Life, Liberty and DIY

BudDIY Podcast – Episode 120 – Incubating Chicken Eggs

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Incubating eggs is that next step to providing a full service of chickens on your own homestead. It is great because you can get chickens ever year and you don’t have to keep buying them. Plus if some pandemic happens, new avian flu, you can still get chickens, with good biosecurity.

This is something I have wanted to learn for a long time and I always thought there was some deep complicated thing about it. Turns out it is pretty simple. Check out this weeks episode as I talk about what it takes to incubate eggs.

I also talk a bit about new projects, and some interesting lessons along the way.

BudDIY Podcast – Episode 118 – We Fenced in a Garden

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Keeping predators out of your hen house is a good idea, but sometimes you need to keep the hens out of the garden.

One problem that we have had with this round of chickens is they like to jump out of our fencing. Which during the day is fine and does not matter. However, they also like to get into our garden.

So we decided to put up some fencing to see if it keeps them out. Plus it might even help keep other animals out as well which has been annoying.

BudDIY Podcast – Episode 117 – More Personal Finance

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Sometimes when we are doing life we get stuck in the doing, and let the part that makes the gears of life move, personal finance.

Doing well with money is an annoyingly critical part of life, and is deeply personal. Which is why it is call personal finance.

Living by a personal set of principals and thinking out how you will react to life in those stressful situations can help set you up for long term success.

In this episode I talk about my personal history, the good and the bad. Also discuss how I view money and what I try to do to keep the wheels of life from not falling off.

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Episode 116 – Ran Internet to My Office

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My internet card got punched and I lost my internet. However, there was a rebound and I was able to get a new service to my house, but I needed internet to my office.

In this episode I talk through how I got internet to my office. The process I went through. The things I bought and what I did to make it all work. Even why I made a few of the decisions along the way.

BudDIY Podcast – Episode 115 – Smoothing 3D Prints

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The keyboard is finally done. It has been an intersting couple of weeks finishing it, butI have learned a lot so that my next projects go better.

I did paint my 3D Printed case and attempted to get a nice smooth finish. I was mostly successful so in today’s episode I will talk about that plus some other craziness going on in life.

BudDIY Podcast – Episode 114 – Redox Keyboard is Working

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A couple of months ago I found out you can build your own keyboard, and it started me down a journey that lead me to building a keyboard of my own.

In this episode I will walk through the experience of researching, buying, and building the keyboard.

It was an interesting experience to say the least so give this episode a listen to find out more as a precursor to a build video I plan to produce and put out.

Episode 112 – 5 Experiences Learning Blender

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If you want to 3d print your own products you need to learn how to do some 3d modeling. Since I have some time off work that is what I am doing.

This week I have worked quite a bit learning blender, and it has been quite the exeperience. I feel like I am on the right track.

So listen to this episode for the top 5 experiences and thoughts I have had this week while learning blender.

BudDIY Podcast – Episode 111 – What I learned in My Job Interviews

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I finally got a job, but it was a greulling process of interviews. I finally made it through, and learn a ton of stuff along the way.

In this episode I walk you through what I went through to get a Sr. Software Engineering job. Things I learned from the process, and what I would do differently if I had to do it all over again.

Finally, I touch on what I did not like in the process, and did not enjoy. Plus what is my new job?