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blog-post nic // Isaiah
For My Own Sake I Do It
!!! note "Isaiah 48:9-11" My thoughts here feel hard to put together - it's a comforting thing to me to hear God say he restrains his anger for t
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blog-post nic // ai
My Thoughts on Beads
[Steve Yegge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Yegge) is a pretty well-known individual in the tech field, having been around for a long time at some of the
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2026-02-26 Notes
yesterday: [[2026-02-25-notes]] [[the-wrath-to-come]] started [[the-wrath-to-come-pt-2]]
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blog-post nic // wrath
The Wrath to Come pt 2
The Beginning [[the-wrath-to-come]] is only the beginning, because for the true son or daughter of the King, the wrath directed at the enemy, at the threat, is
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2026-02-25 Notes
yesterday: [[2026-02-24-notes]] Tech Added some timezones to [[clocks]]
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blog-post nic // wrath
The Wrath to Come
!!! note "Matthew 3:7" `The coming wrath`... This is a tough one to think about, and I'm not sure I have a ton of hard opinions about that coming
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project nic // projects
clocks
One of the best things I've vibe-coded ![20260225115333_35a70833.png](https://cdn.statically.io/gh/pypeaday/images.pype.dev/main/blog-media/20260225115333_
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2026-02-24 Notes
yesterday: [[2026-02-23-notes]] Today Wrote a Compassion letter to Noemi
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2026-02-23 Notes
yesterday: [[2026-02-20-notes]] Tech some progress on [[nexus]] webapp Daily re-[[reflection-hebrews-13-5]]
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blog-post nic // money
Reflection - Hebrews 13:5
!!! note "Hebrews 13:5" Hebrews is a long sermon and near the end of that sermon are some imperatives for God's people. The Bible is anything but
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2026-02-20 Notes
yesterday: [[2026-02-18-notes]] [[reflection-2-corinthians-7-6]] Tech Need to spend some time on zfs-ops Started stubbing out k8s ideas for homelab with windsur
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blog-post nic // comfort
Reflection - 2 Corinthians 7:6
!!! note "2 Corinthians 7:6" Paul didn't have to credit God as one "who comforts the humble" - he could've just praised God for th
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note nic // cat
Cat Stock at 760
Cat stock is ridiculous... I remember 6 years ago or so someone at a volleyball meetup freaking out about 197, he couldn't wait to sell at 200...
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2026-02-18 Notes
yesterday: [[2026-02-17-notes]] Tech upgraded pihole for the first time in forever using my windsurf credits to try and close some gaps in my backup logic [ ] z
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blog-post nic // trials
Trials Reveal Faith (short)
Spurgeon's "Morning and Evening" today ended with a poem: Trials forge and reveal faith in our lives - faith in something that is... Yahweh uses
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2026-02-17 Notes
yesterday: [[2026-02-16-notes]] started [[someday]] used opencode to go through my posts for technologies I said I'd write about but haven't yet [[for
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blog-post nic // work
Forge Ahead
Yesterday's [[reflection-contentment-and-work]] has a second-part this morning. As I was wrapping up a project I didn't realize the closed-off-ness of
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2026-02-16 Notes
yesterday: [[2026-02-15-notes]] [[reflection-contentment-and-work]]
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blog-post nic // contentment
Reflection - Contentment and Work
!!! note "Philippians 4:11" Context This verse showing up in Spurgeon's **Morning and Evening** is a divine grace to me. Today is a significant d
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2026-02-15 Notes
yesterday: [[2026-02-13-notes]] Daily Went to BJJ yesterday for the first time since late December... you definitely feel 6 weeks off not only in the cardio, bu
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2026-02-13 Notes
yesterday: [[2026-02-12-notes]] [[consequences-discipline-and-punishment]]
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blog-post nic // parenting
Consequences, Discipline, and Punishment
I'm a dad and I have 2 beautiful daughters in my house right now. As they've grown up just a little from new-born to toddler to child, my wife and I h
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2026-02-12 Notes
yesterday: [[2026-02-10-notes]] [[the-ridiculous-blessing-of-the-lord]] updated [[kubernetes-external-secrets-operator]] a little bit - it's not a tutorial
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blog-post nic // family
The Ridiculous Blessing of the Lord
I went to sit down this morning with a cup of coffee and do a meditation like I try to do at least a few times a week. I meditate on the Bible, on God's wo
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2026-02-10 Notes
yesterday: [[2026-02-07-notes]] [x] [[cat-autonomy-2-0]] [x] [[kubernetes-external-secrets-operator]] [github repo](https://github.com/pypeaday/blog-kubernetes-
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blog-post nic // devops
Kubernetes External Secrets Operator
I wanted to put a short demo together of using External Secrets Operator (ESO) to expose secrets from a vault (like Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, etc) t
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glossary nic // glossary
docker
docker - container runtime
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glossary nic // glossary
kind
kind - kubernetes in docker
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glossary nic // glossary
kubectl
kubectl - canonically pronouned kube-control
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glossary nic // glossary
helm
helm - package manager for k8s
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blog-post nic // work
Cat Autonomy 2.0
I wrote about my new role [[new-job-caterpillar-autonomy]] a bit a couple weeks ago during an insanely busy time - having just started the role and wrapping up
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2026-02-07 Notes
yesterday: [[2026-02-06-notes]] [[reflection-arise-and-depart]]
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blog-post nic // reflection
Reflection - Arise and Depart
Spurgeon's **Morning and Evening** reflection for this morning is Micah 2:10 "Arise, and depart". !!! note "context" !!! note "Mic
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2026-02-06 Notes
yesterday: [[2026-02-05-notes]] [[nexus]] updates are that I'm rebuilding now to drop kanboard - it gave me the framework for what I need but it's too
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2026-02-05 Notes
yesterday: [[2026-02-03-notes]] I'm continuing to think about [[nexus]] it's for me, not thinking about other people collaborating on issues it has ma
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slashPage nic // slash
AI
How do I use AI for my site? Cover images - I generate these with Stable Diffusion running on my desktop, the prompts sometimes comes from basically dropping my
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2026-02-03 Notes
yesterday: [[2026-01-31-notes]] I am working a lot... 3 hours today and it's 545 AM... probably 23 hours into the week already since Sunday. Hoping this co
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blog-post nic // genai
Learning How To Agent
Introduction & Background I've been using AI tools for codegen for a few years now, but not super heavily. I either use the in-line copilot stuff, whic
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2026-01-31 Notes
yesterday: [[2026-01-23-notes]] It's been too long since I've written anything or done any reflection. Work has been all-consuming. It's been a w
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blog-post nic // reflection
Revel in imparted righteousness
Spurgeon's Morning and Evening today is from Jeremiah 23:6. !!! warning "" !!! note "Jeremiah 23:6" The Lord is our righteousness There
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blog-post nic // work
New Job - Caterpillar Autonomy
In [[im-back-from-the-dead]] I mentioned my new role that started this year - it's a return to Caterpillar Autonomy. I built some data pipelines and junior
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2026-01-23 Notes
yesterday: [[2026-01-01-notes]] [[im-back-from-the-dead]]
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blog-post nic // note
I'm back from the dead
The flu hit me like a freight train right at the start of the year, along with the most stress I've ever felt at work dropping on me at the same time, I&#x
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2026-01-01 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-12-31-notes]] TIL The 12 days of Christmas is supposed to start on Christmas Eve/Christmas Day and ends the eve of Epiphany (January 6th or th
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-12-31 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-12-30-notes]] Ideas I want to start writing about some parenting concepts discipline vs consequences vs punishment is one concept love and the
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blog-post nic // faith
Reflection - John 7:37
!!! note "John 7:37" The Last Day So, today obviously isn't the last day of a feast Jesus is speaking at, I don't mean to impose anything be
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-12-30 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-12-27-notes]] Dev taking a look at the zensical docs builds broken in my homelab I pulled the forgejo runner image to build locally - but that
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blog-post nic // forgejo
Increase inotify limit in your CI workers
Today I tripped over a CI failure that I had to think about for a while. I build [zensical](https://github.com/zensical/zensical) static sites in CI on my Forge
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blog-post nic // deuteronomy
The Hidden Things Belong To Yahweh
!!! note "Deuteronomy 29:29" Here is a truth every Christian should meditate on and remember whenever they find themselves so sure of a biblical teach
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til nic // docker
Prettier Docker 'ps' Command
The `docker ps` command is very useful, but I hate reading the output. Turns out, you can make it prettier: `docker ps` --format "table" is implied wi
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blog-post nic // reflection
Reflection - Galatians 2:19-20
!!! note "Galatians 2:19-20" This is one of the most common verse-memory verses I think. Probably there's good reason for that - Paul has a lot t
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-12-27 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-12-26-notes]] Dev cool it on cannalyze and qr-harbor. focus on data model and then use the fastapi-template focus on [[soonish]] and [[mindful
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-12-26 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-12-24-notes]] Dev Working on [[cannalyze]] again opencode with grok is on this QR Harbor! dynamic qr code hosting opencode with Opus 4.1 on th
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blog-post nic // advent
Advent - 1 John 4:17
!!! note "1 John 4:17" Confidence I've definitely written about confidence before outside this blog, it's a key Christian theme. John mentio
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-12-24 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-12-23-notes]] Continued work sermon editing thinking about a temporal workflow how to have an agent work in that workflow? focusing on soonish
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-12-23 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-12-20-notes]] Continued work mcp server for sermon editing quadtask v2 is in the notifiq repo focusing on soonish and mindful for now digital
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blog-post nic // advent
Advent - Luke 6:35
!!! note "Luke 6:35" Love Your Enemies I was once an enemy of God, and even today still make choices that highlight enmity in my heart towards him. It
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blog-post nic // advent
Advent - Mark 12:29-30
!!! note "Mark 12:29-30" The Most Important Commandment !!! note "Deuteronomy 6:4-5" Jesus quotes the Shema as the most important commandmen
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-12-20 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-12-19-notes]] Today started another mcp server with opencode for sermon editing with church... feels so simple that an agent should be able to
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blog-post nic // advent
Advent - Romans 15:13
!!! note "Romans 15:13" The last 3 weeks of Advent are summarized right here in verse 13. Yahweh is the God of hope, of expectation, he brings Joy thr
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-12-19 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-12-18-notes]] TODO santa tracker in home assistant [github repo](https://github.com/chrisefrost/HomeAssistant-Santa-Tracker) Consider the [Pus
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-12-18 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-12-15-notes]] trying opencode today to generate a Linux MCP server so I can get some simple LLM-driven insights into a few things on my server
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blog-post nic // advent
Advent - Matthew 5:11-12
!!! note "Matthew 5:11-12" Context To drop some context that I'm familiar with, this is from a famous section of Jesus' "Sermon on the
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blog-post nic // advent
Advent - John 15:10-11
!!! note "John 15:10-11" This is a beautiful couple verses about love that have only made more and more sense to me as I get older and I have become a
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blog-post nic // advent
Advent - Luke 2:10-11
!!! note "Luke 2:10-11"
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-12-15 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-12-14-notes]] Printing Today shelf/bracket for basement camera (1 hr) GB pieces (9 hrs)
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blog-post nic // advent
Advent - Isaiah 51:3
!!! note "Isaiah 51:1-3" Joy in the Father On the heels of yesterday, I'm still struggling with Joy, but here in Isaiah some context aligns Joy w
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-12-14 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-12-12-notes]] Been a rough couple days with sick wife, sick me, young kids, and life doesn't stop... I am cleaning up Digital Harbor infr
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blog-post nic // advent
Advent - Psalm 105:43
!!! note "Psalm 105:43" Joy is a toughy right now if I'm honest... Today marks the 3rd week of Advent, today we light the Joy candle. But honestl
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blog-post nic // advent
Advent - Ephesians 4:3
!!! note "Ephesians 4:1-6" Unity and Peace Once again I say "Praise God" this morning for more words of Scripture that succinctly highlight
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-12-12 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-12-11-notes]]
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blog-post nic // tofu
Setup A Cloudflare Tunnel With Terraform
I am cooking up some stuff at home and want to put it on the interwebs, but I don't want it on the same infra as my homelab. Now... I only have a server or
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blog-post nic // advent
Advent - Ephesians 2:14-16
The reflection in the BP calendar for today was only verses 14-15 but they made no sense to me without some more context !!! note "Ephesians 2:11-22"
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-12-11 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-12-09-notes]] Linux Matters mentioned some song visualizers and one of the hosts even wrote one... I've recently been lamenting that I&#x
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blog-post nic // advent
Advent - Colossians 1:19-20
!!! note "Colossians 1:19-20" I feel like there's so much that could be unpacked here... "all his fullness dwell him in" - so besides t
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blog-post nic // advent
