Hi, I’m Mike Danko. Computer and Radio nerd, avid bike rider, and very proud dad. My call sign is KD8ORQ and that might be a reason you found yourself here. Over the years I've tried several ways of keeping up my personal website, but I have been bad at all of them. In the past I've used a framework of my own design, Wordpress, [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/), and others I can't even really remember at this point. We're going to try [Obsidian Publish](https://obsidian.md/publish) for now. I really don’t intend on what’s here to just be notes, but also some more fleshed out content. As a very busy person I often can lose context for the things I’m working on so I try and document them here. So this isn’t a blog, it’s not a notebook, and I refuse to use the phrase _Digital Garden_, so it’s just… a website. Were you looking for something that’s not here anymore? I did not copy content over. It's fine, you're not missing much. I don’t have a comments section on purpose. If you have a question about anything that’s here, you can catch me on Mastodon or other places, see [[My Links]] for details. ### Latest Content 2025-02-17 Links and notes on Hyperpalatable Foods and GLP-1 agonists in changing brain behavior in those who've been fed them their whole lives: [[Hyperpalatable food]] 2024-10-10 Update on [[Project 3 - Home Lab]]. Lazy update, yes, but true, yes. *2024-09-25* I’ve moved some things around here as my technology hobbies meet my radio ones. The new folder is ***The Danklab***. I have updated all the notes in that folder for a multitude of reasons, mostly legibility by anyone but me, but especially me in the future. I wrote a note on the new project, which is straightening out my [[Project 3 - Home Lab]]. Today I also found a post on Hacker News called “[Why I still blog after 15 years](https://www.jonashietala.se/blog/2024/09/25/why_i_still_blog_after_15_years/)” and it completely captures the same reasons I do and I thought I’d share. The[ thread about it](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41646531) is pretty good too. *2024-09-18* Project #2 is online. [[Trunk Recorder Server]] and [[Radio Project Number 2 - The Bunch of RTL-SDR's.]] have the links. *2024-09-13* The saga of the [[KiwiSDR Project]] continues. I’d hoped to convert this to an actual blog at some point but I’m still struggling with the network and RF noise. I have started on my next project in the meantime, which is using [trunk-recorder](https://github.com/robotastic/trunk-recorder) and a lot of RTL-SDR’s to capture about 14MHz of local public safety p25 networks. I had this working in an amazing way before and while I don’t have as much time to dedicate to it anymore, I do have it mostly working and some write ups on it will happen soon. I've dubbed this [[Radio Project Number 2 - The Bunch of RTL-SDR's.]] and you can read about it there. *2024-09-07* Finished the [[KiwiSDR Project]] for now and it's [online in the directory](http://kiwisdr.com/public/)! *2024-09-06* Update to the [[KiwiSDR Project]] saga. Finally working with very minimal noise! _2024-09-04_ I have been fighting a battle getting a low noise environment working with my [[KiwiSDR Project]], but it’s starting to look good.