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Aaron Crowder

Hi, I'm Aaron Crowder. Or—if you know me online—CrowderSoup.

Father of two, Software developer, and lover of the open web. I like to take things apart (and sometimes even put them back together). I can frequently be found tinkering with some bit of code in my spare time.

Pronouns: He/Him, They/Them

My Home Server Talks Back Now

A while back I wrote about building a home server. That post was all Docker containers, DNS, and reverse proxies. The foundation. This post is about what I've started building on that foundation, and it's a little different: the box now does things for me every morning, and I can talk to it from my phone. The goal I gave myself was loose: an always-on box that smartly automates my life. My laptop isn't always on, so it can't be the thing that runs scheduled jobs. The server is, so that's wher...

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