Advent - John 16:33
!!! note "John 16:33" It's interesting to read a little context around this morning's Advent reflection passage/verse... !!! note "John
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-12-09 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-12-08-notes]] Dev Stood up [Domain Locker](https://github.com/lissy93/domain-locker) today and it looks dope, we'll see how it fits into
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blog-post nic // advent
Advent - Zechariah 9:9-10
!!! note "Zechariah 9:9-10" My king is indeed coming, and has already come. He is humble and he is victorious. Jesus can "announce peace" be
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-12-08 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-12-06-notes]] Today [[advent-isaiah-9-6-7]] Thought about [[uv-run-pep-723-is-a-match-made-in-heaven]] [[columns-env-var-for-nicer-screenshots
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til nic // terminal
COLUMNS Env Var For Nicer Screenshots
I was working on [[uv-run-pep-723-is-a-match-made-in-heaven]] and I wanted to grab a screenshot of a TUI, but my terminal is full screen and the TUI was then su
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blog-post nic // series-if-you-want-it-make-it-so
UV Run + PEP 723 Is A Match Made In Heaven
This post will be short but hopefully be a dense few paragraphs about how using `uv run foo.py` along with [PEP 723](https://peps.python.org/pep-0723/) is life-
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blog-post nic // advent
Advent - Isaiah 9:6-7
!!! note "Isaiah 9:6-7" To Peace There Will Be No End What a fantastic promise about what the King will do - to bring unending peace. I wrote about pe
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glossary nic // glossary
UV
uv by [Astral.sh](https://astral.sh) is one of the dopest python toolchain tools to ever exist
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blog-post nic // advent
Advent - Isaiah 26:3
!!! note "Isaiah 26:3" This is reminding me of a blog post I've had in the queue for months [[autism-and-steadfast-faith]] which may never see th
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blog-post nic // advent
Advent 2025 - Love
Advent Address Love !!! note "1 John 4:7–10 (CSB)" "not that we loved God, but that he loved us" Can a newborn love? When a baby enters the
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-12-06 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-12-05-notes]] [[advent-romans-8-24-25]] Ran into many issues installing `just` in my CI runner at buildtime... so maybe need my own image, but
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blog-post nic // llm
GitHub Stopped Me From Messing With The Bots
After some cheeky [[small-steps-towards-handling-malicious-traffic-on-static-sites]] it turns out GH has been blocking me from publishing my site because the fo
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blog-post nic // advent
Advent - Romans 8:24-25
!!! note "Romans 8:24-25" Q: What does it look like for you to actively but patiently wait for God right now? "What does it look like" often
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-12-05 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-12-04-notes]] [[advent---romans-8-20-21]] Misc My blog has had a ton of 404s from an old image/media workflow. Today I finally just commented
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blog-post nic // advent
Advent - Romans 8:20-21
!!! note "Romans 8:20-21" I honestly do not spend a lot of time thinking about the specifics of god's fully liberated and healed world... I do ge
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-12-04 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-12-03-notes]] [[advent---1-peter-1-3]] Misc Many things are helping and hurting my focus lately, but I feel aware of them... Scrolling... Obvi
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blog-post nic // llm
Small Steps Towards Handling Malicious Traffic on Static Sites
Today I saw a random IP hitting an app server I had open via `tailscale funnel` and it got me thinking that I need to take some precautions against these real w
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blog-post nic // advent
Advent - 1 Peter 1:3
!!! note "1 Peter 1:3" Q: How does Jesus’ resurrection from death shape your hope for both the future and life today? Coming off the heals of a somewh
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-12-03 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-12-01-notes]] [[advent-isaiah-40-31]]
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blog-post nic // advent
Advent - Isaiah 40:31
!!! note "Isaiah 40:31" There is a pretty significant _thing_ going on in my life right now that's causing me to grow a bit weary and faint. Esse
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thoughts nic // dev
💭 COLUMNS env var
Awesome awesome TIL with COLUMNS for some nicer terminal printouts for READMEs and such
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blog-post nic // advent
Advent - Psalm 130:7
!!! note "Psalm 130:7" He-sed Yahweh's `loyal love` is `חֶ֫סֶד` (he-sed)... It comes from Exodus 34 !!! note "Exodus 34:6-7" `abounding
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-12-01 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-11-29-notes]] [[the-audacity]] working on docs for my dotfiles right now greased pipeline to GH is nice
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blog-post nic // advent
Advent - Psalm 39:7
!!! note "Psalm 39:7" Every Advent I wish I took it more seriously - each year trying to be slightly more diligent about traditions and raising our da
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blog-post nic // advent
Advent - Isaiah 8:17
!!! note "Isaiah 8:17" `I will await him` -> this isn't "waiting" like being patient... The first "wait" is, but the secon
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-11-29 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-11-28-notes]] pype.dev mirror works without `just` in the forgejo runner GH Pages for my blog isn't right since it's path based rout
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-11-28 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-11-27-notes]] Dev doing some more dotfiles cleanup I want to have github dotfiles be a mirror of forgejo forgejo build can strip out some of t
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-11-27 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-11-26-notes]] Big Changes Got my workspaces script in working order It's not quite configurable yet This will allow an easy way to setup
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-11-26 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-11-25-notes]] started a post about considering others' points - used speakr to transcribe [[reflection-ecclesiastes-9-10]] Dev FINALLY se
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blog-post nic // reflection
Reflection - Ecclesiastes 9:10
!!! note "Ecclesiastes 9:10" !!! warning "Reflection vs Hermeneutics" Finding **Whatever your hand finds to do**... The beginning assumes a
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-11-25 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-11-24-notes]] Started learning git-worktrees today Talked with Waylon quite a bit about extending the shared `ta` workflow with worktrees now
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-11-24 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-11-23-notes]] Development EOY is a good time to revisit the dots I have several old neovim plugins I've tried that can go TIL I have `<
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-11-23 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-11-21-notes]] Today [[quadtask]].app got retired... we're at [https://quadtask.fly.dev](https://quadtask.fly.dev) now frees up the domain
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thoughts nic // homelab
💭 Docker | Atuin Docs
A 2-fer... So I want to host atuin and share shell history across my machines on my tailnet I think... it's such a nice
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-11-21 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-11-19-notes]] My blog now has the potential to have audio file served up with it! using [dropper](https://dropper.wayl.one) for now [markata p
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-11-19 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-11-15-notes]] finished [[by-gods-grace]] [[reflection-psalm-93]]
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blog-post nic // reflection
Reflection - Psalm 93
Yahweh is king !!! note "Psalm 93" Observations Yahweh is king; **he clothes himself** with majesty. **Yahweh clothes himself**; he girds himself with
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blog-post nic // reflection
By God's Grace
!!! note "Style"  Okay, so I had this thought about, hon
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-11-15 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-11-13-notes]] tried [[zensical]] today will build my homelab-mono docs on it to start learned about [lazyjournal](https://github.com/Lifailon/
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til nic // dev
Check SWAP in htop
I struggle with maxxing swap on all my machines, I am sure it's a neovim config that I've propagated everywhere and I'm too lazy to figure it out
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glossary nic // glossary
Zensical
Zensical is a static site gnerator from the Material for Mk Docs team. Looks beautiful by default, great for doc sites [link](https://zensical.org/)
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-11-13 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-11-10-notes]] Runescape starting [Monkey Madness 1](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Monkey_Madness_I) today
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blog-post nic // speakr
Speakr For Recording and Transcribing at Home
I have been using Whisper-WebUI for several months in my homelab to record and transcribe myself thinking out loud. It's been great. Then I came across [sp
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-11-10 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-11-07-notes]] Projects started trying to redeploy repoflow thinking about auth has me wanting to get SSO setup at home for repoflow.... [LLDAP
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blog-post nic // homelab
RepoFlow Robot User
I'm trying to lean into [repoFlow](https://repoflow.io) at home, and model some slightly better patterns than open borders to artifacts across all my servi
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-11-07 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-11-05-notes]] Ideas Started thinking about a reusable forgejo action to do docker builds for projects. I want to self host [iron calc](https:/
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-11-05 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-11-04-notes]] Reflection - Blessings [[reflection-go-forward-only-thing-to-do]]
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blog-post nic // reflection
Reflection - Go Forward - Only Thing To Do
Reflection Today I am thinking about the blessings in my life... In my opinion, I have a lot going for me - God has been so utterly good to me that finding faul
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-11-04 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-11-03-notes]] Today finished [[deuteronomy-6-and-the-shema]] after watching the BP video on it this morning
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blog-post nic // shema
Deuteronomy 6 and the Shema
The Shema from Judaism, archived in Deuteronomy 6, is a pinnacle tradition in Hebrew Judaism, and _should be_ in Christianity. I cannot claim to be an expert, b
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-11-03 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-10-30-notes]] Today Fell back into a slump over the last couple weeks... Struggling to keep up on morning reflections, writing, building, etc.
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note nic // politics
Facism and Heresy - Words Matter
This is a short reflection/semi-open letter to a friend I've been having a conversation with for a couple weeks Name-calling in a rhetorical exchange is su
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-10-30 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-10-28-notes]] Reflection [[reflection-psalm-9-1]]
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blog-post nic // reflection
Reflection - Psalm 9:1
!!! note "Psalm 9:1" Praise God The phrase "praise God" has become a common phrase in my life. I'm blessed to have my best friend, Mich
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-10-28 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-10-27-notes]] [[reflection-john-15-19]]
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blog-post nic // grace
Reflection - John 15:19
!!! note "Spurgeon" !!! note "John 15:19" The World "Not of this world" was a clothing brand when I was a kid that made emo-styled
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thoughts nic // git
💭 You already have a git server: (Maurycy's blog)
Using my server's filesystem + ssh + git-hooks for the simplest self-hosted CI pipelines ever sounds like a pretty cool
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-10-27 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-10-26-notes]] Organization I'm trying to keep the daily notes slim, might take them off my feed Leaning into [now](/now) as a living docu
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blog-post nic // salvation
Helkyo - What is it for God to draw man to him?
In John 6 there is a curious phrase about how the Father initiates the process of Salvation in the hearts of men. !!! note "John 6:44" The word `draws
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glossary nic // glossary
Helkyo
To drag forcefully transliteration: helkō
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-10-26 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-10-24-notes]] Hylkeos started [[helkyo-what-is-it-for-god-to-draw-man-to-him]]
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-10-24 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-10-21-notes]] Tech [JetKVM](https://www.ikoolcore.com/collections/jetkvm) are shipping to US again! Reflection [[reflection---mark-4-1-20]]
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-10-21 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-10-19-notes]] Reflection [[reflection---mark-4-1-20]] Projects thinking through [[soonish#Message Priority]]
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blog-post nic // reflection
Reflection - Mark 4:1-20
The Soils I am in the middle of reprocessing the soils' parable - I heard a very interesting interpretation the other day that I'm following up on. BU
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-10-19 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-10-14-notes]] Today Refactored my gotify watcher script for church to use python, the gotify api has a `/message` endpoint that matters when y
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blog-post nic // reflection
Reflection - John 21:12
!!! note "John 21:12" Come and eat Jesus offers this communion with himself every day, and to very believer... Sharing a meal with someone is a pretty
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-10-14 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-10-13-notes]] Reflection [[reflection-philippians-3-8]]
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blog-post nic // reflection
Reflection - Philippians 3:8
!!! note "Philippians 3:8" Loss Paul's words are convicting this morning... **I even consider all things to be loss**. !!! danger "" Do
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-10-13 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-10-12-notes]] Now updated [[now]] published [[use-jellyfin-tags-for-content-moderation]]
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glossary nic // glossary
Affine
Mind-mapping webapp at home with native desktop App. Like Notion but with diagram support Work The mind-mapping capabilities with Affine seem pretty great. Ther
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-10-12 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-10-10-notes]] Reflection [[reflection---psalm-119-15]] Other Site rendering poorly on safari [[testing-safari-formatting]]
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blog-post nic // reflection
Reflection - Psalm 119:15
!!! note "Psalm 119:15" Meditate Spurgeon had a good thought here... It is not the act of eating that actually nourishes our bodies, it is digestion..
