Vacuum on jfx's site

Moving to Podman Quadlets

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Prelude

My personal website & blog is jfx.ac where I blog about once a month

That was a lie, where have I been? I got back from a holiday, moved to a MacBook at work, switched to GrapheneOS, caught the flu, and have been trying out Linux on some interesting mini PCs. Too many distractions, and I hope to get back into my blogging routine.

Introduction

For the past few years I’ve been using Podman containers to run most of my services. Before moving to containers, I would install services via a package manager, or build them from source, and run the binaries and manage the lifecycle with systemd services.

Robot vacuum hacking

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Important Notice

I’m writing this post to give a lens into robot hacking and the work being done by the community. This is not aimed to sell the idea of hacking your robot.

Please do your research and understand the goals and risks of hacking your robot before you try.

Introduction

This is a long post on things I wish I knew earlier about hacking robot vacuums. This is not a replacement for existing documentation or help guides. If you only care about rooting your robot and freeing it for the cloud and don’t care about how the robot works, chances are this post won’t be that helpful to you.