Thoughts on tech Archive

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.

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...

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?

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...

Fixing Firefox Launcher on Kubuntu 22

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:32:50 +0000

Problem: Firefox installed but missing from KDE/Plasma app menu - Root cause: No .desktop launcher file — Firefox only worked from terminal - Solution:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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......

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...

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...

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...

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.

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:

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...

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 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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Chili Notes

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 13:42:09 +0000

I could've sworn I had a chili list going but alas...

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...

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

💭 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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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......

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

💭 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

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..."

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...

💭 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

temporal

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 21:21:43 +0000

Temporal is a workflow orchestrator that I'm interested in

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...

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.

Quit issueing 200s for 500s

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

Stop this nonsense

💭 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...

💭 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

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

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...

Stable Diffusion QR Codes for Josh

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 06:27:28 +0000

(fjords of Finland:1.3), (steep cliffs:1.1), (crystal-clear water:1.2), (reflection of sky on water:1.1), (early morning light:1.2), (golden hour glow:1.1),...

💭 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

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...

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...

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

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:

Double check your CIDR blocks!

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

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

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....

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...

homelab-computer-vision-pipelines

Sat, 31 May 2025 08:18:55 +0000

Done in 11 seconds! Subtitle and audio files are in the outputs folder.

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:

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

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...

My MCP Configuration

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 05:29:54 +0000

https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/sqlite

I was wrecked by a weird combo of » and -e

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 08:44:59 +0000

If state matters then check it in the beginning or handle it on a failure... Let me explain

Grafana + Gotify for push notifications

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 10:12:51 +0000

It's easy to configure push notifications through Gotify from Grafana by setting up a generic Alerting Contact Point...

SMB with ZFS on Ubuntu

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:18:35 +0000

sudo apt-get install -y samba \\ then set sharesmb=on \\ chown the user \\ smbpasswd -a \\ then mount with user/password from other machine

Recovering from zpool corruption when you’re short a drive

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 21:08:56 +0000

can only mount tank RO - so can't rename - also can't detach which is what I'd want

The Importance of Nostr According to ChatGPT

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 06:38:03 +0000

This was written by ChatGPT with zero oversight from me. There are a few things that are not 100% accurate, but the main idea is there... I am hoping to...

Deployments are not StatefulSets

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 18:07:57 +0000

I was debugging some ArgoCD stuff earlier today and I love using k9s to explore my k8s resources.

docker context (and an issue to question your sanity)

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 05:59:30 +0000

docker contexts are great, would recommend putting them in your prompt though (via starship or something else)... here's why

Add a healthcheck to your FastAPI app

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 15:41:36 +0000

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

statically.io to help me out

Sat, 14 Dec 2024 13:35:31 +0000

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, and that page loads are...

D and uninterruptable sleep

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:48:10 +0000

I recently have been having significant home server issues, and that's not the point of this - today I learned what state is when looking at htop.

Stylus for custom webpage themes

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 06:07:39 +0000

the Logos web app is DISGUSTINGY bright/white - enough to actually ruin your morning...

DNS Broke After Reboot - Ubuntu 22.04

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 08:08:40 +0000

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...

OPNSense Bootstrap Recovery

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 08:40:19 +0000

enabling DHCP WAN port ()- running the bootstrap script -

docker-remote-add

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:19:00 +0000

Add from url??

Docker copy and chown

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:18:09 +0000

COPY --chown=myuser:mygroup source-file target-file

Switching from AltaCV to RenderCV for my Resume

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 05:59:46 +0000

I was using a fun LaTex-based project for managing my resume called AltaCV. I loved the customization and was familiar with Tek from school. However, I...

Interesting IPs between Jellyfin clients and server depending on tailscale and server address

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 06:24:57 +0000

When connecting from my phone to jellyfin I'm seeing some interesting patterns.

Upgrading your kernel can F you up… whoops

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 10:21:59 +0000

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/update-error-with-coral-tpu-drivers.136888/#post-608975 I lost TPU for frigate, this saved me ass

Customize K9s

Mon, 06 May 2024 11:57:07 +0000

To customize k9s use the skins from catppuccin or the ones k9s supplies

Kanboard to keep me focused on my own ideas

Sat, 20 Apr 2024 18:27:07 +0000

I've been using kanboard as a self-hosted kanban board. It's keeping me focused on Digital Harbor when I'd rather be doing something less productive.

DHCP Restart to Save Ubuntu 22.04 Server Networking

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 20:26:50 +0000

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 in...