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note nic // test
Testing Safari Formatting
**bolded with asterisks** **dunder** _single asterisk_
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-10-10 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-10-09-notes]] Reflecion [[reflection-jude-24]]
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blog-post nic // reflection
Reflection - Jude 24
!!! note "Jude 24-25" make you to stand before his glory blameless with exultation The ultimate hope of the one called to Jesus - to be made blameless
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glossary nic // glossary
Original Sin
The doctrine (**but question still for me**) basically answers this question: Do we sin because we're sinners or are we sinners because we sin? With the an
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-10-09 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-10-08-notes]] Project Played with 2 different patterns for accessing encrypted data from a fastapi app... started [[should-data-models-be-fat]
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-10-08 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-10-07-notes]] TIL [[use-jellyfin-tags-for-content-moderation]] Pilgrim's Creek Recorded ep 6 of Pilgrim's Creek with Cameron We disc
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til nic // jellyfin
Use Jellyfin Tags For Content Moderation
Jellyfin brings in ratings and allows you to set custom ratings for shows, which is nice for things like "block anything worse than TV-14 for my kid's
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-10-07 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-10-06-notes]] Quick Thought Something I"ve noticed about myself recently is how naturally try to exploit systems. I don't mean in a
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blog-post nic // reflection
Reflection - Numbers 11:11
As if the Lord orchestrated Spurgeon's meditation to give me a spring board to what I need for the third day in a row... [[reflection-1-kings-19-8]] He sho
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-10-06 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-10-05-notes]] Writing published [[speakr-for-recording-and-transcribing-at-home]] Reflection These daily reflections are good, I'd like t
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blog-post nic // reflection
Reflection - John 4:14
Today Spurgeon's "Morning and Evening" was on John 4:14 !!! note "John 4:14" Being autistic and growing up in the Church led to a few a
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-10-05 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-10-04-notes]] Reflection [[reflection-1-kings-19-8]] Projects thinking about updates to [[quadtask]] to envelop it inside digital harbor more.
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blog-post nic // reflection
Reflection - 1 Kings 19:8
Spurgeon picked 1 Kings 19:8 this morning and his meditation was encouraging at a meta-level. Highlighting to me that we (Christians) in maturity can be refresh
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glossary nic // glossary
Angel of Yahweh
The Angel of Yahweh is but isn't Yahweh, it's the second person of the Trinity, the visible Yahweh to the invisible Yahweh
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-10-04 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-10-02-notes]] Cooking Update [[chili-notes]] Project Update [[sending-sms-with-smtp]]
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blog-post nic // til
Sending SMS with SMTP
I'm cooking something up over here that will include SMS message notifications as a feature and I've been doing some reading on different providers...
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-10-02 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-10-01-notes]] Random Thoughts I was thinking it might be nice on my blog to have a couple facelifts: my daily notes always have the `yesterday
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-10-01 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-09-28-notes]] Reflection [[reflection-psalm-84-11]] Projects A friend hit me up for some help with git because he's building a game with
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blog-post nic // reflection
Reflection - Psalm 84:11
Spurgeon's Morning and Evening today (actually the evening one) is for [Psalm 84:11](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+84%3A11&version
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-09-28 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-09-27-notes]] Updates [[using-litestream-to-restore-my-database-for-easy-development#Update]]
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-09-27 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-09-24-notes]] Reflection [[reflection-deuteronomy-33-29]] Losses something about running docker in distrobox is wonky with permissions on volu
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blog-post nic // reflection
Reflection - Deuteronomy 33:29
Note reflections are not theological study Spurgeon's Morning and Evening today starts with: !!! note "Deuteronomy 33:29" What is it to be saved
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-09-24 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-09-23-notes]] Reflection [[reflection-romans-3-26]] Dev Finally figured out an issue with my Conform setup was just that `node` wasn't in
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blog-post nic // reflection
Reflection - Romans 3:26
From Morning and Evening today, Spurgeon has thoughts on Romans 3:26. I need more context personally, so here's a newer translation of 3:25-26 !!! note &qu
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slashPage nic // slash
Wants
Wants [GL.inet Travel Router with Tailscale support](https://store-us.gl-inet.com/products/beryl-ax-gl-mt3000-pocket-sized-wi-fi-6-wireless-travel-gigabit-route
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-09-23 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-09-20-notes ]] Today started [[wants]]
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-09-20 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-09-19-notes ]] Today Liz asked me to write a book review for her a couple months ago and I finally got around to it... [[book-review-dula-fig
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note nic // review
Book Review - Dula, Fig, and the Wisdom of Old Sycamore
Dula, Fig, and the Wisdom of Old Sycamore is a beautifully illustrated and powerful story that gives kids an accessible framework to better understand their wor
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-09-19 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-09-18-notes ]] Reflection [[reflection---galatians-5-1]] Projects Been thinking a lot about soonish, it feels like my thoughts are 3 dimensio
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blog-post nic // reflection
Reflection - Galatians 5:1
Spurgeon's "Morning and Evening" today is about the freedom we have in Christ. Freedom is a core concept of Christianity, and one no doubt bastar
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-09-18 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-09-15-notes ]] Reflection [[reflection-galatians-524-25]]
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blog-post nic // reflection
Reflection - Galatians 5:24-25
!!! note "Galatians 5:24-25" Spurgeon's "Morning and Evening" is a mediation on living in and following the Spirit. He says this: You w
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-09-15 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-09-13-notes ]] Reflection [[reflection-short-erets]] Projects Continuing work on [[soonish]] Thoughts WorkOS for auth for B2B for soonish rem
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blog-post nic // cosmos
Reflection (Short) - Erets
I've been really buggin out about a project I'm working on and nearly forgetting to spend meaningful time during the day/mornings on reflection. Thank
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glossary nic // glossary
erets
Hebrew word for "land", biblically can refer to: the dry land the cosmic earthly realm that parallels the heavenly realm It does not mean "globe&
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-09-13 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-09-11-notes ]]
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til nic // git
Docker Compose Build From Git Repo
You can reference a git repo in compose's "build" argument for a service as of [this PR](https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/2430)
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-09-11 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-09-10-notes ]] Reflection [[reflection-they-can-come-for-anyone]] Soonish started mapping out models new name potential | notifiq
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blog-post nic // politics
Reflection - They Can Come For Anyone
At some point in the recent history of my country, political tensions began increasing exponentially between our 2 parties, and I had hardly cared until right a
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-09-10 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-09-09-notes ]] Projects we're going to start real work on this event notifications idea [[event-details-updates-via-notifications-as-a-s
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note nic // rto
That Guy Can Do Anything
"That guy can do anything!" sounds nice, right? What if it didn't matter... what if you draw corporate cat-calls for your sexy skills, excel ever
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-09-09 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-09-08-notes ]] Reflection Projects Came across the idea of a [micro-saas](https://www.msthgn.com/articles/the-micro-saas-revolution-from-gian
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-09-08 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-09-06-notes ]] Reflection Discussed with Andrew the discomfort I felt this morning reading Spurgeon's reflection on Hosea 14:8 The basic
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til nic // python
Zsh alias for uv scripts
It's apparently advantageous for uv to have a specific shebang set that `uv init` doesn't add, no problem, we can have a zsh alias for it Then if you
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thoughts nic // uv
💭 uv script management
Dang Waylon! Love these few lines... uv is great, been using it for environment and project requirements management bu
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-09-06 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-09-05-notes ]] Reflection [[reflection-on-philippians-2-14-18]]
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blog-post nic // reflection
Reflection on Philippians 2:14-18
!!! note "Philippians 2:15-18" "Do all things without grumbling and disputing"... now, taking verses out of context is one of my biggest pet
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thoughts nic // engineering
💭 Engineering excellence starts on edge
I have become a huge DHH fan, maybe that means I'm just a basic bish but as I've become aware of who he has I haven't ye
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-09-05 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-09-03-notes ]] Writing wrapped up [[write-in-to-the-hybrid-cloud-show]]
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protected-post nic // protected
Write In To The Hybrid Cloud Show
🔒 This content is password protected.
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-09-03 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-09-02-notes ]] Reflection it's been a few days... pick the torch up again tomorrow with morning and evening TOODs update the Sch. (frien
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-09-02 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-09-01-notes ]] Runescape membership coming soon... I've exhaused free-to-play quests (minus 1 I'm waiting on Rob to do together) go
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glossary nic // glossary
apprise
Apprise - github project that's awesome about notifications [github repo](https://github.com/caronc/apprise)
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-09-01 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-31-notes ]] Projects I started a notes page for my [[homelab-as-a-service]] idea... idk what to name it and I don't love this but I c
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glossary nic // glossary
Pinchflat
Pinchflat is a self-hostable YouTube media downloader
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-31 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-29-notes ]] Writing [[old-school-runescape-runelite-plugins]] $HOME I don't know what to call my opinionated homelab distribution yet
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blog-post nic // reflection
Reflection - Morning August 31 2025
Morning, August 31 “On mine arm shall they trust." —Isaiah 51:5 !!! note "Spurgeon: Morning and Evening" Reflection By God's grace, I was le
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blog-post nic // runescape
Old School Runescape Runelite Plugins
I've been enjoying my time back in Old School Runescape. Such a classic for me. The landscape has changed a lot since 2006 though. There's clients and
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-29 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-28-notes ]] Homelab started chatting with jipity about some automation... I have so many ideas that circle my head and I have a hard time
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-28 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-27-notes ]] Reflection [[reflecting-on-romans-7-7-13#Round 5]] Wins time-boxing is definitely helpful, even with meetings going over and g
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-27 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-26-notes ]] Reflection on AI [[reflection-ai-work-and-adhd]] TODOs I need to think about how to keep track of daily tasks across my differ
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blog-post nic // adhd
Reflection - AI Work and ADHD
Reflection It's time to be more devoted to my work... AI has been a cool technology to watch and experience but one thing I'm allowing it to do to me
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slashPage nic // slash
Awesome
Awesome There's some things I find awesome online - here is a list of those things [Hybrid Cloud Show | Episode 37](https://latenightlinux.com/hcs37/) This
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-26 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-25-notes ]] Updates started my [[awesome]] list I missed something with speakr - need the HF_TOKEN for diarisation to work [[speakr-for-re
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thoughts nic // swarm
💭 Docker Swarm Still Rocks
Apparently docker swarm is still a thing and now I have to try it
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-25 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-24-notes ]] Projects [[speakr-for-recording-and-transcribing-at-home]] the speaker identification isn't working yet Desk clean up? wi
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-24 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-23-notes ]] Github going to spin up speakr Yes... it's replacing Whisper-WebUI [[speakr-for-recording-and-transcribing-at-home]] Home
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-23 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-22-notes ]] Reflection didn't write one up today, mediated some more this morning on "inner man", acknowledging the law wit
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-22 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-21-notes ]] Runescape knocking quests out - dragon slayer today maybe hit 40 str instead Forgejo [[self-hosting-a-code-forge-with-forgejo]
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blog-post nic // autism
When I Learned What An Escape Room Was
Set The Stage I was recently diagnosed with Autism and ADHD. I've written about it and will plan to write more. As of August 22, 2025 the only published pi
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-21 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-20-notes ]] Projects continued [[self-hosting-a-code-forge-with-forgejo]] after figuring out the `dind` runner stuff Reflection continue [
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blog-post nic // reflection
Thoughts On August 21 2025
Intro Been struggling more with work - what matters? I can't help but feel like nothing... As a Christian I want to do my work "for an audience of 1&q
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-20 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-19-notes ]] Reflection continuing [[reflecting-on-romans-7-7-13]] (updated) Forgejo [[forgejo]] started [[self-hosting-a-code-forge-with-f
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glossary nic // glossary
forgejo
self-hosted code forge codeberg fork of gittea see [[self-hosting-a-code-forge-with-forgejo]]
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-19 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-18-notes ]] Reflection I wanted to read psalm 1 some this morning but am feeling like I should continue [[reflecting-on-romans-7-7-13]] pe
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thoughts nic // pages
💭 Codeberg Pages | Codeberg Documentation
Forgejo has a github pages like feature... this might be nice to use sometime as I try to lean into forgejo, but the las
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thoughts nic // static-site
💭 Use Traefik 2 with Nginx, Apache, or CaddyServer to Serve Stat...
