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The Faulted Disk: harbor Replacement Writeup

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:30:00 +0000

The sequel to panicking-led-to-losing-my-desktop — this time the monitoring actually caught the disk dying, and nothing was lost.

FWBG - Genesis - 4.3

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:55:25 +0000

beware the growth of sin... harboring it leads to worse consequences for us and others. Cain's initial sin is left ambiguous but his response to his sin...

FWBG - Genesis - 4.2

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 06:35:28 +0000

Marvel at God's patience. Cain could've heeded the Lord's warnings, it would've been right.

Men’s Group - Week 36

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000

!!! quote "Psalm 119:9, 11"

Men’s Group - Week 35

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000

!!! quote "Hebrews 2:18"

Men’s Group - Week 34

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000

!!! quote "Philippians 4:19"

FWBG - Genesis - 4.1

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:31:23 +0000

The Fall is worthy of grieving. The story in the Bible explains the state of humanity, and I think we can grieve humanity's state just via observation today....

Silliness and Wrecklessness

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:39:57 +0000

I talked with my oldest daughter about silliness and wrecklessness today. She and her sister were playing too rough at bedtime and the younger slapped the...

2026-06-01 Notes

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:51:47 +0000

yesterday: 2026-05-27-notes

FWBG - Genesis - 3.3

Sun, 31 May 2026 07:12:49 +0000

The consequences of the fall were immediate and great:

God’s Zeal for Justice Amont Men Displayed in the Divine Counsel

Sun, 31 May 2026 07:12:40 +0000

link to sermon

FWBG - Genesis - 3.2

Wed, 27 May 2026 07:02:50 +0000

Eve was tempted by sin by litening to the great deceiver. But it wasn't just that she ** the serpent, she participated in the conversation, she entertained...

2026-05-27 Notes

Wed, 27 May 2026 07:00:17 +0000

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FWBG - Genesis - 1.2

Sun, 24 May 2026 07:05:23 +0000

"Let there be..." God's Word is the agency of creation

It Will Be Hard To Do More

Fri, 22 May 2026 06:23:20 +0000

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...

2026-05-22 Notes

Fri, 22 May 2026 06:22:57 +0000

yesterday: 2026-05-13-notes

FWBG - Genesis - 1.1

Sun, 17 May 2026 07:26:23 +0000

The stars are the work of God's fingers:

Panicking Led to Losing My Desktop

Wed, 13 May 2026 08:24:00 +0000

I thought I had backups handled... can you imagine how the rest of this post is going to go with that intro?

Reflection - Psalm 30:5

Wed, 13 May 2026 08:11:22 +0000

!!! note "Psalm 30:5"

Blog and LLM Knowledge Base

Wed, 13 May 2026 06:23:42 +0000

Thinking about this tweet from Andrej Karpathy about LLM knowledge bases. I maintain a blog like this one at work, which is fairly well structured markdown...

Reflection - John 14:21

Wed, 13 May 2026 06:22:40 +0000

!!! note "John 14:21"

2026-05-13 Notes

Wed, 13 May 2026 05:58:54 +0000

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Tue, 12 May 2026 06:10:54 +0000

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The Relief of Earning

Fri, 08 May 2026 05:43:39 +0000

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...

2026-05-08 Notes

Fri, 08 May 2026 05:31:46 +0000

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2026-05-04 Notes

Mon, 04 May 2026 07:48:48 +0000

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Reflection - John 16:33

Sun, 03 May 2026 07:43:54 +0000

related: advent-john-16-33

reflection - Jeremiah 17:17

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:12:36 +0000

!!! note "Jeremiah 17:17"

2026-04-30 Notes

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:32:15 +0000

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2026-04-27 Notes

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:25:43 +0000

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Sun, 26 Apr 2026 07:09:22 +0000

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Logos Webapp Dark Theme

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 07:08:15 +0000

stylus-for-custom-webpage-themes

KDE Shortcuts for Desktop and Window Navigation

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:44:48 +0000

This isn't my entire /home/nic/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc, just the sections that I customized as I'm setting up my desktop from the great...

2026-04-25 Notes

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:36:16 +0000

yesterday: 2026-04-22-notes

Aurora and KDE Window Managment with KZones

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 06:51:20 +0000

I have used a variety of window managers on a variety of distros and OS's over the last several years and because my hardware usage feels regularly in flux I...

2026-04-22 Notes

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:43:40 +0000

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2026-04-18 Notes

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:00:38 +0000

yesterday: 2026-04-05-notes

Data Loading is a Huge Deal

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:40:14 +0000

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...

2026-04-05 Notes

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:38:05 +0000

yesterday: 2026-04-03-notes

Easter 2026

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:24:02 +0000

What does it mean that "He is risen"? What does it mean to me? for me? for the world? I think the question matters to everyone, Jesus did and said a lot of...

Agents can miss obvious things too

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:39:51 +0000

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...

2026-04-03 Notes

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:40:17 +0000

yesterday: 2026-04-01-notes

Pulled Pork Notes

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:56:12 +0000

Threw 2 shoulders in the Traegar this morning. This time I didn't put much thought into the seasonings, we'll see how they turn out.

