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 the ‘ol I lost connecti…
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How I use Nextcloud for safe central storage
Setup admin External Storage extension Add my nas zfs dataset chown -R www-data:www-data on anything nextcloud uploads to.
Subset a list based on values in another list with itertools.compress
I have list [True, False, False, True] and another list [1, 2, 3, 4] and a use case where I want to filter list 2 based on list 1 to remove values that line up with the element Fal…
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 on the host system… so if that makes sense to you th…
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 ZFS snapshots and due to…
Deleting files on remote storage from Ubuntu might not do what you think
From my daily driver Ubuntu machine I often open nautilus, dolphin, etc. and delete a file here or there on my NAS… turns out Ubuntu sends thse file to ON THE NAS so I’m effectivel…
Plug Snapshot!
:PlugSnapshot,:w ~/dotfiles/nvim/snapshot.vim… keep your config safe with git!
Filepath Completion in Neovim
I’ve had in my plugins for ever but didn’t notice until recently that I wasn’t getting any filepath completion in vim! Fuller setup instructions below the TLDR TL;DR Turns out I ne…
Forms with FastAPI and Jinja
I just started using FastAPI for a home project and needed to pass back a dynamic number of values from a form rendered with jinja… Dynamic Values The jinja templating for renderin…
Dynamic-Form-Values-With-Jinja-And-Fastapi
I’m currently working on a self-hostable wish list app using FastAPI so we can finally drop Amazon forever. (The lists funcionality has been super handy for sharing holiday gift id…
- PHP2Shell: finding and patching every PHP runtime in the homelab
- 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