Looks like a nice way to use git to back static sites, which I already do with my blog but this would be a simple way to
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-18 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-17-notes ]] Reflections [[reflecting-on-romans-7-7-13]]
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blog-post nic // reflections
Reflecting on Romans 7:7-13
Passage Romans 7:7–7:13 (ESV): 7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-17 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-16-notes ]] Reflections men's group yesterday was a fine conversation about a few things in 1 John 3, primarily around what it means
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-16 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-15-notes ]] Olivet needed to have done more on [[olivet-mens-group-august-2025]] reflection on Romans 7/8 needs to continue... There'
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-15 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-14-notes ]] Runescape started [[runescape-clients-and-settings]]
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blog-post nic // runescape
Runescape Clients and Settings
I'm not a seasoned PC gamer, so launchers and game installers have been a tad confusing to me over the years. Runescape has some clients now, and [runelite
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-14 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-13-notes ]] Forgejo need to setup my runner but I then I got [[starting-old-school-runescape-over-again]]
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til nic // gaming
Pair AceGamer Wireless PS4 Controller With PC
I bought a $20 PS4 knock-off controller recently as my PS4 controllers are 12 years old (to me!) and I bought them used before that... the instructions for a $2
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blog-post nic // runescape
Starting Old School Runescape Over Again
Intro I got an itch to play a new game recently and after squabbling with my PS4 and my PC I decided to go old school literally with Old School Runescape... I p
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thoughts nic // forjeo
💭 Setting up a Self-Hosted Forgejo Actions Runner with Docker Co...
As I explore forgjeo this post has a title that sounds very promising! I would like everything to be a docker compose st
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-13 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-12-notes ]] Pilgrim's Creek fish story about studying the same fish every day to become a good biologist discussed many things, didn&
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-12 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-11-notes ]] Thoughts apprise needs to be the notification pillar... quadtask should just use it soonish $HOME (brainstorm an easier codena
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blog-post nic // homelab
Proxy Pull Docker Images From Self-Hosted Container Registry Through Self-Hosted Repoflow
This post is a short write-up of an issue I had while exploring [Reploflow](https://repoflow.io) - a super solid artifactory-esq replacement for the homelab (an
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-11 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-10-notes ]] Repoflow talking with Tomer about my dockerhub issues now
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-10 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-09-notes ]] New trying out [https://github.com/matda59/ChoresRewards](ChoresRewards). It looks obviously vibe-coded, could re-vibe it myse
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blog-post nic // sermons
AudioMass
I edit our church's recorded sermons every week and upload them to our website. It's very simple, and the editing is just cutting the audio file down
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blog-post nic // neovim
A Simple Lua Plugin To Find My Drafts
I used windsurf to write [[daily-notes-neovim-plugin]] for navigating my daily notes in neovim. For a while now I've wanted a way to see my blog drafts...
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-09 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-08-notes ]] RepoFlow requested free license for [repoflow](https://docs.repoflow.io/Self-Hosting/licensing) which I might be able to use f
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-08 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-07-notes ]] did some work on - [[thoughts-to-nostr]] TODO [[olivet-mens-group-august-2025]] started [[when-i-learned-what-an-escape-room-w
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-07 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-06-notes ]] started [[autism-and-steadfast-faith]] almost forgot about apprise worked more on [[olivet-mens-group-august-2025]] Wins publi
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til nic // kanboard
Migrate Github Issues to Kanboard
I am working on shifting everything, or as much as I reasonably can, related to dev for myself to on-prem, including git and CI/CD. So for Quadtask I had a bunc
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blog-post nic // litestream
Using Litestream to Restore My Database for Easy Development
Litestream see [[using-litestream-to-backup-quadtasks-sqlite-db]] for how I setup litestream replication for [[quadtask]] I have the entrypoint to my app contai
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-06 Notes
yesterday - [[ 2025-08-05-notes ]] reminder: [[now]] for what I'm doing
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-05 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-04-notes ]] Today wrote [[setup-remote-minio-s3-backend-target-for-litestream]] working on litestream with quadtask, bigger plans eventual
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blog-post nic // litestream
Using Litestream to Backup QuadTask's SQLite DB
Litestream This post will be a walkthrough of installing [[litestream]] in a docker container that runs my FastAPI app in order to replicate the sqlite db in th
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blog-post nic // litestream
Setup Remote MinIO S3 Backend Target for Litestream
Intro I am starting to think through some patterns for replicating sqlite databases, exploring them, standardizing on schemas/models I use across projects, etc.
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glossary nic // glossary
Litestream
[Litestream](https://litestream.io/) is a simple way to replicate SQLite databases
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thoughts nic // fly.ip
💭 Static egress IPs for machines - Fresh Produce - Fly.io
I'm starting to setup litestream for replicating sqlite dbs of my apps to my self-hosted MinIO instance... only issue is
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-04 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-08-03-notes ]] TODO [x] update copier with glossary template just like notes but keep in glossary folder with new templateKey Work consolidat
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glossary nic // glossary
GrapheneOS
GrapheneOS is a de-googled version of Android OS you can run on Android devices. They coincidentally recommend Pixel phones for the sake of the hardware
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thoughts nic // notifications
💭 caronc/apprise-api: A lightweight REST framework that wraps th...
I just stood this up and I am very excited about how easy it was to setup and get a message through my gotify instance a
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-08-03 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-07-31-notes ]] Writting started [[docker-volume-mounts-link-to-an-inode]] the other day starting to organize glossary posts until it's b
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glossary nic // inode
inode
Index Nodes (inode) is a data structure that stores information about a file or directory, such as its size, permissions, ownership, and disk block addresses. E
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thoughts nic // software
💭 The Remarkable Incompetence At The Heart Of Tech
What a great post... the majority of my tech experience has been at a large non-tech company and this just couldn't be m
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blog-post nic // docker
Docker Volume Mounts Link to an Inode
docker bind mounts are specified as filepaths - this is very intuitive. I want /path/to/directory on my host to be shared with /another/path/foo in a container.
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-07-31 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-07-28-notes ]] QuadTask Implemented drag and drop on [quadtask](https://quadtask.app), it's in dev and I'll roll out updates as I w
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blog-post nic // reflection
Knowledge and Faith
A Question What does it mean to be "faithful"? I wrestle with this question in various contexts pretty regularly - mostly because God has been so ridi
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thoughts nic // productivity
💭 Kinopio
kinopio is a pretty sweet map-mapping type of application. It's localfirst, you can run it for free with state kept loca
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-07-28 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-07-27-notes ]] Blog og images look busted, taking a look at it this morning wrote [[what-is-a-right]] Wins wrapped up that stupid form at wor
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blog-post nic // reflection
What Is A Right?
Intro I saw something this morning that kind of irk'd me so I thought I'd write some thoughts on it... It was one of those maps of countries and the r
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-07-27 Notes
File explorer I've lost a lot of my terminal workflow since picking up more work in kubernetes and terraform, mostly because of the work patterns of those
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-07-26 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-07-25-notes ]] Dev I kept working on my ansible playbook and just recipes for setting up a new machine... I just need to diagram it out to co
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-07-25 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-07-24-notes ]] Wins [[god-provides-when-he-takes-away]] published [[after-exceeding-expectations-for-4-years]]
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blog-post nic // reflection
God Provides When He Takes Away
This post is meant to serve as a reminder that God's provision is about more than the chronology of things happening... For example he brought me a job whe
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protected-post nic // protected
Reflections on RTO 2025
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thoughts nic // homelab
💭 My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup
great post on self-hosting. I think in a lot of similar ways and had a siar journey. There's things I want to accomplish
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-07-24 Notes
yesterday: [[ 2025-07-23-notes ]] Desktop Plasma updated after a reboot, and I'm not gonna try to rollback but it's a little messed up so I need to fi
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-07-23 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-07-22-notes]] Blog / Dev Started [[setting-up-a-laptop-in-2025]] need to get my ssh keys and stuff over to my server Church Continued work on
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-07-22 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-07-20-notes]] working on finalizing [[after-exceeding-expectations-for-4-years]] Bible Project I lead discussion next month at Men's grou
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note nic // olivet
Olivet Men's Group August 2025
1 John 3: 7-10 for men's group in August 2025 ???+ note "1 John 3: 7-10" ???+ note "verse 7 from ESV" The difference I note is that ESV
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blog-post nic // git
You suck at git - but it's honestly fine
Git is for everyone I just started listening to [localfirst.fm podcast](https://www.localfirst.fm/) podcast and would recommend it after 2 episodes. In the firs
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thoughts nic // ai
💭 It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich
Great read on LLM output, and the slop that's already been dumped into the internet. I've become a pretty heavy AI user
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-07-20 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-07-19-notes]] Today started [[you-suck-at-git-but-its-honestly-fine]] made great progress on protecting some markata posts with an encryption
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-07-19 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-07-18-notes]] Notes working on protecting blog posts with a password somehow too pretty cool that I can pull in RSS but it pulls in the whole
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protected-post nic // protected
After Exceeding Expectations For 4 Years
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thoughts nic // llm
💭 Anthropic Is Bleeding Out
Ah... so things are rough on the business side according to Edward Zitron An intere|ing note is that anthropic models m
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-07-18 Notes
yesterday : [[2025-07-17-notes]] News I got news that my job will be moved to on-site only... I plan to make my case but I have low hopes and I'm not sure
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protected-post nic // protected
Example Protected Post
🔒 This content is password protected.
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thoughts nic // windsurf
💭 Thread by @windsurf_ai on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
Claude 4 is pretty impressive, I'm enjoying using it at work and now I'll certainly burn some credits at home. Also I l
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-07-17 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-07-16-notes]] Notes Heidi liked the white parking signs, printed another one Wins Finished up post on [[daily-notes-neovim-plugin]] Basically
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til nic // nextcloud
Add yourself to www-data to view your Nextcloud data on the filesystem
I am working on using [[gotify-cli-for-notifying-me-of-nextcloud-uploads]] and I'll start by running the gotify cli as my user so I'll need to be able
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note nic // neovim
Daily Notes Neovim Plugin
What? Windsurf helped me whip up a neovim plugin for my daily notes workflows. It has a few features that make my note taking workflow day-to-day a tiny bit mor
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thoughts nic // ai
💭 AI INTERVIEWS ARE HERE!! SO I TROLLED ONE TO SHOW YOU... - You...
AI has provided a lot of value in my life for sure... but it's still not my favorite piece of technology, and the nearis
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-07-16 Notes
yesterday - [[2025-07-15-notes]] Notes working on parking signs for heidi need to buy black and green PETG probably For Today I'm going to try replacing my
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blog-post nic // homelab
Using restic to backup my home directory
Intro I need to backup my personal $HOME to my NAS cause there's a lot in there, and mostly my git projects with .env files all over. Plus some docker data
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blog-post nic // nextcloud
gotify cli for notifying me of nextcloud uploads
The Ask I was looking for a way to get notified from nextcloud when files were uploaded to a certain directory. This is because the upload is very spotty due to
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project nic // projects
Shotput
This is from [[i-built-a-simple-app-for-adding-images-to-my-blog]] Overview Shotput is a simple webapp backed by a git repo that allows you to paste a screensho
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-07-15 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-07-14-notes]] Today church sermon upload respond to Michael Affine More with affine and mind-mapping (I bookmarked a TT BJJ video I wanted to
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-07-14 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-07-13-notes]] Yesterday I basically got 0 things done computer-wise. So this is mostly a copy paste of my morning notes from yesterday: Affine
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blog-post nic // python
Python editable installs and nested scripts
Intro I have been working towards a standard structure for all my python projects - and I mean much more than just `uv init` or something along those lines. But
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note nic // typing
typ.ing personal best
I can't even remember if I've hit 130 WPM in a typing challenge before, let alone at 98%+ accuracy!  Writing Write up more
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thoughts nic // agile
💭 Agile Was Never Your Problem Pt 1/2 | The Cynical Developer
Love this post - feels like it vindicates a lot of my opinions (that I've been pretty loud about professionally). I love
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-07-12 Notes
yesterday: [[2025-07-11-notes]] Today Playing in Waupaca volleyball tournament Saw news about OpenAI Windsurf deal falling through Started setting up [affine](h
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note nic // volleyball
Waupaca Boatride Volleyball Tournament
[website](https://www.waupacaboatride.com/) 2025 Played with Ming, John, and Daniel We honestly didn't play great - some good passes but many errors defini
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thoughts nic // windsurf
💭 OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf’s CEO is going to...