2026-04-01 Notes

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:30:40 +0000

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2026-03-31 Notes

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:31:13 +0000

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Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:35:02 +0000

yesterday: 2026-03-22-notes

Clankers

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:15:10 +0000

An appropriately derogatory reference to AI agents

The Irony of 10x

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:00:50 +0000

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...

Reflection - Luke 22:48

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:13:55 +0000

Spurgeon's ** today I almost skipped, not that I'm diligent to sit down every day anyways, but because I'm struggling with stress and work and I was hoping...

Remote Terraform State Requires Working Traefik… DUH!

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:12:25 +0000

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...

To Live In A World Without AI

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:50:38 +0000

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...

2026-03-22 Notes

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 07:09:33 +0000

yesterday: 2026-03-07-notes

paynepride dot com outage on vacation

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:21:31 +0000

The day after I leave for vacation I start getting SSL errors on every homelab service I host for myself and others. The culprit was my Cloudflare API token...

2026-03-07 Notes

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:06:36 +0000

yesterday: 2026-03-03-notes

For My Own Sake I Do It

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:11:46 +0000

!!! note "Isaiah 48:9-11"

2026-03-03 Notes

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:25:57 +0000

yesterday: 2026-02-26-notes

My Thoughts on Beads

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:00:47 +0000

Steve Yegge is a pretty well-known individual in the tech field, having been around for a long time at some of the larger companies. He's making quite a...

2026-02-26 Notes

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:07:08 +0000

yesterday: 2026-02-25-notes

The Wrath to Come pt 2

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:06:53 +0000

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 a **. The...

The Wrath to Come

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 06:09:15 +0000

!!! note "Matthew 3:7"

clocks

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 05:53:01 +0000

One of the best things I've vibe-coded

2026-02-25 Notes

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 05:29:14 +0000

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2026-02-24 Notes

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:29:35 +0000

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Reflection - Hebrews 13:5

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 05:19:39 +0000

!!! note "Hebrews 13:5"

2026-02-23 Notes

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 05:08:59 +0000

yesterday: 2026-02-20-notes

Cat Stock at 760

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:09:08 +0000

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...

Reflection - 2 Corinthians 7:6

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:54:11 +0000

!!! note "2 Corinthians 7:6"

2026-02-20 Notes

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:43:59 +0000

yesterday: 2026-02-18-notes

Trials Reveal Faith (short)

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:19:07 +0000

Spurgeon's "Morning and Evening" today ended with a poem:

2026-02-18 Notes

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 05:43:57 +0000

yesterday: 2026-02-17-notes

Forge Ahead

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:14:15 +0000

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 leaving......

2026-02-17 Notes

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 04:52:51 +0000

yesterday: 2026-02-16-notes

Reflection - Contentment and Work

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:42:13 +0000

!!! note "Philippians 4:11"

2026-02-16 Notes

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:40:52 +0000

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Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:12:31 +0000

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Consequences, Discipline, and Punishment

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 04:31:49 +0000

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 have...

2026-02-13 Notes

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 04:27:04 +0000

yesterday: 2026-02-12-notes

The Ridiculous Blessing of the Lord

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 04:25:38 +0000

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 word...

2026-02-12 Notes

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 04:19:24 +0000

yesterday: 2026-02-10-notes

2026-02-10 Notes

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:00:16 +0000

yesterday: 2026-02-07-notes

docker

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:50:30 +0000

docker - container runtime

helm

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:50:03 +0000

helm - package manager for k8s

kubectl

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:49:52 +0000

kubectl - canonically pronouned kube-control

kind

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:49:21 +0000

kind - kubernetes in docker

Kubernetes External Secrets Operator

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:48:34 +0000

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,...

Cat Autonomy 2.0

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 06:07:12 +0000

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...

Reflection - Arise and Depart

Sat, 07 Feb 2026 04:37:12 +0000

Spurgeon's ** reflection for this morning is Micah 2:10 "Arise, and depart".

2026-02-07 Notes

Sat, 07 Feb 2026 04:29:07 +0000

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2026-02-06 Notes

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:23:20 +0000

yesterday: 2026-02-05-notes

AI

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:58:00 +0000

How do I use AI for my site?

Nexus

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:31:53 +0000

Nexus is a task tracker and second-brain for collaborating with AI agents on software development. It keeps project boards, task details, subtasks, daily...

2026-02-05 Notes

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:31:31 +0000

yesterday: 2026-02-03-notes

Learning How To Agent

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:50:33 +0000

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, which is like LSP on seteroids, or I...

2026-02-03 Notes

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:47:11 +0000

yesterday: 2026-01-31-notes

Revel in imparted righteousness

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 05:45:42 +0000

Spurgeon's Morning and Evening today is from Jeremiah 23:6.

2026-01-31 Notes

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 05:27:34 +0000

yesterday: 2026-01-23-notes

New Job - Caterpillar Autonomy

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:24:54 +0000

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-grade...

2026-01-23 Notes

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 05:47:03 +0000

yesterday: 2026-01-01-notes

I’m back from the dead

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 05:38:29 +0000

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've...

