The Faulted Disk: harbor Replacement Writeup
The sequel to panicking-led-to-losing-my-desktop — this time the monitoring actually caught the disk dying, and nothing was lost. What happened is my replica pool — a 10.9T mirror…
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It Will Be Hard To Do More
Recently I was given a raise at work after I broached the subject with my manager. I wasn’t sure what the outcome would be but I have learned two things in nearly a decade in corpo…
Panicking Led to Losing My Desktop
False Sense of Security I thought I had backups handled… can you imagine how the rest of this post is going to go with that intro? To be fair, I do have backups figured out on my N…
The Relief of Earning
The Setup Work has been crazy for months, and I haven’t written too much about it, a few notes here and there but nothing substantial. The craziness is sourced in a pretty cliched-…
Fixing Firefox Launcher on Kubuntu 22
Problem: Firefox installed but missing from KDE/Plasma app menu Root cause: No.desktop launcher file — Firefox only worked from terminal Solution: Created desktop entry with standa…
Data Loading is a Huge Deal
I’ve been thinking about the work I am doing and have to do in my role at Cat, in Cat Autonomy, building Forge (see Forge Ahead). I feel like I have little revelations almost every…
Agents can miss obvious things too
I am working with MiniMax M.2 to vibe up some webapp ideas for Nexus and I just spent many minutes not having the app render correctly because the agent mounted the wrong directory…
The Irony of 10x
Opener Agentic coding has been an exciting change to me over the last couple of months specifically. I’ve been using AI tools for a few years now but something really shifted with…
Remote Terraform State Requires Working Traefik… DUH!
I’m working on some spring cleaning in my homelab and backed myself into a hilarious corner yesterday. I use Open Tofu for any of my Terraform needs now, and although I don’t manag…
To Live In A World Without AI
I’m finding lately that I wish we could go back to pre-ChatGPT… A world without a code-gen easy button, where “easy” was LSP autocomplete, where tools were at my fingertips rather…
- The Faulted Disk: harbor Replacement Writeup
- It Will Be Hard To Do More
- Panicking Led to Losing My Desktop
- The Relief of Earning
- Fixing Firefox Launcher on Kubuntu 22
- Data Loading is a Huge Deal
- Agents can miss obvious things too
- The Irony of 10x
- Remote Terraform State Requires Working Traefik… DUH!
- To Live In A World Without AI
- paynepride dot com outage on vacation
- My Thoughts on Beads
- Forge Ahead
- Kubernetes External Secrets Operator
- Cat Autonomy 2.0
- Learning How To Agent
- New Job - Caterpillar Autonomy
- Increase inotify limit in your CI workers
- Prettier Docker ‘ps’ Command
- Setup A Cloudflare Tunnel With Terraform
- COLUMNS Env Var For Nicer Screenshots
- UV Run + PEP 723 Is A Match Made In Heaven
- GitHub Stopped Me From Messing With The Bots
- Small Steps Towards Handling Malicious Traffic on Static Sites
- Check SWAP in htop
- Speakr For Recording and Transcribing at Home
- RepoFlow Robot User
- Use Jellyfin Tags For Content Moderation
- Chili Notes
- Sending SMS with SMTP
- Docker Compose Build From Git Repo
- 💭 uv script management
- Zsh alias for uv scripts
- Reflection - AI Work and ADHD
- Pair AceGamer Wireless PS4 Controller With PC
- Proxy Pull Docker Images From Self-Hosted Container Registry Through Self-Hosted Repoflow
- A Simple Lua Plugin To Find My Drafts
- AudioMass
- Using Litestream to Restore My Database for Easy Development
- Migrate Github Issues to Kanboard
- Using Litestream to Backup QuadTask’s SQLite DB
- Setup Remote MinIO S3 Backend Target for Litestream
- Docker Volume Mounts Link to an Inode
- You suck at git - but it’s honestly fine
- Add yourself to www-data to view your Nextcloud data on the filesystem
- gotify cli for notifying me of nextcloud uploads
- Using restic to backup my home directory
- Python editable installs and nested scripts
- Ghost
- The Homelab
- Lua type hinting - undefined global
- Testing a Postiz Change Locally (IT WORKS!)
- 💭 Build backend | uv
- MCPHub with Windsurf
- Nostr
- Nostr hex key
- Github Star Sorter
- 💭 Switching pip to uv in a Dockerized Flask / Django App — Nick …
- temporal
- Traefik and gRPC for Temporal at home
- Nextcloud PHP Opache Memory Consumption
- Quit issueing 200s for 500s
- 💭 matduggan.com/what-would-a-kubernetes-2-0-look-like/
- Thinking In Diagrams
- 💭 pypeaday/whose-turn-is-it: Simple uv webapp to determine order…
- 💭 Microsoft planning thousands of job cuts aimed at salespeople,…
- Homelab Youtube Podcasts to AudioBookShelf Pipeline
- 💭 neverjust
- source_up for nested .envrc
- Stable Diffusion QR Codes for Josh
- 💭 Snowflake Status - Certificate Authority Update for AWS Regions
- U-Blue Aurora Upgrade Broke HWA Docker
- Homelab Pinchflat
- If You Want Something Make It So - Song Style
- ZSA typing challenge issue
- Double Check Your DNS Records
- 💭 “We would be less confidential than Google” – Proton threatens…
- Example For Andrew
- I built a simple app for adding images to my blog
- Double check your CIDR blocks!