Welp I'm not upset the OpenAI deal fell through (I mean probably not great for those at Codeium, but I don't want these
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-07-11 Notes
yesterday [[2025-07-10-notes]] I am continuing to work on my dev experience a little bit... it's been a long time since I got into it but I'm very spr
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til nic // lua
Lua type hinting - undefined global
I have tons of linting errors in my nvim config, partly because I use Lazyvim plus a set of poorly written customizations that have traveled with me for a while
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blog-post nic // homelab
The Homelab
The Lab This is the landing page for my homelab posts. It isn't a feed because I will write things here and link out to relevant parts of the homelab. I&#x
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blog-post nic // homelab
Ghost
Intro Ghost is my primary application server. These are the specs... I wrote about some of the specs in [[homelab-journey-part-1#current-homelab-setup]] but her
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thoughts nic // docker
💭 Docker Brings Compose to the AI Agent Era | Docker
Seems like docker is leaning harder into compose - which is great for me as a heavy compose user. I had heard about some
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thoughts nic // systemd
💭 Tyblog | systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success
I found this post on systemd this morning, and although I've been a Linux user for around 6 years now, there's some leve
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-07-10 Notes
[[2025-07-09-notes]] from yesterday I have temporal stuff kind of going with postiz in a windsurf session working on [[thoughts-to-nostr]] Been cleaning up my z
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-07-09 Notes
[[2025-07-08-notes]] from yesterday [[thoughts-to-nostr]] I feel a litte stuck on this... kind of blocked on temporal organization and not knowing what to do ne
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project nic // projects
Pilgrims Creek
What Podcast with Cameron for weary theologians. We spend time discussing interesting topics, approaches to theology, etc. all from the perspective of travelers
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dailyNote nic // daily-note
2025-07-08 Notes
Today I consolidated homelab-social-media-pipelines into homelab-temporal, which is the app repo. I am tracking this stuff in a [kanboard ticket](https://kanboa
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thoughts nic // nas
💭 restic · Backups done right!
Welp, I need to be backing up my desktop home directory, specifically a directory of docker volume data... I thought dup
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thoughts nic // lazygit
💭 Add confirmation for hard reset by stefanhaller · Pull Request...
I float between lazygit and gitui still for my terminal-based git flow and I want to lean into lazygit more fully. One i
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thoughts nic // homelab
💭 HomeBox
I stumbled onto homebox this morning scrolling a newsletter and it looks like something I've been lightly thinking about
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blog-post nic // postiz
Testing a Postiz Change Locally (IT WORKS!)
Setup I am working on a pipeline at home to integrate my blog with social media a little more. One of the things I want to do is automatically post [[my-thought
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thoughts nic // k8s
💭 postmarketOS // v24.06: The One With Over 250 Devices
This is the OS you can install onto an old phone to run linux on it - using this OS you could set-up a cluster of phones
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thoughts nic // k8s
💭 Self-Hosting A Cluster On Old Phones | Hackaday
Came across a blog and article on using a mobile OS to self-host a cluster on old phones... I happen to keep several old
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blog-post nic // reflectioin
July 4 - Freedom From Protection
A Renewed Appreciation for Independence Day Independence Day has become more important to me as I've gained some perspective on the world, and learned that
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blog-post nic // autism
Liquids vs Liquid and How My Wife Forgot I was Autistic
A Comical Story My wife said a somewhat rhetorical question yesterday "is it liquid or liquids when..." and I frankly don't remember the exact en
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thoughts nic // uv
💭 Build backend | uv
uv build backend ready for production! Dang... I need to visit my hatch builds, I love hatch's simplicity specifically w
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blog-post nic // mcp
MCPHub with Windsurf
I came across [mcphub](https://github.com/samanhappy/mcphub) today and got the motivation to try it out... I use AI tools like Windsurf and Roo across multiple
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til nic // nostr
Nostr hex key
you can hexify your [[nostr]] key when you need to sometimes which I needed to for [[postiz]] (link with a thought I'm sure I have on postiz)
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blog-post nic // nostr
Nostr
???+ note "How to start..." [The nostr docs](https://nostr.com/) Nostr is a very intriguing protocol for communication that lends itself to a decentrl
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thoughts nic // kanboard
💭 TimoStahl/kanboard_plugin_bigboard: A Kanboard that can displa...
I use kanboard to keep myself focused at home - it's great because it's simple enough but does have complex features (th
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thoughts nic // blog
💭 { TechDufus } | Blog
Just came across TechDufus today... love his blog style... it's beautiful... definitely not gonna potentially rip this o
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thoughts nic // todo
💭 { TechDufus } | Building a Talos Kubernetes Homelab with Terra...
Caught this blog post from Waylon - I added this guy to my RSS feed to star this post. I have tried talos with terraform
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thoughts nic // second-brain
💭 Also done with second braining
Oddly enough I am just now really getting into the second brain idea... a zettlekasten has been taking shape in my life
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blog-post nic // homelab
Github Star Sorter
I wrote a simple app to sort, tag, and create tickets at home for my github stars... As of right now I have 1.3k stars and no convenient way to view them or rem
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blog-post nic // great-wolf-lodge
Great Wolf Lodge
IDK WHEN walkie-talkies! 2025 (Gurnee) We returned to Gurnee in June of 2025 (so a summer trip) and had a great time. We experienced the bigger slides on this g
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project nic // projects
gwl-margarita-tracker
Track discount on margarita refills over the lifetime of this mug [github repo](https://github.com/pypeaday/gwl-margarita-tracker) ![20250701131846_9a61924b.png
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thoughts nic // python
💭 Switching pip to uv in a Dockerized Flask / Django App — Nick ...
It's nice to see uv gaining popularity in so many places - and replacing vanilla pip with uv in containerized environmen
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blog-post nic // cooking
Pulled Pork Notes
June 26 2025 I smoked 2 pork shoulders Heavy application of Jack Daniels default pork rub + Meat Church's the Holy Gospel Hot Honey Ham + Perfect Pork (fes
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thoughts nic // webdev
💭 Containers are available in public beta for simple, global, an...
I've been learning a lot just about basic web-development as I work on my blog. I'm not actively learning the ins and ou
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thoughts nic // reflection
💭 Genesis 1 and Its ANE Polemic, Part 2 - Dr. Michael Heiser
I'm preparing for a conversation on Genesis 1 this morning, and so I of course wanted to read through a few of Mike's ol
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thoughts nic // ai
💭 Notes – 06:11 Sun 22 Jun 2025 – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)
I see that most of the tech world, at least in public, leans left... which is fine. I think politically I'd have leaned
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blog-post nic // homelab
Traefik and gRPC for Temporal at home
Temporal Networking Woes Someday I will potentially write up some stuff about [[temporal]] but for now it's a workflow orchestrator that I'm intereste
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blog-post nic // homelab
Nextcloud PHP Opache Memory Consumption
Intro Today I was combing through Nextcloud, just taking a gander at the apps, updates, etc. The OPcache buffer is nearly full. To assure that all scripts can b
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thoughts nic // ai
💭 Copilot Instructions
I have tried a few different cursorrules/windsurfrules with windsurf, but I didn't even know you could give copilot cust
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blog-post nic // homelab
Quit issueing 200s for 500s
Stop this nonsense 
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thoughts nic // firefox
💭 You asked, we built it: Firefox tab groups are here
I stumbled into tab groups today when rearranging my tabs in firefox while bouncing between a few different things this
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thoughts nic // n8n
💭 Control Your n8n Instance Remotely with Telegram Bot Commands ...
I'm doing a lot of thinking and brainstorming about how I want to run some pipelines I have in my head, at home... thing
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blog-post nic // homelab
Thinking In Diagrams
Intro Something I didn't appreciate earlier on in my career (and I'm only 8 as far as the age of that career goes anyways) was thinking through proble
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blog-post nic // bible-project
What Are The Rewards In Heaven?
Intro I came across an article on the Bible Project on what it means to "store up treasures in Heaven" and it brought some clarity to the meaning of t
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thoughts nic // k8s
💭 matduggan.com/what-would-a-kubernetes-2-0-look-like/
This article was longer than I had time to really consume but a heading caught my eye that I wanted to agree with - the
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thoughts nic // homelab
💭 pypeaday/whose-turn-is-it: Simple uv webapp to determine order...
We pray together as a family every night, but every single flipping night my daughter's fight about the order we go in..
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thoughts nic // layoffs
💭 Microsoft planning thousands of job cuts aimed at salespeople,...
more cuts for the sake of AI investment... this is getting out of hand. I'm thankful that I don't work in a field that w
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thoughts nic // github
💭 microsandbox/microsandbox: Self-Hosted Plaform for Secure Exec...
There's a ton of AI related tools I want to play with, and there are several I run in docker pretty willy nilly. However
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blog-post nic // homelab
Homelab Youtube Podcasts to AudioBookShelf Pipeline
I wrote about using [[homelab-pinchflat]] for at-home mashup creation and a song flow for church. But I use it for more than, that and here's another prime
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blog-post nic // bible-project
Reflecting on BP Article on James - Faith and Works
Intro This started as one of [[my-thoughts]] and got long enough to warrant putting right in the blog Faith and works is a common point of conversation for Chri
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thoughts nic // just
💭 neverjust
Your "just" comes from seeing only the surface of the problem. Like an iceberg, what's visible is just a fraction This
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til nic // homelab
source_up for nested .envrc
TLDR I have a use case for nesting directories with cascading .envrc files. and ran into an issue where the parent environment was being reset by the child envi
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thoughts nic // digital-garden
💭 A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
I am interested in the topic of "digital gardening", and I didn't realize how long the term has been around. As a relati
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thoughts nic // aws
💭 Cross Account AWS Security Group ID Reference
I needed to update some ingress rules across several AWS accounts and ran into an issue when I had to reference a securi
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thoughts nic // spacelift
💭 Failed to load state: unsupported checkable object kind var - ...
I have spacelift stacks managed with open tofu and stacks managed with terraform... Due to this very issue I think, I ra
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thoughts nic // snowflake
💭 Snowflake Status - Certificate Authority Update for AWS Regions
A recent Snowflake issue borked some old pipelines - thankfully it appears to be a simple fix. Just goes to show you tha
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thoughts nic // blog
💭 Visualizing My Blog’s Internal Links - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Someday I will build a thing to see the relationship in my posts and notes. Right now I'm working on writing consistentl
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thoughts nic // stable-diffusion
💭 Stable Diffusion QR Code 101
My brother asked me to generate some QR codes for his link page that I manage. It's been a long time since I've used SD
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blog-post nic // homelab
U-Blue Aurora Upgrade Broke HWA Docker
I use Universal Blue's [Aurora](https://getaurora.dev/en) distribution on my daily driver desktop, and I rebooted today which led what I imagine is a kerne
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blog-post nic // reflection
Father's Day 2025
Intro I just wanted to capture some thoughts on Father's Day and how becoming a dad and raising two beautiful kids has affected my view on, or matured my v
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blog-post nic // homelab
If You Want Something Make It So - Song Style
In grad school a professor of mine, Mark Hunacek, said one of the most profound things I've ever heard to the tune "if you want it, then make it so&qu
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blog-post nic // homelab
Homelab Pinchflat
Why? I've written about [[self-hosted-media]] before and addressed some thoughts with YouTube. Lately though I've had 2 use cases for offline YouTube
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blog-post nic // test
Test Styles
Test Title Heading Content fooo bar Test Sub Heading Test Sub Sub Heading Test Sub Sub Sub Heading Test Sub Sub Sub Sub Heading Blockquote `in line code` [Link]
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blog-post nic // homelab
ZSA typing challenge issue
ZSA I love [zsa](https://zsa.io) and have been using a moonlander for a few years now. They recently launched [typ.ing](https://typ.ing) as a way to train your
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blog-post nic // homelab
Double Check Your DNS Records
My Blog I host [my blog](https://pype.dev) on cloudflare and manage my infra with terraform. I got a 522 when I went to `https://www.pype.dev` recently and I wo
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slashPage nic // now
Now
Started on [[2025-07-16-notes]] using this page for my "don't lose sight of the projects you're touching" Writing [[consider-the-point]] [[s
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slashPage nic // slash
About
Me I'm a tech nerd who's been homelabbing since 2019 - I got started with pi-hole and it's been all downhill ever since... see [[the-homelab]] fo
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slashPage nic // slash
Slash Pages
[Slash Pages](https://slashpages.net/) are a simple way to tell the world information about you You probably found this page via my [slash feed](/slash) Thought
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slashPage nic // slash
Feeds
I write about things I find interesting, here's a list of my feeds: Q: Jinja here over my markata feeds?