2026-01-01 Notes

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 05:53:10 +0000

yesterday: 2025-12-31-notes

Reflection - John 7:37

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:05:36 +0000

!!! note "John 7:37"

2025-12-31 Notes

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 04:34:20 +0000

yesterday: 2025-12-30-notes

Increase inotify limit in your CI workers

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 06:11:49 +0000

Today I tripped over a CI failure that I had to think about for a while.

2025-12-30 Notes

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 05:33:02 +0000

yesterday: 2025-12-27-notes

The Hidden Things Belong To Yahweh

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 05:47:22 +0000

!!! note "Deuteronomy 29:29"

Prettier Docker ‘ps’ Command

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 05:33:05 +0000

The command is very useful, but I hate reading the output. Turns out, you can make it prettier:

Reflection - Galatians 2:19-20

Sun, 28 Dec 2025 06:18:57 +0000

!!! note "Galatians 2:19-20"

2025-12-27 Notes

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 06:43:57 +0000

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Fri, 26 Dec 2025 09:52:38 +0000

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Advent - 1 John 4:17

Thu, 25 Dec 2025 05:36:08 +0000

!!! note "1 John 4:17"

2025-12-24 Notes

Wed, 24 Dec 2025 06:08:16 +0000

yesterday: 2025-12-23-notes

Advent - Luke 6:35

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 05:17:05 +0000

!!! note "Luke 6:35"

2025-12-23 Notes

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 05:15:21 +0000

yesterday: 2025-12-20-notes

Advent - Mark 12:29-30

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 05:41:55 +0000

!!! note "Mark 12:29-30"

Advent - Romans 15:13

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 05:36:26 +0000

!!! note "Romans 15:13"

2025-12-20 Notes

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 05:34:47 +0000

yesterday: 2025-12-19-notes

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Fri, 19 Dec 2025 08:03:54 +0000

yesterday: 2025-12-18-notes

Advent - Matthew 5:11-12

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 05:08:56 +0000

!!! note "Matthew 5:11-12"

2025-12-18 Notes

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 05:07:45 +0000

yesterday: 2025-12-15-notes

Advent - John 15:10-11

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:39:34 +0000

!!! note "John 15:10-11"

Advent - Luke 2:10-11

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 04:55:33 +0000

!!! note "Luke 2:10-11"

2025-12-15 Notes

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:43:57 +0000

yesterday: 2025-12-14-notes

Advent - Isaiah 51:3

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:40:47 +0000

!!! note "Isaiah 51:1-3"

2025-12-14 Notes

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 19:23:33 +0000

yesterday: 2025-12-12-notes

Advent - Psalm 105:43

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 09:48:03 +0000

!!! note "Psalm 105:43"

Advent - Ephesians 4:3

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 05:05:56 +0000

!!! note "Ephesians 4:1-6"

Setup A Cloudflare Tunnel With Terraform

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:06:59 +0000

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...

Advent - Ephesians 2:14-16

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:57:12 +0000

The reflection in the BP calendar for today was only verses 14-15 but they made no sense to me without some more context

2025-12-12 Notes

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:56:48 +0000

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Advent - Colossians 1:19-20

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 05:38:49 +0000

!!! note "Colossians 1:19-20"

2025-12-11 Notes

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 05:38:33 +0000

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Advent - John 16:33

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 05:03:04 +0000

!!! note "John 16:33"

Advent - Zechariah 9:9-10

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:06:22 +0000

!!! note "Zechariah 9:9-10"

2025-12-09 Notes

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:05:57 +0000

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Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:46:04 +0000

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COLUMNS Env Var For Nicer Screenshots

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:16:55 +0000

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...

UV

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:02:54 +0000

uv by Astral.sh is one of the dopest python toolchain tools to ever exist

UV Run + PEP 723 Is A Match Made In Heaven

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 04:59:10 +0000

This post will be short but hopefully be a dense few paragraphs about how using along with PEP 723 is life-changing.

Advent - Isaiah 9:6-7

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 04:39:09 +0000

!!! note "Isaiah 9:6-7"

Advent 2025 - Love

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 05:51:43 +0000

!!! note "1 John 4:7–10 (CSB)"

Advent - Isaiah 26:3

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 05:49:32 +0000

!!! note "Isaiah 26:3"

GitHub Stopped Me From Messing With The Bots

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 06:24:51 +0000

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...

Advent - Romans 8:24-25

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:37:21 +0000

!!! note "Romans 8:24-25"

2025-12-06 Notes

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:36:49 +0000

yesterday: 2025-12-05-notes

Advent - Romans 8:20-21

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:00:42 +0000

!!! note "Romans 8:20-21"

2025-12-05 Notes

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:00:11 +0000

yesterday: 2025-12-04-notes

Small Steps Towards Handling Malicious Traffic on Static Sites

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:17:24 +0000

Today I saw a random IP hitting an app server I had open via and it got me thinking that I need to take some precautions against these real world threats. So...