Simple Port Forwarding OPNSense

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 10:26:34 +0000

https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=8783.0

Refresh Nextcloud Groupfolders after messing around on the filesystem

Sat, 23 Sep 2023 12:45:06 +0000

Exec in as www-data and run ./occ groupfolders:scan folder_id -v (the -v to see what it's doing)

lsof to find what’s using your filesystem

Sun, 09 Apr 2023 13:32:38 +0000

lsof | grep /tank/nas shows me what is using my nas at any time!

Changing ZFS key for child datasets of encrypted dataset after migration

Sat, 08 Apr 2023 20:12:22 +0000

➜ pihole sudo zfs load-key -L file:///path/to/.zfs.tank.key tank/encrypted/vms/arch-sandbox ➜ pihole sudo zfs change-key -o...

Convert Word Doc to PDF with Headless Libreoffice

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 06:48:38 +0000

I've been using paperless-ngx to manage all my documents, but every once in a while I'll get a file to deal with...

Stable Diffusion Notes

Sat, 28 Jan 2023 14:15:11 +0000

Stable Diffusion is an AI art generation model similar to DALLE-2. Here are some prompts for generating art with Stable Diffusion.

FFMPEG 10-bit videos to 8-bit

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 13:15:53 +0000

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -map 0 -c:v libx264 -vf format=yuv420p -c:a copy output.mp4

i3-Like keyboard mapping in Pop_OS

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 05:51:25 +0000

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...

Use non-standard named ssh keys with github

Tue, 03 Jan 2023 08:34:50 +0000

I was getting when trying to push to GH using ssh. When I tested the connection I saw that a bunch of keys in ``~/.ssh/ were being attempted

Modal Labs

Wed, 28 Dec 2022 21:01:52 +0000

Playing around with Modal Labs

Reminder about ssh-copy-id for SSH and Ansible

Wed, 28 Dec 2022 13:33:07 +0000

this makes sure I can run ansible from my desktop against VMs on my server easily if they have tailscale for the hostname - otherwise use the IP

Nextcloud Docker Upgrade Error

Wed, 28 Dec 2022 09:39:27 +0000

https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/nextcloud-docker-upgrade-error

Systemd timer for syncoid

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 11:38:27 +0000

I have a bash script called which boils down to a barebones -

Adding docker daemon.json broke docker

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 10:02:25 +0000

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...

suda.vim for sudo access to files

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 09:45:34 +0000

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 Neovim as...

Cron for Nextcloud in Docker

Tue, 13 Dec 2022 06:43:45 +0000

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 anything...

Call basicConfig to get Python log messages in iPython

Sat, 10 Dec 2022 14:04:23 +0000

I am trying to adopt instead of but ran into a confusing thing in ipython during Advent of Code... I riddled by script with (yes after setting ) but in...

New lines in Markdown tables

Fri, 25 Nov 2022 13:35:05 +0000

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 is the magic...

Description of my proposed vimconf 2022 talk

Sat, 12 Nov 2022 19:39:19 +0000

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...

Make a series of directories fast!

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 15:27:50 +0000

mkdir s{1..10} will make directories s1, s2, ... s10 in one command!

Case-insensitive search in Vim

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 06:40:21 +0000

/mysearch\c will match mysearch, MYSEARCH, mYSeArCh...

Limit zfs list to avoid docker vomit

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 06:39:18 +0000

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...

You can embed gifs?!

Sun, 09 Oct 2022 13:39:39 +0000

I learned you can embed gifs and stuch in things other than GH personal pages!

Don’t forget to load XMP!

Sun, 09 Oct 2022 07:17:43 +0000

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...

My PassMark Scores

Sat, 08 Oct 2022 18:43:29 +0000

!!! note "Babyblue v2"

Suddenly SSH requires a password

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 11:14:37 +0000

ssh -v -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa nic@hogwarts

Quick setup of ZFS encrytped datasets with sane permissions

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 19:58:01 +0000

Assuming you have a pool called ...

Check Your BIOS Version On Ubuntu

Sun, 02 Oct 2022 18:21:58 +0000

sudo dmidecode -s bios-version

Destroying Tmux sessions with fzf

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 10:27:58 +0000

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 a...

Trick to login to web server on another box on lan

Mon, 12 Sep 2022 18:48:45 +0000

TODO: change title - add --listen or --host or something as 0.0.0.0... that way it listens not on localhost or 127.0.0.1, but on all addresses!

