine inducing first iteration
• 0:14:34 Oura Ring Biometrics Data
• 0:19:57 Strong App Workout Data
• 0:21:36 Cronjob that picks up the exported file
• 0:23:24 Grafana Displaying new data after n8n process
• 0:28:03 The Grafana Dashboard displays for strong app data
• 0:29:43 Digitizing my historic workout logs
• 0:33:27 My Annual Summary Grafana Dashboard
• 0:35:12 In closing why the heck did i do all of this
• 0:36:32 Outro

Bryan Jenks Homelab Services Tour 2024 🖥️

Overview

I've wanted to make a homelab tour video for a long time, my homelab and what i've learned with it is a project near and dear to me. I have a lot of fun playing with services and automations and building my own apps and custom code, as well as just documenting things and wiring it all together. Home-labbing is FUN, and i love doing it and wanted to share with you what i've done so far in the lab :)

Timestamps

• 0:00:35 What is going on with this server rack
• 0:01:08 Network Topology Diagram
• 0:03:13 Current project impediments and the current plan
• 0:04:41 Topology Continued
• 0:06:32 TrueNAS Network Attached Storage
• 0:10:08 Proxmox Hypervisor
• 0:13:16 Postgres Debian VM
• 0:14:38 CARD health video when it drops
• 0:14:49 Portainer Debian VM Docker Host
• 0:16:24 Portainer Stacks For All Containers
• 0:19:29 Docker Hosted Services Tour
• 0:19:40 Organizer Dashboard
• 0:20:15 Linkwarden Bookmarks
• 0:20:34 Planka Kanban Boards
• 0:25:00 Network Grouping
• 0:25:33 Media Grouping
• 0:26:09 Overseer Media Requestor
• 0:27:11 Photoprism Photo Management
• 0:29:33 Kavita Reader
• 0:31:08 Ubiquiti Grouping
• 0:32:27 Container Management Grouping
• 0:32:35 Another Look At Portainer
• 0:33:38 Dozzle Docker Log Viewer
• 0:34:21 Data Grouping
• 0:35:11 Grafana Dashboards
• 0:36:12 NocoDB
• 0:36:33 Utilities Grouping
• 0:37:21 Prometheus
• 0:38:52 Healthchecks
• 0:40:04 Services Grouping
• 0:40:07 File Browser
• 0:41:56 Drawio Diagraming
• 0:42:16 Wikijs For Documentation
• 0:45:22 n8n Workflow Automation
• 0:51:39 Appsmith Custom Applications
• 0:51:57 The Period Tracking Service I Made For My Fiance
• 0:56:07 Sushi Data Application Idea
• 0:56:58 Home Management Grouping
• 0:57:09 Grocy Grocery Management
• 0:58:26 Wrapping Up
• 1:00:34 Outro

🌱️ Dendron: A Unique Approach To Knowledge Management 🌱️

Dendron is one of my favorite ways to taking notes on technical content now.

It takes advantage of a lot of the great work that has already gone into the VSCode IDE but also the existing extension eco-system.

Where dendron can't do something, there is likely an awesome extension that can.

This is now my go-to way of taking notes of structured and factual content unlike my Zettelkasten that is more of my personal take, ideas, and conjecture on topics.

Dendron makes the organization of notes via the schemas and dot hierarchies an absolute dream and the ease of refactoring a hierarchy makes the management of a lot of this information infinitely easier. I have hundreds of notes now and its just an absolute pleasure to work with Dendron with that content.

0:00:00 Welcome
0:00:36 What we are talking about today www.dendron.so
0:01:16 Into
0:01:26 My experience with Dendron
0:03:49 How and why dendron might fit into your workflow
0:12:37 Getting Started With Dendron and VSCode
0:16:41 Panes and Interfaces in Dendron
0:30:49 The dendron command palette
0:38:17 Languages Used in Dendron
0:39:23 Ways to use Markdown and extended features in dendron
0:41:15 Schemas and heirarchies
0:43:02 The Dendron Graph
0:46:09 Robust Linking
0:48:08 How to organize all your notes when there are too many
0:51:34 Refactoring hierarchies
0:52:20 Create schema from note
1:03:38 My personal schemas
1:03:48 daily note schema
1:06:00 Task schema
1:06:26 My software notes schema
1:08:53 YAML in Dendron
1:11:00 Templates and Code Snippets
1:17:46 Dynamic Variables Inside of Templates
1:19:43 Tags and Links in Dendron
1:23:19 Tasks and Task Management in Dendron
1:28:21 Dendrons global configuration file
1:30:29 Task schema
1:35:03 Dendron Pods
1:40:49 Configuring the pod
1:45:00 Leveraging VSCode as a platform
1:47:51 Dendron Publishing
1:48:33 https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/FnK2ws6w1uaS1YzBUY3BR/
1:50:23 My Dendron Workflow
2:06:02 Closing
2:07:06 Outro

My Home-lab Server Rack Tour ( It’s Taller Than Me! ) 🖥️

This project all started from passing my CompTIA Network+ certification.

I found that i really liked the idea of networking and servers, running my own services, and monitoring the entire environment from the ground up.

Since posting this videos ive acquired even more resources, hardware, knowledge, and interest in my home-lab.

This is an introductory tour to what i currently have in the home-lab but as of this blog post it's only improved and grown from there.

I have big plans for the services and things i will be running on this server and the databases i'll have to collect and store my own personal data and i hope to document all of it via publicly acessible code, but also via youtube videos talking about the technology.

Interested in more of what im doing around this stuff? Check out my DevLog notes from the dropdown in the Banner at the top of the page!

00:00 INTRO
00:18 INTRO TALK
01:08 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL
01:28 SERVER
03:57 SERVER RACK
06:22 SERVER RACK DETAILS
09:22 SERVER RACK REVIEW
10:13 MULTI STAGE PLAN
13:07 REVIEW
17:45 CLOSING
18:56 OUTRO