Advent - 1 Peter 1:3

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 04:59:06 +0000

!!! note "1 Peter 1:3"

2025-12-04 Notes

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 04:58:44 +0000

yesterday: 2025-12-03-notes

💭 COLUMNS env var

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 11:40:58 +0000

Awesome awesome TIL with COLUMNS for some nicer terminal printouts for READMEs and such

Advent - Isaiah 40:31

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 05:01:47 +0000

!!! note "Isaiah 40:31"

2025-12-03 Notes

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 05:01:04 +0000

yesterday: 2025-12-01-notes

Advent - Psalm 130:7

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 05:15:58 +0000

!!! note "Psalm 130:7"

2025-12-01 Notes

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:47:57 +0000

yesterday: 2025-11-29-notes

Advent - Psalm 39:7

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:14:45 +0000

!!! note "Psalm 39:7"

Advent - Isaiah 8:17

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:13:59 +0000

!!! note "Isaiah 8:17"

2025-11-29 Notes

Sat, 29 Nov 2025 06:00:33 +0000

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Fri, 28 Nov 2025 04:58:06 +0000

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Reflection - Ecclesiastes 9:10

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:04:07 +0000

!!! note "Ecclesiastes 9:10"

2025-11-26 Notes

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 04:55:16 +0000

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Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:21:13 +0000

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Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:15:33 +0000

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Sun, 23 Nov 2025 19:54:08 +0000

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💭 Docker | Atuin Docs

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 20:58:59 +0000

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

2025-11-21 Notes

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:51:33 +0000

yesterday: 2025-11-19-notes

Reflection - Psalm 93

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 05:59:43 +0000

Yahweh is king

2025-11-19 Notes

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 05:45:06 +0000

yesterday: 2025-11-15-notes

By God’s Grace

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:27:15 +0000

!!! note "Style"

Check SWAP in htop

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 06:52:14 +0000

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. Instead I...

Zensical

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 06:30:40 +0000

Zensical is a static site gnerator from the Material for Mk Docs team. Looks beautiful by default, great for doc sites

2025-11-15 Notes

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 06:28:42 +0000

yesterday: 2025-11-13-notes

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Thu, 13 Nov 2025 05:46:29 +0000

yesterday: 2025-11-10-notes

Speakr For Recording and Transcribing at Home

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 05:02:37 +0000

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...

RepoFlow Robot User

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 09:24:25 +0000

I'm trying to lean into repoFlow at home, and model some slightly better patterns than open borders to artifacts across all my services. As I'm getting...

2025-11-10 Notes

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 05:49:55 +0000

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Fri, 07 Nov 2025 08:33:58 +0000

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Reflection - Go Forward - Only Thing To Do

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 06:04:16 +0000

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 fault with...

2025-11-05 Notes

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 05:44:45 +0000

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Tue, 04 Nov 2025 05:32:23 +0000

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Deuteronomy 6 and the Shema

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 05:10:11 +0000

The Shema from Judaism, archived in Deuteronomy 6, is a pinnacle tradition in Hebrew Judaism, and _ in Christianity. I cannot claim to be an expert, but it's...

2025-11-03 Notes

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 05:23:32 +0000

yesterday: 2025-10-30-notes

Facism and Heresy - Words Matter

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 06:27:33 +0000

This is a short reflection/semi-open letter to a friend I've been having a > conversation with for a couple weeks

Reflection - Psalm 9:1

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 06:12:37 +0000

!!! note "Psalm 9:1"

2025-10-30 Notes

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 06:02:42 +0000

yesterday: 2025-10-28-notes

💭 You already have a git server: (Maurycy’s blog)

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:16:37 +0000

Using my server's filesystem + ssh + git-hooks for the simplest self-hosted CI pipelines ever sounds like a pretty cool

Reflection - John 15:19

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 06:36:22 +0000

!!! note "Spurgeon"

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Helkyo

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:49:16 +0000

To drag forcefully

Helkyo - What is it for God to draw man to him?

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 06:37:17 +0000

In John 6 there is a curious phrase about how the Father initiates the process of Salvation in the hearts of men.

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Reflection - Mark 4:1-20

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 06:09:43 +0000

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. BUt while I wait...

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Reflection - John 21:12

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 05:22:12 +0000

!!! note "John 21:12"

Reflection - Philippians 3:8

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 05:30:47 +0000

!!! note "Philippians 3:8"

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Affine

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 05:16:22 +0000

Mind-mapping webapp at home with native desktop App. Like Notion but with diagram support

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Testing Safari Formatting

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 13:51:15 +0000

Reflection - Psalm 119:15

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 05:59:30 +0000

!!! note "Psalm 119:15"

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Original Sin

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 06:05:37 +0000

The doctrine (**) basically answers this question:

Reflection - Jude 24

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 05:52:12 +0000

!!! note "Jude 24-25"

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Use Jellyfin Tags For Content Moderation

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 10:21:01 +0000

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...

Reflection - Numbers 11:11

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 05:07:19 +0000

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...

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Reflection - John 4:14

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 06:09:02 +0000

Today Spurgeon's "Morning and Evening" was on John 4:14

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Angel of Yahweh

Sun, 05 Oct 2025 13:57:38 +0000

The Angel of Yahweh is but isn't Yahweh, it's the second person of the Trinity, the visible Yahweh to the invisible Yahweh

Reflection - 1 Kings 19:8

Sun, 05 Oct 2025 06:59:52 +0000

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...