Check your SMART status with smartctl

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 06:30:27 +0000

https://www.simplified.guide/linux/disk-health-check

Benchmark your disks with fio

Sat, 27 Aug 2022 13:43:22 +0000

I use ZFS at home in my homelab for basically all of my storage... Docker uses ZFS backend, all my VMs have their images in their own zfs datasets, and all...

Playing with mdformat

Tue, 23 Aug 2022 06:56:15 +0000

import this; print(this); print("what is taking so long black!!")

Paperless-NGX filtering on IDs instead of values

Tue, 09 Aug 2022 08:28:51 +0000

To filter for saved views from the admin console you have to use the of the tag you are using to filter on...

Mounting exFAT USB in Linux

Sun, 31 Jul 2022 07:38:43 +0000

Steps sudo fdisk -l then look for the device and partition get the Type column mount Example # dumbledore in /media NO PYTHON VENV SET ❯ sudo fdisk -l ... Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdk1 * 2048 60371951 60369904 28.8G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sdk2 60371952 60437487 65536 32M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32) dumbledore in /media NO PYTHON VENV SET ❯ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdk1 /media/ventoy-usb -o uid=1000 NTFS signature...

Xrdp-Authentication-Required-To-Create-Managed-Color-Device

Mon, 18 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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...

Setup KVM to boot from local PXE server

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 12:30:50 +0000

Assuming you have a PXE server running you only need small edits to the virt-manager config

Self-hosted Docker registry with proxy pull through

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 06:44:35 +0000

I decided that I want to self-host all my docker images for the purposes of regularly rebuilding and security scanning. The first step is to set up a...

kvm-network-interface-via-nat-ubuntu-20

Sat, 25 Jun 2022 07:20:41 +0000

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 time....

cheat on your man

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 09:35:31 +0000

can be a pain to read... and there's lots of alternatives out there and one I've just started playing with is cheat

Add colored indicators to your dataframes html representation

Sat, 04 Jun 2022 06:12:33 +0000

Mike Driscoll recently tweeted about making colored out with pandas DataFrames and I just had to try it for myself

Samba on Ubuntu 22 needs “inherit permissions” set

Tue, 31 May 2022 06:30:42 +0000

see samba config on hogwarts

Filtering emails with core utils

Mon, 30 May 2022 06:09:27 +0000

email1@me.com somebody_else@gmail.com #! /bin/bash # pick multiple emails from list and combine into comma seperated array emails=`cat .../emails | fzf -m | sed 's/^\|$/"/g'|paste -sd,` echo $emails

Reindex Nextcloud After Adding Data via CLI

Sun, 29 May 2022 15:34:33 +0000

I wrote here about setting up as the owner of any directories you want nextcloud to manage. However, I regularly struggle wtih permissions issues on my NAS...

arr client config

Sat, 28 May 2022 13:29:28 +0000

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 space to your LVM on Ubuntu

Thu, 26 May 2022 21:33:55 +0000

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?

Tdarr worker nodes share the cache!

Wed, 25 May 2022 06:36:59 +0000

When working with tdarr remote nodes, they need to have access not only to the same libraries but also the same transcode cache as the server otherwise the...

Local DNS with Pi-hole

Mon, 23 May 2022 09:40:59 +0000

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 "kicked the habit"...

Configure bridge network on Ubuntu 22.04 with Netplan

Sun, 22 May 2022 14:55:28 +0000

See 02-....yaml in ansible-nas

Netplan change from Focal to Jammy

Sun, 22 May 2022 13:23:17 +0000

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...

How I use Nextcloud for safe central storage

Thu, 19 May 2022 21:17:42 +0000

Setup admin 2. External Storage extension 3. Add my nas zfs dataset 4. chown -R www-data:www-data on anything nextcloud uploads to.

Subset a list based on values in another list with itertools.compress

Thu, 19 May 2022 14:22:58 +0000

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...

Nextcloud permissions with ZFS and Ansible-NAS

Thu, 19 May 2022 13:55:20 +0000

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...

See ZFS snapshot disk usage

Thu, 19 May 2022 06:05:23 +0000

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...

Deleting files on remote storage from Ubuntu might not do what you think

Thu, 19 May 2022 05:51:50 +0000

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...

Plug Snapshot!

Tue, 17 May 2022 15:45:49 +0000

:PlugSnapshot, :w ~/dotfiles/nvim/snapshot.vim... keep your config safe with git!

