Outdoor Kitchen Island
Designing and building a steel-framed, brick-clad outdoor kitchen island with a built-in Big Green Egg, sink, and cedar slat storage
Nicky Semenza
Projects, build logs, photography, and a concert ledger by Nicky Semenza — software engineer and hands-on builder in San Francisco.
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Backyard Renovation
Transforming the backyard with new hardscaping, irrigation, planting, and outdoor living spaces
Kitchen Renovation
A full kitchen renovation in an 1886 house.
Shoe Rack Cabinet
A custom wood shoe cabinet for the entryway, modeled in Fusion 360 before it was built.
SF Streets Map & Frame
Every street in San Francisco rendered from GIS data with Python, then set in a stained birch frame and cut mat board.
Vinyl Record Storage
Vinyl Record Storage
Half Bath Renovation
Half Bath Renovation
DIY mason jar spice rack
I have quite a plethora of different spices that I actually do use on a regular basis - within a given week i'd say I use about 20 or so different onces. I buy…
Roast Potatoes with Guajillo Chili Oil
Perhaps the only trait I exhibit from my Irish heritage is my love for potatoes. I usually season my potatoes with dryer spices, and maybe some citrus juice,…
Thai Wok Fried Noodles
This is somewhere between pad kee mao and pad see ew. This is a very flexible recipe - you'll need some rice noodles, vegetables, and proteins, along with 2…
Running Kubernetes on bare metal: kubeadm, traefik, and more
Background While in college, I wanted an economical way to have a solid storage solution for my 2.5TB of photos (25mb+ each...) that didn't involve portable…
Quick Let's Encrypt Certificates with Certbot's Cloudflare DNS plugin
I use Let's Encrypt often to generate valid publicly trusted certificates for testing, but DCV can be annoying to do over and over again. In a production…