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 hardware. I’ll hopefu…
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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 in and I notice it takes a long time to…
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 pretty standard AX5…
homelab-computer-vision-pipelines
Done in 11 seconds! Subtitle and audio files are in the outputs folder. I wanted to talk through an idea I have for some computer vision pipelines at home. I heard of a tool called…
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 the same host, so a quick…
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 defaults: in And so I just made…
Pandas.DataFrame info always answers and is sometimes right
TIL Today I learned that the of a will always give you an answer, but it is wildly difficult to know how accurate it is, because it depends on the underlying data types. If everyth…
SearXNG
I heard about SearXNG on a couple podcasts and saw it trending on GitHub several times before I finally decided to stand it up. I used it transparently when trying out khoj, a self…
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
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 encrypted data… Now this would b…
- 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