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slashPage nic // slash
Contact
Contact Me You can find more places to find me at [my digital harbor](https://mydigitalharbor.com/pypeaday) Email You can also email me at <nic@pype.dev>
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blog-post nic // projects
Dad, Can I Wear This?
[Repo](https://github.com/pypeaday/dad-can-i-wear-this) This is a simple FastAPI web app you can `docker compose up` alongside ollama and get some cute AI drive
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blog-post nic // projects
QuadTask
Eisenhower Matrix based task manager
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thoughts nic // dhh
💭 Normal boyhood is ADHD
I may want to write a longer post about this or just capture some quick thoughts but I appreciate DHH's take here.... AD
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thoughts nic // proton
💭 "We would be less confidential than Google" – Proton threatens...
I've been a proton user for several years now, and pay a decently hefty subscription fee for some of their services that
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thoughts nic // security
💭 Exploiting Copilot AI for SharePoint | Pen Test Partners
In hindsight this vulnerability isn't even that clever, hopefully the share holders of the companies that rushed to thro
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thoughts nic // blog
💭 slash pages
Waylon's mentioned slash pages before, but as I work on building my blog again and writing more regularly thanks to "tho
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thoughts nic // wealth
💭 The Meaning of “Mammon” in the Bible | Matthew 6:24
I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the future, planning and saving, making sure to the best of my ability and
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thoughts nic // faith
💭 N.T. Wright on The Unseen Realm & Heiser - YouTube
I don't write enough short thoughts on theology stuff, I'm usually trying to have some longer thought to unpack or to su
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thoughts nic // llm
💭 qwen3
I really don't know much about every self-hostable LLM out there... so much as happened. I am blessed at home with a pre
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blog-post nic // thoughts
Thoughts
Thoughts My thoughts are found at [my thoughts feed](/my-thoughts) [thoughts](https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com) was built by Waylon and is a place where I drop
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thoughts nic // zsa
💭 daily challenge leaderboard | typ.ing
typ.ing is like monkeytype to a degree. it's made by ZSA, who makes my keyboard, and I love the idea of a simple trainin
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thoughts nic // rss
💭 News - Apps - App Store - Nextcloud
I just started using FreshRSS to get familiar with subscribing to RSS feeds and leaning into that as opposed to social m
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thoughts nic // podcast
💭 ELEMENT.FM - unlimited podcast hosting
I heard about element.fm as a possible self-hosted podcast solution. They also have a service that looks pretty nice and
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til nic // homelab
Example For Andrew
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thoughts nic // pycon
💭 Keynote Speaker - Cory Doctorow - YouTube
What a great talk - will pull this thought into a post someday but the guy hits like 9 out of 10 on this one, great stuf
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til nic // homelab
Double check your CIDR blocks!
tl;dr Copy paste - don't rely on typing correctly... The Issue I use tailscale at home and generally love it. One thing I use it for is whitelisting - so I
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blog-post nic // homelab
I built a simple app for adding images to my blog
Quick Deets I built a simple fastAPI app called "shotput" that I run locally inside a git repo where I save images for my blog. The app is simple: upl
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thoughts nic // linux
💭 Linux Explained: What is The Linux Kernel? - YouTube
I'm getting sucked into the Linux is a kernel not an operating system crowd because tonight I realized I couldn't descri
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thoughts nic // tailscale
💭 What are these 100.x.y.z addresses? · Tailscale Docs
I have had serious issues with a whitelist I set in my traefik config and then reaching some services on my tailnet... t
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blog-post nic // reflection
I love an expert in their craft
Presence of an Expert Our AC died, or has been showing signs of dying recently, and regardless of the finality of its death, our house hasn't been getting
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blog-post nic // reflection
Autism ADHD and the Doshas
Introduction I was recently diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder Level 1 and ADHD, the inattentive type. I suppose, AuDHD for short. There are many reasons w
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blog-post nic // homelab
homelab-journey-part-1
Introduction I want to start writing about my homelab and this first post can be a short introduction to how I got into homelabbing and a review of my current h
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blog-post nic // homelab
Backups interrupted by full disk usage
I just got a message from HCIO that my primary backup script is late... This happens every now and then but I decided to check on it... Quickly `ssh` in and I n
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blog-post nic // tech
Windows Update Broke Wifi
Windows Update Behind My Back After an unapproved windows update on a machine I help administer for my church, the wifi became super finnicky. I had installed a
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blog-post nic // queso
Queso Notes
It occured to me that this is my blog... I can write about whatever the heck I want! May 2025 Made 2 quesos very similar - they consisted of: 1.5 lbs ground bee
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til nic // infrastructure
Aurora U-Blue ZRAM Config
I keep running out of space with my swap getting maxxed out... I don't know why but U-Blue uses Zram already and apparently I can easily override the defau
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til nic // tech
Backups are dope
I accidently chown'd -R an app directory and it totally screwed up the database folder. Luckily I zfs replicate my docker volumes to another drive even on
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blog-post nic // reflection
I Hate Corporate America
Rant The longer I'm in corporate America - and the longer I homelab and listen to podcasts - a cliché truth becomes more and more apparent to me, which is
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til nic // python
Pandas.DataFrame info always answers and is sometimes right
TIL Today I learned that the `.info()` of a `pandas.DataFrame` will always give you an answer, but it is wildly difficult to know how accurate it is, because it
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til nic // homelab
SearXNG
I heard about [SearXNG](https://searxng.org) on a couple podcasts and saw it trending on GitHub several times before I finally decided to stand it up. I used i
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thoughts nic // open-webui
💭 SearXNG | Open WebUI
I've been meaning to set searxng for a while - it comes out of the box with khoj but I want an instance for open-webui a
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blog-post nic // faith
A New Perspective on Being God's Child
Intro I was in men's group the other day, and one of the things that came up almost inevitably is a debate between God's sovereignty and predestinatio
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thoughts nic // tailscale
💭 Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium
My jetKVM is a flipping dream - plug and play kvm that worked out of the box. I want to put tailscale on it so I can hit
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thoughts nic // tailscale
💭 Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium
My jetKVM is a flipping dream - plug and play kvm that worked out of the box. I want to put tailscale on it so I can hit
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thoughts nic // tailscale
💭 Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium
My jetKVM is a flipping dream - plug and play kvm that worked out of the box. I want to put tailscale on it so I can hit
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thoughts nic // tailscale
💭 Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium
My jetKVM is a flipping dream - plug and play kvm that worked out of the box. I want to put tailscale on it so I can hit
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thoughts nic // tailscale
💭 Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium
My jetKVM is a flipping dream - plug and play kvm that worked out of the box. I want to put tailscale on it so I can hit
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thoughts nic // tailscale
💭 Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium
My jetKVM is a flipping dream - plug and play kvm that worked out of the box. I want to put tailscale on it so I can hit
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thoughts nic // tailscale
💭 Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium
My jetKVM is a flipping dream - plug and play kvm that worked out of the box. I want to put tailscale on it so I can hit
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thoughts nic // tailscale
💭 Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium
My jetKVM is a flipping dream - plug and play kvm that worked out of the box. I want to put tailscale on it so I can hit
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thoughts nic // tailscale
💭 Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium
My jetKVM is a flipping dream - plug and play kvm that worked out of the box. I want to put tailscale on it so I can hit
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blog-post nic // python
My MCP Configuration
My MCP The Tools Docker RAGDocs Sequential Thinking Git Not Tried Yet https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/sqlite The Config
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blog-post nic // linux
I was wrecked by a weird combo of >> and -e
TL;DR If state matters then check it in the beginning or handle it on a failure... Let me explain I ran into some trouble recently _almost_ losing some encrypte
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til nic // infrastructure
Grafana + Gotify for push notifications
It's easy to configure push notifications through Gotify from Grafana by setting up a generic `Webhook` Alerting Contact Point... The parameters are: HTTP
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til nic // cli
Monolith - download and save site as html
TIL: Monolith I needed to save a website earlier and this was just what I needed... https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith
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til nic // zfs
SMB with ZFS on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install -y samba \\ then set sharesmb=on \\ chown the user \\ smbpasswd <user> -a \\ then mount with user/password from other machine
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slashPage nic // someday
Someday
Purpose of the Page Projects, tools, and technologies I want to explore someday. This is my queue of things to check out, organized by category. Each item has a
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blog-post nic // infrastructure
Recovering from zpool corruption when you're short a drive
can only mount tank RO so can't rename also can't detach which is what I'd want Could import pool witn -N to not mount any datasets detach and at
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til nic // nostr
Using my own domain on nostr
After generating a keypair on a nostr app (I started with primal) I copied my public key to `/.well-known/nostr.json` and put that at the root of my site at `ht
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blog-post nic // bible-project
The Design of Genesis 1-11 pt 1
Genesis 1 There is a cyclical pattern of Genesis 1-11. Introduction 1:1 may be a summary heading rather than the first "verse". Chaos The narrative be
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til nic // infrastructure
Deployments are not StatefulSets
I was debugging some ArgoCD stuff earlier today and I love using k9s to explore my k8s resources. The TLDR is that I put some bad env vars in the `global` value
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thoughts nic // self-host
💭 Self-Hosting selfh.st/icons With Git-Sync
I like a nice icon for dashboards I've put together and having a convenient way to load them up off line would be nice
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thoughts nic // argocd k8s
💭 Mastering Argo CD image updater with Helm: a complete configur...
image updater is a great little tool that I'm using at work and I want to use it in the best way. I'll come back to this
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thoughts nic // pilgrims-creek
💭 Craig
Craig is a discord bot to do multi-track recording, seems like a super easy way to get started with a podcast where the
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thoughts nic // linux.swap
💭 memory - Check which processes are eating swap on Linux? - Sup...
I often max my swap on all my machines, and I still have no idea what I'm dong different than anyone else. But using to
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thoughts nic // llm
💭 🏡 Home | Open WebUI
I've been using openwebui at home, mostly with llama3.2, to do some basic things - meal planning and short script genera
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thoughts nic // k8s
💭 Do you really need Kubernetes?
The other shoe just dropped
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thoughts nic // homelab
💭 audiobookshelf
Audiobookshelf looks like a solid competitor for booksonic. I've liked the simple subsonic api driven nature of booksoni
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thoughts nic // ai
💭 Assistants API overview - OpenAI API
OpenAI assistants seem like a sweet idea... I wonder if I could use one as a project manager that manages my issues and
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thoughts nic // k8s
💭 Do you need Kubernetes?
do you though?
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til nic // python
docker context (and an issue to question your sanity)
docker contexts are great, would recommend putting them in your prompt though (via starship or something else)... here's why I like to manage my containers
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til nic // python
Add a healthcheck to your FastAPI app
I'm building a few FastAPI apps to throw in docker and run on my homelab... I wanted to add healthchecks and here's a simple way to do it Make sure to
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til nic // docker
Jellyfin container updates for HWE + AMD
I use LSIO Jelyfin container for the easy addon they provide for AMD GPUs but I couldn't get trickplay to work with HWE... There was almost NOTHING on the
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til nic // infrastructure
statically.io to help me out
[statically.io](https://statically.io) offers a CDN that I'm going to try to lean into for images in my blog. My hope is that the builds get and stay fast,
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blog-post nic // bible-project
The Flood Story - Quilt Analogy
The Flood Story in the Hebrew Bible I'm slowly making my way through some Bible Project classes online because Tim Mackie is a fantastic teacher and BP has
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blog-post nic // bible-project
The Flood Story - Types and Baptism
The Flood Story and Jesus Jesus brings up the Flood story from Genesis just one time (in the recorded teachings we have). First to set the scene, Jesus and his
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til nic // linux
D and uninterruptable sleep
Htop I recently have been having significant home server issues, and that's not the point of this - today I learned what `D` state is when looking at htop.