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Sending SMS with SMTP

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 09:38:58 +0000

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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Reflection - Psalm 84:11

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 06:34:25 +0000

Spurgeon's Morning and Evening today (actually the evening one) is for Psalm 84:11.

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Reflection - Deuteronomy 33:29

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 06:38:42 +0000

Note reflections are not theological study

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Wants

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 20:58:00 +0000

GL.inet Travel Router with Tailscale support - would be great for GWL trips

Reflection - Romans 3:26

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 05:42:24 +0000

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

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Book Review - Dula, Fig, and the Wisdom of Old Sycamore

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 07:04:19 +0000

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...

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Reflection - Galatians 5:1

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 06:04:58 +0000

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 bastardized and...

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Reflection - Galatians 5:24-25

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 05:39:12 +0000

!!! note "Galatians 5:24-25"

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erets

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 06:11:46 +0000

Hebrew word for "land", biblically can refer to:

Reflection (Short) - Erets

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 06:05:41 +0000

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. Thankfully a...

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Docker Compose Build From Git Repo

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 08:45:20 +0000

You can reference a git repo in compose's "build" argument for a service as of this PR

Reflection - They Can Come For Anyone

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 05:34:00 +0000

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...

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That Guy Can Do Anything

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:11:20 +0000

"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 every year,...

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💭 uv script management

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 11:25:33 +0000

Dang Waylon! Love these few lines... uv is great, been using it for environment and project requirements management bu

Zsh alias for uv scripts

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 06:33:13 +0000

It's apparently advantageous for uv to have a specific shebang set that doesn't add, no problem, we can have a zsh alias for it

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💭 Engineering excellence starts on edge

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 11:27:07 +0000

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

Reflection on Philippians 2:14-18

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 07:12:55 +0000

!!! note "Philippians 2:15-18"

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apprise

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:13:09 +0000

Apprise - github project that's awesome about notifications

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Pinchflat

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 20:20:58 +0000

Pinchflat is a self-hostable YouTube media downloader

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Reflection - Morning August 31 2025

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 06:46:06 +0000

“On mine arm shall they trust." —Isaiah 51:5

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Old School Runescape Runelite Plugins

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 06:11:26 +0000

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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Awesome

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 20:58:00 +0000

There's some things I find awesome online - here is a list of those things

Reflection - AI Work and ADHD

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 07:16:57 +0000

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 is to kill my love...

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💭 Docker Swarm Still Rocks

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:43:44 +0000

Apparently docker swarm is still a thing and now I have to try it

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When I Learned What An Escape Room Was

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:03:36 +0000

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 piece is...

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Thoughts On August 21 2025

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 06:14:26 +0000

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" as the saying...

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forgejo

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 06:26:00 +0000

self-hosted code forge - codeberg - fork of gittea

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💭 Codeberg Pages | Codeberg Documentation

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:35:38 +0000

Forgejo has a github pages like feature... this might be nice to use sometime as I try to lean into forgejo, but the las

💭 Use Traefik 2 with Nginx, Apache, or CaddyServer to Serve Stat…

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:28:37 +0000

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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Reflecting on Romans 7:7-13

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 06:12:13 +0000

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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Runescape Clients and Settings

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 11:12:57 +0000

!!! danger "Note to future me"

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Starting Old School Runescape Over Again

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 19:25:55 +0000

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...

💭 Setting up a Self-Hosted Forgejo Actions Runner with Docker Co…

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 11:30:54 +0000

As I explore forgjeo this post has a title that sounds very promising! I would like everything to be a docker compose st

Pair AceGamer Wireless PS4 Controller With PC

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 06:51:12 +0000

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...

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Proxy Pull Docker Images From Self-Hosted Container Registry Through Self-Hosted Repoflow

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 06:59:02 +0000

This post is a short write-up of an issue I had while exploring Reploflow - a super solid artifactory-esq replacement for the homelab (and enterprise!). I've...

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A Simple Lua Plugin To Find My Drafts

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 20:56:33 +0000

I used windsurf to write daily-notes-neovim-plugin for navigating my daily notes in neovim.

AudioMass

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 14:17:43 +0000

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 on the...

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Using Litestream to Restore My Database for Easy Development

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 15:14:45 +0000

see using-litestream-to-backup-quadtasks-sqlite-db for how I setup litestream replication for quadtask

Migrate Github Issues to Kanboard

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 14:43:27 +0000

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...

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Using Litestream to Backup QuadTask’s SQLite DB

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 19:34:19 +0000

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 the data...

💭 Static egress IPs for machines - Fresh Produce - Fly.io

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 11:50:12 +0000

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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Litestream

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:48:01 +0000

Litestream is a simple way to replicate SQLite databases

Setup Remote MinIO S3 Backend Target for Litestream

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:39:16 +0000

I am starting to think through some patterns for replicating sqlite databases, exploring them, standardizing on schemas/models I use across projects, etc......