- homelab-journey-part-1
- Backups interrupted by full disk usage
- Windows Update Broke Wifi
- homelab-computer-vision-pipelines
- Backups are dope
- Aurora U-Blue ZRAM Config
- Pandas.DataFrame info always answers and is sometimes right
- SearXNG
- My MCP Configuration
- I was wrecked by a weird combo of » and -e
- Grafana + Gotify for push notifications
- SMB with ZFS on Ubuntu
- Recovering from zpool corruption when you’re short a drive
- The Importance of Nostr According to ChatGPT
- Deployments are not StatefulSets
- docker context (and an issue to question your sanity)
- Add a healthcheck to your FastAPI app
- statically.io to help me out
- D and uninterruptable sleep
- Stylus for custom webpage themes
- DNS Broke After Reboot - Ubuntu 22.04
- OPNSense Bootstrap Recovery
- docker-remote-add
- Docker copy and chown
- Switching from AltaCV to RenderCV for my Resume
- Interesting IPs between Jellyfin clients and server depending on tailscale and server address
- Upgrading your kernel can F you up… whoops
- Customize K9s
- Kanboard to keep me focused on my own ideas
- DHCP Restart to Save Ubuntu 22.04 Server Networking
- Simple Port Forwarding OPNSense
- Refresh Nextcloud Groupfolders after messing around on the filesystem
- lsof to find what’s using your filesystem
- Changing ZFS key for child datasets of encrypted dataset after migration
- Convert Word Doc to PDF with Headless Libreoffice
- Stable Diffusion Notes
- FFMPEG 10-bit videos to 8-bit
- i3-Like keyboard mapping in Pop_OS
- Use non-standard named ssh keys with github
- Modal Labs
- Reminder about ssh-copy-id for SSH and Ansible
- Nextcloud Docker Upgrade Error
- Systemd timer for syncoid
- Adding docker daemon.json broke docker
- suda.vim for sudo access to files
- Cron for Nextcloud in Docker
- Call basicConfig to get Python log messages in iPython
- New lines in Markdown tables
- Description of my proposed vimconf 2022 talk
- Make a series of directories fast!
- Case-insensitive search in Vim
- Limit zfs list to avoid docker vomit
- You can embed gifs?!
- Don’t forget to load XMP!
- My PassMark Scores
- Suddenly SSH requires a password
- Quick setup of ZFS encrytped datasets with sane permissions
- Check Your BIOS Version On Ubuntu
- Destroying Tmux sessions with fzf
- Trick to login to web server on another box on lan
- Check your SMART status with smartctl
- Benchmark your disks with fio
- Playing with mdformat
- Paperless-NGX filtering on IDs instead of values
- Mounting exFAT USB in Linux
- Xrdp-Authentication-Required-To-Create-Managed-Color-Device
- Setup KVM to boot from local PXE server
- Self-hosted Docker registry with proxy pull through
- kvm-network-interface-via-nat-ubuntu-20
- cheat on your man
- Add colored indicators to your dataframes html representation
- Samba on Ubuntu 22 needs “inherit permissions” set
- Filtering emails with core utils
- Reindex Nextcloud After Adding Data via CLI
- arr client config
- Add space to your LVM on Ubuntu
- Tdarr worker nodes share the cache!
- Local DNS with Pi-hole
- Configure bridge network on Ubuntu 22.04 with Netplan
- Netplan change from Focal to Jammy
- How I use Nextcloud for safe central storage
- Subset a list based on values in another list with itertools.compress
- Nextcloud permissions with ZFS and Ansible-NAS
- See ZFS snapshot disk usage
- Deleting files on remote storage from Ubuntu might not do what you think
- Plug Snapshot!
- Filepath Completion in Neovim
- Forms with FastAPI and Jinja
- Dynamic-Form-Values-With-Jinja-And-Fastapi
- Plug-Snapshot-To-Save-Your-Life
- Python-Eval
- Dataframe-To-Styled-Html
- Dataframe-To-Markdown
- Wish-List-With-Fastapi
- Git-Bisect
- Pandas-String-Contains
- Tdarr
- Unpack-Anywhere-With-Star
- Htop
- Pipx
- Fx-Json
- Jellyfin-Media-Players
- Typeddict
- Home-Server-Refactor
- And-vs-&
- File-Length
- Ipython-Prompt
- Vim-Spell-Check
- Polybar-01
- Deques
- Plotly-And-Streamlit
- Starship
- self-hosted-media
- Skimpy
- Truenas-And-Wireguard
- Pyclean
- Psutil-01
- Mu
- Wireguard
- Git-Worktrees-01
- Abstract-Base-Class
- Python-F-String-Align
- Python-Builtin-Calendar
- Dataframe-Memory-Usage
- Adblock-Coverage
- Webservers-And-Indexes
- Tree
- Traefik
- Pandas-Select-Dtypes
- Tiddly-Wiki
- Vim-Auto-Space
- Stow
- Stow-Target
- Git ammend to a commit