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til nic // linux
rsync like a pro
I am moving a hefty amount of data to a new ZFS pool due to some corruption and I want to avoid using `zfs send/recv` for this just to make sure I don't pr
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til nic // linux
hostnamectl to easily change hostname
hostnamectl is apparently a linux utility for easily changing your hostname in a variety of ways I learned there's transient and static hostnames, so that&
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blog-post nic // faith
Advent 2024 - Peace
Scripture Luke 2:14 (ESV): 14 “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!” Edification There is a word we probably kno
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blog-post nic // bible-project
How To Survive The Flood
There a lot of flood stories throughout the history of the world, and the Bible is no different in this regard. God warns Noah of a de-creation event, whereby h
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til nic // tech
Stylus for custom webpage themes
the Logos web app is DISGUSTINGY bright/white - enough to actually ruin your morning... Thankfully there's an extension called [stylus](https://addons.mozi
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blog-post nic // bible-project
The Two Houses
The Two Houses Context Reflection From the visual commentary Tim calls out a few things: `the rock` is supposed to first call us back to earlier in the sermon w
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til nic // homelab
DNS Broke After Reboot - Ubuntu 22.04
I rebooted by server and DNS broke randomly. I have no idea if it was from a kernel update or what but that's the issue with Ubuntu I guess... After much t
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til nic // linux
Restart KDE Plasma
Plasma shits the bed a little too often on Fedora for me right now but I finally have a quick fix...
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til nic // infrastructure
OPNSense Bootstrap Recovery
enabling DHCP WAN port (`dhclient <iface>`)- running the bootstrap script - `sh /usr/local/sbin/opnsense-bootstrap`
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blog-post nic // blog
Recovering OPNSense
I woke up to faulty internet and after some troubleshooting it turns out the root zfs dataset that OPNSense boots from got corrupted... PRO-TIP - Auto backup yo
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blog-post nic // bible-project
BP - The Golden Rule
Matthew 7:12 What do I desire that people "do to [me]"? Help if I need it - I want to live in a world where humans are helpful Listen to me and unders
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blog-post nic // bible-project
Reflection - Wisdom in Relationships 2
Passage Reflection James builds on this with `if any of you lacks wisdom then ask for wisdom it will be given to you`. James is arming us with some specifics fr
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blog-post nic // bible-project
Reflection - Wisdom in Relationships
This morning I finally felt some motivation for a short Bible Project video. The app is great (💯 would recommend) and gives me daily reminders that are unobtrus
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til nic // linux
Docker copy and chown
COPY --chown=myuser:mygroup source-file target-file
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til nic // homelab
docker-remote-add
Add from url?? ADD http://example.com/cars.csv /tmp/cars.csv Unpack automatically!? (.tar, .tar.gz, .tgz, .bz2, .tbz2, .txz, .zip) ADD myapp.tar.gz /opt/myapp/
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blog-post nic // python
Switching from AltaCV to RenderCV for my Resume
I was using a fun LaTex-based project for managing my resume called [AltaCV](https://github.com/liantze/AltaCV). I loved the customization and was familiar with
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til nic // homelab
Upgrading your kernel can F you up... whoops
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/update-error-with-coral-tpu-drivers.136888/#post-608975 I lost TPU for frigate, this saved me ass
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til nic // vscode
Fonts in VS C**e
Jet Brains has to be specified 'JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono'
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til nic // cli
Customize K9s
To customize k9s use the skins from catppuccin or the ones k9s supplies Then edit your k9s config Other k9s skins are available [here](https://github.com/derail
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til nic // cli
Git fetch failing - check your config
I started deploying a website to Cloudflare on a branch called `pages`. Similar to one of the GH Pages deployment patterns. But when my CI was pushing the branc
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til nic // cli
Git repo specific SSH Key!
git config --add --local core.sshCommand 'ssh -i <<<PATH_TO_SSH_KEY>>>'
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blog-post nic // bible-project
On Earth as It Is in Heaven
On Earth as It Is in Heaven [Video](https://bibleproject.com/explore/video/on-earth-as-it-is-in-heaven/) Sermon on the Mount 3 chapters filled with phrases that
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til nic // homelab
DHCP Restart to Save Ubuntu 22.04 Server Networking
I moved a computer to a remote location for an off-site backup but when it was powered on it wouldn't show up on any networks. A solution that got me back
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blog-post nic // bible-project
Chaos Dragon
Dragons are metaphorical images in the Bible Goliath -> armor descriptions Leviathan Dragon slayers can be enticed to become dragons themselves Jesus is the
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til nic // homelab
Simple Port Forwarding OPNSense
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=8783.0
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til nic // homelab
Refresh Nextcloud Groupfolders after messing around on the filesystem
Exec in as www-data and run ./occ groupfolders:scan folder_id -v (the -v to see what it's doing)
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til nic // zfs
lsof to find what's using your filesystem
lsof | grep /tank/nas shows me what is using my nas at any time!
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til nic // zfs
Changing ZFS key for child datasets of encrypted dataset after migration
➜ pihole sudo zfs load-key -L file:///path/to/.zfs.tank.key tank/encrypted/vms/arch-sandbox ➜ pihole sudo zfs change-key -o keylocation=file:///path/to/.zfs.tan
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til nic // linux
Convert Word Doc to PDF with Headless Libreoffice
I've been using paperless-ngx to manage all my documents, but every once in a while I'll get a `.docx` file to deal with... Turns out Libreoffice has
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blog-post nic // olivet
olivet-mens-group-james-2023
James 2023 study of the book of James BP The Guy Greek: Iakobos (Jacob in English) Jacob is one of Jesus' half-brothers who became a leader of the Jerusale
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til nic // cli
FFMPEG 10-bit videos to 8-bit
`ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -map 0 -c:v libx264 -vf format=yuv420p -c:a copy output.mp4`
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til nic // linux
i3-Like keyboard mapping in Pop_OS
I was introduced to tiling window managers through i3, which I use heavily on one of my machines. I have switched to Pop_OS! at home though, which has a tiling
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til nic // linux
Use non-standard named ssh keys with github
I was getting `(publickey denied)` when trying to push to GH using ssh. When I tested the connection I saw that a bunch of keys in ``~/.ssh/ were being attempte
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til nic // homelab
Reminder about ssh-copy-id for SSH and Ansible
`ssh-copy-id -i my.key.pub <hostname probably from tailscale>` this makes sure I can run ansible from my desktop against VMs on my server easily if they
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til nic // linux
Adding docker daemon.json broke docker
in /lib/systemd/system/docker.service there is an ExecStart command that got placed there when I setup Docker with Ansible - it threw the -H flag which told the
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til nic // vim
suda.vim for sudo access to files
I regularly need to edit system config files - take /etc/sanoid/sanoid.conf as an example... I'll want to play with something but if I don't start Neo
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blog-post nic // zfs
Systemd timer for syncoid
I have a bash script called `syncoid-job` which boils down to a barebones - I want to run this script hourly but as my user (notice the no-privilege-elevation f
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til nic // linux
Pipe to a pager to preserve console output in SSH session
I'm playing with my ansible playbook in a remote tmux session, and I'm no wiz so I don't know the ins and outs, but I can't scroll up to get
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til nic // homelab
Cron for Nextcloud in Docker
AJAX wasn't cutting it, traditional crontab in containers doesn't make much sense to me, webcron is recommended but I don't want to register with
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til nic // python
Call basicConfig to get Python log messages in iPython
Logging instead of printing I am trying to adopt `logger.debug` instead of `print` but ran into a confusing thing in ipython during Advent of Code... I riddled
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til nic // vim
New lines in Markdown tables
I wanted to break down some long lines in a Markdown table cell to make it look nicer on my blog but \n didn't do anything for me... turns out <br/>
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blog-post nic // linux
Description of my proposed vimconf 2022 talk
Switching to Vim opened a whole new world to me for interacting with a computer and for getting things done. Before I adopted Vim I used GUIs for everything bec
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til nic // linux
Make a series of directories fast!
mkdir s{1..10} will make directories s1, s2, ... s10 in one command!
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blog-post nic // bible-project
Hebrew Bible Full Class
[Class link](https://bibleproject.com/classroom-alpha/education-videos/session-1-what-earth-hebrew-bible/) [Classroom notes (Must be on home network)](http://pa
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til nic // vim
Case-insensitive search in Vim
/mysearch\c will match mysearch, MYSEARCH, mYSeArCh...
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blog-post nic // bible-project
Faithful
[Link](https://bibleproject.com/bible-studies/faithful/) Notes !!! Exodusds 34:6 Faithfulness - Emet (can be translated 'Truth') Related to "Amen
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til nic // zfs
Limit zfs list to avoid docker vomit
zfs list has a flag -r, but if you use zfs driver for docker then you'll get flooded with every docker volume in the world. zfs list -r -d N will limit the
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til nic // vim
Use the right lspsage, you dope!
If you think glepnir/lspsaga.nvim config will work with tali5/lspsaga.nvim installed... you're in for a rude awakening. Double check your forks folks!
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blog-post nic // bible-project
Sabbath
[Link to study](https://bibleproject.com/bible-studies/sabbath/) Creation Brougt to completion on the seventh day in Genesis 1. It is the only day that does not
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til nic // homelab
Don't forget to load XMP!
Bought some DDR4-3600 speed RAM but only seeing 2666? Load up the BIOS, find DRAM config or something similar, and make sure to load the XMP profile to get that
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til nic // homelab
You can embed gifs?!
I learned you can embed gifs and stuch in things other than GH personal pages! So here I'll keep ones I like and might use later
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til nic // homelab
My PassMark Scores
!!! note "Babyblue v2" !!! note "Venus " !!! note "Hogwarts" !!! note "Server 2 ... Change the name" !!! note "Serv
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blog-post nic // bible-project
Chara-Joy
[link](https://bibleprojectz.com/bible-studies/chara-joy/) Chara / Joy There are several words for similar feelings - example like `joy` has several synonyms. S
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til nic // zfs
Quick setup of ZFS encrytped datasets with sane permissions
Assuming you have a pool called `tank`... And assuming you have an encrypted dataset (See [Jim Saltar's short intro](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/0
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til nic // linux
Check Your BIOS Version On Ubuntu
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version
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blog-post nic // bible-project
Abraham and Melchizedek
[link to study](https://bibleproject.com/bible-studies/abraham-and-melchizedek/) Video Priests God creates Eden in which he places humans to be his royal image
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til nic // linux
Append string to list of files with xarg
❯ find . -name "requirements.in" -print0 | xargs -0 sh -c 'for arg in "$@"; do echo "awscli" >>"$arg"; done&#
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blog-post nic // bible-project
Tree of Life
Video Eden Biblical story begins in a garden, which is presented as a type of Temple. The top (center) is the Tree of Life, which represents God's life and
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blog-post nic // bible-project
Shalom and Peace
[study link](https://bibleproject.com/bible-studies/shalom-peace/) Peace !!! note "" In Hebrew the word is `Shalom` (Greek: Eirene). Basic biblical me
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til nic // cli
Destroying Tmux sessions with fzf
I use Tmux and Vim for most of my workflow, but I end up with a lot of dangling tmux sessions that dont' really need to persist... but killing them one at
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blog-post nic // bema
078 Silent Years - Essenes
[link to presentation](https://bemadiscipleship.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/BEMA+078+Silent+Years+Essenes-v2.pdf) Hellenism During the "silent years" H
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blog-post nic // bema
077 Silent Years - Herodians
Herodians show up twice in the Gospels, Josephus talks about them a bit as well. There is a lot of hsitorical debate that surrounds the Herodians. Like Republic
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blog-post nic // bema
076 Silent Years - Sadducees
[Link to presentation](https://bemadiscipleship.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/BEMA+076+Silent+Years+Sadducees.pdf) Sadducees Often we in the modern time totally co
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blog-post nic // bema
075 Silent Years - Welcome to Hellenism
Hellenism For the first time in history, Greeks redefined worldfiew to be cenetered around the individual. Prior to Hellenism, worldviews centered around pleasi
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til nic // cli
Check your SMART status with smartctl
https://www.simplified.guide/linux/disk-health-check Install For ubuntu/debian based distros (which is what I primarly use presently) `sudo apt update -y &&
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blog-post nic // bema
074 - Silent Years - Synagogue
[Link to presentation](https://bemadiscipleship.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/BEMA+074+Silent+Years+Synagogue-v2.pdf) Judaism Modern Judaism is very different from
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blog-post nic // bema
Session 3 Intro
Intro Session 1: Torah Session 2: Prophets and Writings Review Torah Big idea: partnership Basis of partnership / meet the characters (Genesis) God chooses a pa
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blog-post nic // python
Benchmark your disks with fio
Intro I use ZFS at home in my homelab for basically all of my storage... Docker uses ZFS backend, all my VMs have their `.qcow2` images in their own zfs dataset
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blog-post nic // books
Screwtape
Chapters Below are just quick notes or quotes from each chapter as a reminder of what to go back to chat about. This isn't intended to be in-depth by any s
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til nic // homelab
Paperless-NGX filtering on IDs instead of values
To filter for saved views from the admin console you have to use the `id` of the tag you are using to filter on... Ex: filtering for tags "Inbox" does
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til nic // linux
Mounting exFAT USB in Linux
Steps `sudo fdisk -l` then look for the device and partition get the Type column mount Example
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til nic // homelab
Xrdp-Authentication-Required-To-Create-Managed-Color-Device
I just need to RDP into an Ubuntu box via Remmina and everytime I login I have to authenticate to create a color managed device... which I don't even know
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til nic // zfs
ZFS Permissions for Sanoid/Syncoid
`zfs allow -u $USER clone,load-key,create,destroy,mount,mountpoint,receive,send,rollback,compression,snapshot,hold,keylocation,bookmark tank` load-key only need
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blog-post nic // homelab
kvm-network-interface-via-nat-ubuntu-20
I have started using VMs more and more in my development workflow and it's impossible to work in a VM without an internet connection for me most of the tim
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til nic // linux
cheat on your man
`man` can be a pain to read... and there's lots of alternatives out there and one I've just started playing with is [cheat](https://github.com/cheat/c
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til nic // homelab
Reset SSH key passphrase
I got into a pickle where I encrypted the ssh keys I use for my SSH connections on LAN, but then I couldn't run my ansible playbook on my server! ssh-keyge
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til nic // python
Add colored indicators to your dataframes html representation
[Mike Driscoll](https://twitter.com/driscollis) recently tweeted about making colored out with pandas DataFrames and I just had to try it for myself Use Case Fi
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til nic // linux
Filtering emails with core utils
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til nic // homelab
Reindex Nextcloud After Adding Data via CLI
My Nextcloud woes I wrote [here]("nextcloud-permissions-with-zfs-and-ansible-nas") about setting up `www-data` as the owner of any directories you wan
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til nic // homelab
arr client config
TIL that when setting up download clients for radarr/sonarr/lidarr/readarr/bazarr/prowlarr that you can utilize internal DNS and instead of hardcoding an IP add
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til nic // homelab
Add space to your LVM on Ubuntu
I ran out of space on the SSD in my server when doing some file transfers but only 100GB was used of a 256 GB SSD? LVM When installing Ubuntu live server the de
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til nic // homelab
Local DNS with Pi-hole
Spoilers Tailscale is way easier than this... I was doing this local DNS overwrite in Pi-hole before running tailscale and I haven't just totally "kic
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til nic // homelab
Netplan change from Focal to Jammy
I am revamping my home server and bumped myself early up to Jammy Jellyfish... however to my peril I reused my netplan config and after hitting my server with t
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til nic // zfs
See ZFS snapshot disk usage
As I was cleaning up my NAS recently I noticed that I ran out of storage even though my disk usage looked pretty low... turns out I was keeping a mega-ton of ZF
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til nic // linux
Remove ZFS Dataset Specific Snapshots
I started my homelab journey being super naive about ZFS and how to manage the filesystem... that bit me in the butt when transfering a ton of files out of fold
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til nic // homelab
Nextcloud permissions with ZFS and Ansible-NAS
TL;DR As the nextcloud docs say... if you want to write to an external volume that location has to be writeable by the user/group `www-data` on the host system.