GrapheneOS

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:32:55 +0000

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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💭 caronc/apprise-api: A lightweight REST framework that wraps th…

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 01:08:10 +0000

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

💭 The Remarkable Incompetence At The Heart Of Tech

Sun, 03 Aug 2025 11:39:14 +0000

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

inode

Sun, 03 Aug 2025 07:16:02 +0000

Index Nodes (inode) is a data structure that stores information about a file or directory, such as its size, permissions, ownership, and disk block...

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Docker Volume Mounts Link to an Inode

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 13:01:58 +0000

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...

💭 Kinopio

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:34:41 +0000

kinopio is a pretty sweet map-mapping type of application. It's localfirst, you can run it for free with state kept loca

Knowledge and Faith

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 05:58:52 +0000

What does it mean to be "faithful"? I wrestle with this question in various contexts pretty regularly - mostly because God has been so ridiculously stupid...

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What Is A Right?

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 06:31:11 +0000

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 results of a...

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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 around me and...

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💭 My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:56:38 +0000

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

God Provides When He Takes Away

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 05:52:37 +0000

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 when...

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Olivet Men’s Group August 2025

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 06:35:57 +0000

1 John 3: 7-10 for men's group in August 2025

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💭 It’s rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:46:43 +0000

Great read on LLM output, and the slop that's already been dumped into the internet. I've become a pretty heavy AI user

You suck at git - but it’s honestly fine

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 05:20:07 +0000

I just started listening to localfirst.fm podcast podcast and would recommend it after 2 episodes. In the first episode, the hosts discuss where the term...

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💭 Anthropic Is Bleeding Out

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 10:44:56 +0000

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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💭 Thread by @windsurf_ai on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 10:54:50 +0000

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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Daily Notes Neovim Plugin

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 21:11:32 +0000

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 more...

💭 AI INTERVIEWS ARE HERE!! SO I TROLLED ONE TO SHOW YOU… - You…

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:41:04 +0000

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

Add yourself to www-data to view your Nextcloud data on the filesystem

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 07:38:09 +0000

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 to see the...

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gotify cli for notifying me of nextcloud uploads

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:33:25 +0000

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 the...

Using restic to backup my home directory

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:12:26 +0000

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

Shotput

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 06:18:00 +0000

This is from i-built-a-simple-app-for-adding-images-to-my-blog

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Python editable installs and nested scripts

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 08:40:32 +0000

I have been working towards a standard structure for all my python projects - and I mean much more than just or something along those lines. But one of the...

typ.ing personal best

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 08:12:37 +0000

I can't even remember if I've hit 130 WPM in a typing challenge before, let alone at 98%+ accuracy!

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💭 Agile Was Never Your Problem Pt 1/2 | The Cynical Developer

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 18:13:08 +0000

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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Waupaca Boatride Volleyball Tournament

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 20:17:30 +0000

website

💭 OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf’s CEO is going to…

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 10:48:05 +0000

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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Ghost

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:23:35 +0000

Ghost is my primary application server. These are the specs...

The Homelab

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:22:51 +0000

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.

💭 Docker Brings Compose to the AI Agent Era | Docker

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 11:49:41 +0000

Seems like docker is leaning harder into compose - which is great for me as a heavy compose user. I had heard about some

💭 Tyblog | systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 11:00:54 +0000

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

Lua type hinting - undefined global

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 06:08:39 +0000

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...

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Pilgrims Creek

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 08:00:25 +0000

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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💭 restic · Backups done right!

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 11:53:41 +0000

Welp, I need to be backing up my desktop home directory, specifically a directory of docker volume data... I thought dup

💭 Add confirmation for hard reset by stefanhaller · Pull Request…

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 11:25:30 +0000

I float between lazygit and gitui still for my terminal-based git flow and I want to lean into lazygit more fully. One i

2025-07-08 Notes

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 09:03:01 +0000

Today I consolidated homelab-social-media-pipelines into homelab-temporal, which is the app repo.

💭 HomeBox

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 10:48:12 +0000

I stumbled onto homebox this morning scrolling a newsletter and it looks like something I've been lightly thinking about

💭 postmarketOS // v24.06: The One With Over 250 Devices

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 11:31:19 +0000

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

💭 Self-Hosting A Cluster On Old Phones | Hackaday

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 11:30:17 +0000

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

Testing a Postiz Change Locally (IT WORKS!)

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 08:42:44 +0000

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-thoughts to...

July 4 - Freedom From Protection

Fri, 04 Jul 2025 19:41:30 +0000

Independence Day has become more important to me as I've gained some perspective on the world, and learned that in the US of A we have it pretty dang good......

💭 Build backend | uv

Fri, 04 Jul 2025 11:43:30 +0000

uv build backend ready for production! Dang... I need to visit my hatch builds, I love hatch's simplicity specifically w

Liquids vs Liquid and How My Wife Forgot I was Autistic

Fri, 04 Jul 2025 06:32:57 +0000

My wife said a somewhat rhetorical question yesterday "is it liquid or liquids when..." and I frankly don't remember the exact ending. I thought it was a...

MCPHub with Windsurf

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 08:42:31 +0000

I came across mcphub today and got the motivation to try it out... I use AI tools like Windsurf and Roo across multiple devices and it'd be awesome to have a...