Filepath Completion in Neovim

Tue, 17 May 2022 14:03:27 +0000

I've had in my plugins for ever but didn't notice until recently that I wasn't getting any filepath completion in vim!

Forms with FastAPI and Jinja

Sun, 15 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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-Form-Values-With-Jinja-And-Fastapi

Sun, 15 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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...

Plug-Snapshot-To-Save-Your-Life

Fri, 13 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

If you use vim-plug for managing your vim plugins, do yourself a favor and snapshot your plugins before upgrading!

Python-Eval

Thu, 12 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

TODO title = "my Title" eval('"my" in title') >>> True print("hello, world"); print("formatting")

Dataframe-To-Styled-Html

Sat, 07 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I wrote up a little on exporting DataFrames to markdown and html here

Dataframe-To-Markdown

Sat, 07 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

s are pretty sweet data structures in Python.

Wish-List-With-Fastapi

Fri, 06 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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....

Git-Bisect

Tue, 03 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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...

Pandas-String-Contains

Mon, 02 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

accepts regular expressions and this is turned on by __!

Unpack-Anywhere-With-Star

Sun, 24 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Unpacking iterables in python with is a pretty handy trick for writing code that is just a tiny bit more pythonic than not.

Htop

Sun, 24 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

is a common command line tool for seeing interactive output of your system resource utilization, running processes, etc.

Pipx

Fri, 22 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

is a tool I've been using to solve a few problems of mine...

Fx-Json

Tue, 19 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

fx is an interactaive JSON viewer for the terminal.

Jellyfin-Media-Players

Sun, 17 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I use Jellyfin at home for serving up most of our media - movies and shows etc.

Typeddict

Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Type hinting has helped me write code almost as much, if not more, than unit testing.

Home-Server-Refactor

Sun, 10 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

My current homelab setup is not great but it works...

And-vs-&

Wed, 06 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I often struggle to remember the correct way to do type comparisons when working in pandas.

File-Length

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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...

Ipython-Prompt

Sat, 02 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I have a post on starship where I have some notes on how I use starship to make my zsh experience great with a sweet terminal prompt.

Vim-Spell-Check

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Polybar-01

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

polybar is an awesome and super customizable status bar for your desktop environment.

Deques

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I am working on a project to create a small system monitoring dashboard using the python library.

Plotly-And-Streamlit

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I use 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, without the fallbacks of...

Starship

Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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 to edit a...

self-hosted-media

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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...

Skimpy

Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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 projects every...

Truenas-And-Wireguard

Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

One of the most common use cases for self-hosting anything is a file share system. I have been a fan of TrueNAS for a while. I currently use TrueNAS Core at...

Pyclean

Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I like to keep my workspace clean and one thing that I don't personally love looking at is the directory that pops up after running some code. The files that...

Psutil-01

Wed, 16 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Mike Driscoll has been posting some awesome posts about lately. I'm interested in making my own system monitoring dashboard now using this library. I don't...

Mu

Tue, 15 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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...

Wireguard

Sat, 12 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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 setup...

Git-Worktrees-01

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Hopefully if you write code you are using git, if not go learn the basics of , , , and / like... right now.

Abstract-Base-Class

Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I don't do a lot of OOP currently, but I have been on a few heavy OOP projects and this and from would've been super nice to know about!

Python-F-String-Align

Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I am personally trying to use instead of in all of my code, however I learned from [@Python-Hub] that you can align printouts using with -strings!.

Python-Builtin-Calendar

Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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 recently...

Dataframe-Memory-Usage

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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...

Adblock-Coverage

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I run pi-hole at home for ad blocking and some internal DNS/DHCP handling.

Webservers-And-Indexes

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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 I...

Tree

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I wanted a quick way to generate an for a directory of html files that grows by 1 or 2 files a week. I don't know any html (the files are exports from my...

Traefik

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

If you don't know about traefik and you need a reverse-proxy then you might want to check it out. I used to use nginx for my reverse proxy but the config was...

Pandas-Select-Dtypes

Sat, 05 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

On my team we often have to change data types of columns in a for a variety of reasons. The main one is it tends to be an artifact of EDA whereby a file is...

Tiddly-Wiki

Sat, 05 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Tiddly Wiki is a great note taking utility for organizing non-linear notes. I used it to replace my OneNote workflow and my only complaint is I don't have an...

Vim-Auto-Space

Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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...

Stow

Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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,...

Stow-Target

Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Check out stow for a brief introduction to

Git ammend to a commit

Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

After carefully staging only lines related to a specific change and comitting I suddenly realized I missed one... darn, what do I do?