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til nic // vim
Filepath Completion in Neovim
I've had `Plug 'hrsh7th/cmp-path'` in my plugins for ever but didn't notice until recently that I wasn't getting any filepath completio
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til nic // vim
Plug Snapshot!
:PlugSnapshot, :w ~/dotfiles/nvim/snapshot.vim... keep your config safe with git!
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til nic // tech
Plug-Snapshot-To-Save-Your-Life
If you use vim-plug for managing your vim plugins, do yourself a favor and snapshot your plugins before upgrading! `:PlugSnapshot` creates a vim.snapshot file
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til nic // python
Dataframe-To-Markdown
Pandas `pandas.DataFrame`s are pretty sweet data structures in Python. I do a lot of work with tabular data and one thing I have incorporated into some of that
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til nic // python
Dataframe-To-Styled-Html
I wrote up a little on exporting DataFrames to markdown and html [here](/dataframe-to-markdown) But I've been playing with a web app for with lists and whi
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blog-post nic // python
Wish-List-With-Fastapi
Amazon has crossed the line with me just one too many times now so we are looking to drop them like every other Big Tech provider.... However, one key feature o
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til nic // git
Git-Bisect
I try to commit a lot, and I also try to write useful tests appropriate for the scope of work I'm focusing on, but sometimes I drop the ball... Whether by
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til nic // python
Pandas-String-Contains
TL;DR `pandas.Series.str.contains` accepts regular expressions and this is turned on by __default__! Use case We often need to filter pandas DataFrames based on
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til nic // python
Unpack-Anywhere-With-Star
Unpacking iterables in python with `*` is a pretty handy trick for writing code that is just a tiny bit more pythonic than not. But [@Ned Batchelder](https://tw
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til nic // til
Htop
`htop` is a common command line tool for seeing interactive output of your system resource utilization, running processes, etc. I've always been super conf
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blog-post nic // til
Pipx
`pipx` is a tool I've been using to solve a few problems of mine... pinning formatting tools like `black`, `flake8`, `isort`, etc. to the same version for
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til nic // til
Fx-Json
[fx](https://github.com/antonmedv/fx) is an interactaive JSON viewer for the terminal. It's a simple tool built with Charmcli's Bubble Tea. Installati
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blog-post nic // homelab
Jellyfin-Media-Players
I use Jellyfin at home for serving up most of our media - movies and shows etc. My dream is to have a GPU capable of transcoding any and all of our media for sm
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til nic // til
Typeddict
Type hinting has helped me write code almost as much, if not more, than unit testing. One thing I love is that with complete type hinting you get a lot more out
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blog-post nic // python
And-vs-&
I often struggle to remember the correct way to do `and` type comparisons when working in pandas. I remember learning long long ago that `and` and `&` are d
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til nic // linux
File-Length
I have a specific need for counting the number of lines in a file quickly. At work we use S3 for data storage during our Kedro pipeline development, and in the
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blog-post nic // python
Ipython-Prompt
I have a [post on starship](/starship) where I have some notes on how I use starship to make my zsh experience great with a sweet terminal prompt. Now... I spen
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til nic // vim
Vim-Spell-Check
__Did you know you can spell check in Vim?!__ What is this magic??? `set: spell spelllang=en_us` Custom words? Sometimes there's things that are words to y
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blog-post nic // linux
Polybar-01
[polybar](https://github.com/polybar/polybar) is an awesome and super customizable status bar for your desktop environment. I use it with i3-gaps on Ubuntu for
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til nic // python
Deques
I am working on a project to create a small system monitoring dashboard using the python `psutil` library. The repo is [here](https://github.com/nicpayne713/not
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blog-post nic // python
Plotly-And-Streamlit
Streamlit I use `streamlit` for any EDA I ever have to do at work. It's super easy to spin up a small dashboard to filter and view dataframes in, live, wit
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blog-post nic // linux
Starship
If you spend time in the terminal then you'll want it to look somewhat pleasing to the eye. I used to ssh into servers with no customization, use `vi` to
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blog-post nic // python
self-hosted-media
Self-hosting 1 or several media servers is another common homelab use-case. Getting content for your media servers is up to you, but I'll show a few ways h
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til nic // python
Skimpy
EDA I work with data a lot, but the nature of my job isn't to dive super deep into a small amount of datasets, I'm often jumping between several proje
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blog-post nic // homelab
Truenas-And-Wireguard
NAS One of the most common use cases for self-hosting anything is a file share system. I have been a fan of [TrueNAS](https://www.truenas.com/) for a while. I
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til nic // python
Pyclean
I like to keep my workspace clean and one thing that I don't personally love looking at is the `__pycache__` directory that pops up after running some code
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til nic // python
Psutil-01
[Mike Driscoll](https://twitter.com/driscollis) has been posting some awesome posts about `psutil` lately. I'm interested in making my own system monitorin
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til nic // python
Mu
If you work with a template for several projects then you might sometimes need to do the same action across all repos. A good example of this is updating a pack
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blog-post nic // homelab
Wireguard
VPN Virtual Private Networks are a big deal, and this shouldn't be considered anything even close to a guide on using them. Here are just my notes and some
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til nic // python
Abstract-Base-Class
ABCMeta I don't do a lot of OOP currently, but I have been on a few heavy OOP projects and this `ABCMeta` and `abstractmethod` from `abc` would've bee
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til nic // python
Python-F-String-Align
I am personally trying to use `logger` instead of `print` in all of my code, however I learned from [@Python-Hub] that you can align printouts using `print` wi
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til nic // python
Python-Builtin-Calendar
Being lazy I almost exclusively use Python for my job and have been eye-balls deep in it for almost 5 years but I really lack in-depth knowledge of builtins. I
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til nic // python
Dataframe-Memory-Usage
I have often wanted to dive into memory usage for pandas DataFrames when it comes to cloud deployment. If I have a python process running on a server at home I
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til nic // homelab
Adblock-Coverage
I run pi-hole at home for ad blocking and some internal DNS/DHCP handling. __pi hole posts on the way__ One thing I've never put too much thought in is ask
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til nic // homelab
Webservers-And-Indexes
I host a lot of services in my homelab, but they're mostly dockerized applications so I have never had to care much about how content gets served up. Today
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til nic // linux
Tree
I wanted a quick way to generate an `index.html` for a directory of html files that grows by 1 or 2 files a week. I don't know any html (the files are expo
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blog-post nic // homelab
Traefik
Traefik If you don't know about [traefik](https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/) and you need a reverse-proxy then you might want to check it out. I used to use
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til nic // python
Pandas-Select-Dtypes
On my team we often have to change data types of columns in a `pandas.DataFrame` for a variety of reasons. The main one is it tends to be an artifact of EDA whe
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blog-post nic // tech
Tiddly-Wiki
[Tiddly Wiki](https://tiddlywiki.com/) is a great note taking utility for organizing non-linear notes. I used it to replace my OneNote workflow and my only comp
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til nic // bash
Stow-Target
Check out [stow](/stow) for a brief introduction to `stow` What if I want to stow a package somewhere else? Boom, that's where `-t` comes in... Maybe I don
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til nic // git
Git ammend to a commit
After carefully staging only lines related to a specific change and comitting I suddenly realized I missed one... darn, what do I do? Old me would have soft res
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til nic // bash
Stow
Stow is a great tool for managing dotfiles. My usage looks like cloning my dotfiles to my home directory, setting some environment variables via a script, then
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til nic // vim
Vim-Auto-Space
I ran into an issue where I had some copy-pasta markdown tables in a docstring but the generator I used to make the table gave me tabs instead of spaces in odd
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til nic // linux
Ubuntu-Static-Ip
Sometimes I need to manually set a static IP of a Linux machine. I generally run the latest version of Ubuntu server in my VMs at home. In Ubuntu 20 I'm ab
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blog-post nic // bema
042 The Fire of Elijah
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Session 2 Intro
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040 One Story, Two Sources
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036 The Redemption Cycle
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041 The Story Behind the Story
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044 Our Harps in the Trees
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039 A King After God's Own Heart
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043 Go in Peace
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037 A Love Story
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035 Crossroads of Destiny
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038 A Donkey Herder to Lead Us
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034 The Hardest Story in the Bible (for Mary)
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030 Lead with Your Voice
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028 Images of the Desert - Ar'ar and Tamarisk
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027 Images of the Desert - Rotem and Acacia
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026 Images of the Desert
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025 A Kingdom of What
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024 Creating a Space
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023 Falling on Joyful Faces
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022 Under the Chuppah
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021 With All Your Soul & Very
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020 With All Your Heart
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019 A Strengthened Heart
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018 A Tale of Two Kingdoms
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017 A God Who Hears the Cry
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016 Out of the Pit
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015 Into the Pit
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014 Grappling with God - Part 2
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013 Grappling with God - Part 1
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012 A Mission Realized
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011 Here I Am
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010 Walking the Blood Path
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009 Letting Go
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008 Buried in a Geneology
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007 The Preface
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006 A Tale of a Tower
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005 Misplaced Curse
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004 His Bow in the Clouds
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003 Master the Beast
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002 Knowing When to Say Enough
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001 Trust the Story
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