Nostr

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:22:03 +0000

???+ note "How to start..."

💭 TimoStahl/kanboard_plugin_bigboard: A Kanboard that can displa…

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 11:31:34 +0000

I use kanboard to keep myself focused at home - it's great because it's simple enough but does have complex features (th

💭 { TechDufus } | Blog

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 11:09:01 +0000

Just came across TechDufus today... love his blog style... it's beautiful... definitely not gonna potentially rip this o

💭 { TechDufus } | Building a Talos Kubernetes Homelab with Terra…

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 11:00:52 +0000

Caught this blog post from Waylon - I added this guy to my RSS feed to star this post. I have tried talos with terraform

💭 Also done with second braining

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:57:57 +0000

Oddly enough I am just now really getting into the second brain idea... a zettlekasten has been taking shape in my life

Nostr hex key

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 08:43:32 +0000

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)

Github Star Sorter

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 08:01:31 +0000

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...

gwl-margarita-tracker

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 21:33:28 +0000

Track discount on margarita refills over the lifetime of this mug

Great Wolf Lodge

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 21:31:13 +0000

walkie-talkies!

💭 Switching pip to uv in a Dockerized Flask / Django App — Nick …

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 11:18:16 +0000

It's nice to see uv gaining popularity in so many places - and replacing vanilla pip with uv in containerized environmen

💭 Containers are available in public beta for simple, global, an…

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 11:20:11 +0000

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

💭 Genesis 1 and Its ANE Polemic, Part 2 - Dr. Michael Heiser

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:29:10 +0000

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

💭 Notes – 06:11 Sun 22 Jun 2025 – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:04:29 +0000

I see that most of the tech world, at least in public, leans left... which is fine. I think politically I'd have leaned

Traefik and gRPC for Temporal at home

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 20:55:42 +0000

Someday I will potentially write up some stuff about temporal but for now it's a workflow orchestrator that I'm interested in and I wanted to PoC it in my...

💭 Copilot Instructions

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 11:14:02 +0000

I have tried a few different cursorrules/windsurfrules with windsurf, but I didn't even know you could give copilot cust

Nextcloud PHP Opache Memory Consumption

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:46:20 +0000

Today I was combing through Nextcloud, just taking a gander at the apps, updates, etc.

💭 You asked, we built it: Firefox tab groups are here

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 13:18:49 +0000

I stumbled into tab groups today when rearranging my tabs in firefox while bouncing between a few different things this

Quit issueing 200s for 500s

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 06:55:21 +0000

Stop this nonsense

💭 Control Your n8n Instance Remotely with Telegram Bot Commands …

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:38:53 +0000

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

💭 matduggan.com/what-would-a-kubernetes-2-0-look-like/

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 11:53:33 +0000

This article was longer than I had time to really consume but a heading caught my eye that I wanted to agree with - the

Thinking In Diagrams

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 06:55:31 +0000

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 problems with...

What Are The Rewards In Heaven?

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 06:23:05 +0000

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 this teaching...

💭 pypeaday/whose-turn-is-it: Simple uv webapp to determine order…

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 01:23:26 +0000

We pray together as a family every night, but every single flipping night my daughter's fight about the order we go in..

💭 Microsoft planning thousands of job cuts aimed at salespeople,…

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 10:51:59 +0000

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

💭 microsandbox/microsandbox: Self-Hosted Plaform for Secure Exec…

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 10:46:03 +0000

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

Homelab Youtube Podcasts to AudioBookShelf Pipeline

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 13:53:12 +0000

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 use case

💭 neverjust

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 10:33:49 +0000

Your "just" comes from seeing only the surface of the problem. Like an iceberg, what's visible is just a fraction This

Reflecting on BP Article on James - Faith and Works

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 06:00:15 +0000

This started as one of my-thoughts and got long enough to warrant putting right in the blog

💭 A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:56:10 +0000

I am interested in the topic of "digital gardening", and I didn't realize how long the term has been around. As a relati

source_up for nested .envrc

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 09:52:17 +0000

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...

💭 Cross Account AWS Security Group ID Reference

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 20:56:57 +0000

I needed to update some ingress rules across several AWS accounts and ran into an issue when I had to reference a securi

💭 Failed to load state: unsupported checkable object kind var - …

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 20:27:07 +0000

I have spacelift stacks managed with open tofu and stacks managed with terraform... Due to this very issue I think, I ra

💭 Snowflake Status - Certificate Authority Update for AWS Regions

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:37:12 +0000

A recent Snowflake issue borked some old pipelines - thankfully it appears to be a simple fix. Just goes to show you tha

💭 Visualizing My Blog’s Internal Links - Jim Nielsen’s Blog

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:26:29 +0000

Someday I will build a thing to see the relationship in my posts and notes. Right now I'm working on writing consistentl

💭 Stable Diffusion QR Code 101

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:24:46 +0000

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

Father’s Day 2025

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 09:02:09 +0000

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 view of,...

U-Blue Aurora Upgrade Broke HWA Docker

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 08:42:09 +0000

I use Universal Blue's Aurora distribution on my daily driver desktop, and I rebooted today which led what I imagine is a kernel update. This broke all of my...

Test Styles

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 16:03:50 +0000

Content fooo bar

Homelab Pinchflat

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 08:51:21 +0000

I've written about self-hosted-media before and addressed some thoughts with YouTube.

If You Want Something Make It So - Song Style

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 08:44:14 +0000

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"... It's...

About Me

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 20:58:00 +0000

Hey, I'm Nic. Welcome to my little corner of the internet.

Now

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 20:58:00 +0000

Started on 2025-07-16-notes using this page for my "don't lose sight of the projects you're touching"

Feeds

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 20:58:00 +0000

I write about things I find interesting, here's a list of my feeds:

Contact

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 20:58:00 +0000

You can find more places to find me at my digital harbor

About

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 20:58:00 +0000

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 for more info. I...

QuadTask

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 20:58:00 +0000

Eisenhower Matrix based task manager

Dad, Can I Wear This?

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 20:58:00 +0000

Repo

💭 Normal boyhood is ADHD

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 10:58:01 +0000

I may want to write a longer post about this or just capture some quick thoughts but I appreciate DHH's take here.... AD

ZSA typing challenge issue

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 08:07:41 +0000

I love zsa and have been using a moonlander for a few years now.

Double Check Your DNS Records

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 06:53:50 +0000

I host my blog on cloudflare and manage my infra with terraform. I got a 522 when I went to recently and I wondered why since worked fine...

💭 “We would be less confidential than Google” – Proton threatens…

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 02:19:29 +0000

I've been a proton user for several years now, and pay a decently hefty subscription fee for some of their services that

💭 Exploiting Copilot AI for SharePoint | Pen Test Partners

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 02:17:17 +0000

In hindsight this vulnerability isn't even that clever, hopefully the share holders of the companies that rushed to thro

💭 slash pages

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:41:43 +0000

Waylon's mentioned slash pages before, but as I work on building my blog again and writing more regularly thanks to "tho

💭 The Meaning of “Mammon” in the Bible | Matthew 6:24

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:03:13 +0000

I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the future, planning and saving, making sure to the best of my ability and

💭 N.T. Wright on The Unseen Realm & Heiser - YouTube

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:59:29 +0000

I don't write enough short thoughts on theology stuff, I'm usually trying to have some longer thought to unpack or to su

💭 qwen3

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 02:23:23 +0000

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

💭 daily challenge leaderboard | typ.ing

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 13:45:07 +0000

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

💭 News - Apps - App Store - Nextcloud

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 11:37:39 +0000

I just started using FreshRSS to get familiar with subscribing to RSS feeds and leaning into that as opposed to social m

💭 ELEMENT.FM - unlimited podcast hosting

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 11:30:38 +0000

I heard about element.fm as a possible self-hosted podcast solution. They also have a service that looks pretty nice and

Thoughts

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 11:30:21 +0000

My thoughts are found at my thoughts feed

💭 Keynote Speaker - Cory Doctorow - YouTube

Sun, 08 Jun 2025 17:43:16 +0000

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

Example For Andrew

Sun, 08 Jun 2025 14:48:53 +0000

I built a simple app for adding images to my blog

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 13:30:28 +0000

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:

💭 Linux Explained: What is The Linux Kernel? - YouTube

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 11:28:18 +0000

I'm getting sucked into the Linux is a kernel not an operating system crowd because tonight I realized I couldn't descri

💭 What are these 100.x.y.z addresses? · Tailscale Docs

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 11:27:43 +0000

I have had serious issues with a whitelist I set in my traefik config and then reaching some services on my tailnet... t

Double check your CIDR blocks!

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 07:27:31 +0000

Copy paste - don't rely on typing correctly...

I love an expert in their craft

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:38:13 +0000

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 super cold... The...

homelab-journey-part-1

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 08:19:57 +0000

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....

Autism ADHD and the Doshas

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:28:42 +0000

I was recently diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder Level 1 and ADHD, the inattentive type. I suppose, AuDHD for short. There are many reasons why I now...

Backups interrupted by full disk usage

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 21:08:50 +0000

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...

Windows Update Broke Wifi

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 14:30:43 +0000

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 AX5400...

Queso Notes

Sat, 31 May 2025 19:14:30 +0000

It occured to me that this is my blog... I can write about whatever the heck I want!

Backups are dope

Tue, 27 May 2025 19:42:27 +0000

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...

Aurora U-Blue ZRAM Config

Tue, 27 May 2025 13:51:27 +0000

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:

I Hate Corporate America

Tue, 27 May 2025 08:11:52 +0000

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 a lot...

Pandas.DataFrame info always answers and is sometimes right

Mon, 26 May 2025 09:08:08 +0000

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...

💭 SearXNG | Open WebUI

Sun, 25 May 2025 11:21:40 +0000

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

SearXNG

Sun, 25 May 2025 08:33:10 +0000

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...

A New Perspective on Being God’s Child

Sun, 18 May 2025 07:15:06 +0000

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 predestination, and then...

💭 Installing Tailscale on JetKVM | Medium

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:07:51 +0000