I rebuilt most of it from scratch
I have kubernetes, now what?
Not everything lives in the cluster
GitOps is starting to pay for itself
Stuff I learned that doesn’t fit elsewhere
Replicated storage over 1gbps is just not amazing
Maybe a newbie perspective will be helpful
Mistakes were made and learned from
Update: I fixed it
Maybe I’ll save someone else some suffering
Quick tip
No, you spend all your time bike-shedding your setup
Making things hard on myself.
Tiny little quality of life hack
Deploy and configure some images from my hard fought templates
That last post sure didn’t work. Let’s try this
Let’s (fail to) build some golden images
Expanding the limited examples I could find online
Hypervisor hopping is the new distro hopping
Overengineering at its finest
A user isolated way to mount file shares on a shared Linux host
Rootless docker is nice and more secure, but it’s a hassle to set up
I figured some stuff out at work and wanted to save it here
There’s a couple small tricks
LDAP search is your friend, but you’ll have to do some string parsing
Networking is hard.
I picked up a cheap HP procurve 2810, let’s get it working
I may have bit off a bit more than I could chew
What’s HA services without HA storage?
Fastpages is dead, long live quarto
Homelab cluster adventures continue
How can multiple users share a host for docker without a security nightmare?
Sure I could just use the Microsoft built ones, but where’s the fun in that?
Figuring out how to make my own little homelab cluster
Read a cool post, wanted to play around with the idea some more
I’m buying a house, let’s use python to help.
An excuse to teach myself some cool tools and figure out the best place to live
The bigger posts and projects I’ve worked on that I want to share.
I wanted to practice my python and econometrics, found a data error that invalidated the paper’s findings as well.
How to make a reverse proxy work within your LAN
Summarizing how I provision my machines with just the steps to reproduce the process.
How I do all the user level configuration for my system, including setting up my python environment.
Using ansible to install programs and do other system level configuration
My bash script for getting a minimal working Arch install.
Tiny snippets of things I forget or often have to look up about docker compose.
Handy tip if you’re using raspberry pi OS as a media front end and have a harmony remote, or just want to remember how to pair bluetooth from the command line.
Helping myself understand python packaging by working up from a single file to an actual library.
Sometimes my conda environments aren’t reproducible and I can’t figure out why. This documents what I’ve tried so far.
conda environments are a little tricky to incorporate into automation. This post outlines a bit of how they work, and how to integrate them in scripts and makefiles.
Simple (but not super secure) SAMBA shares for the home user
Documenting everything I did to configure my pfsense router.
How to generate certificate authorities so your clients and hosts can all talk to each other easily.
My opinionated setup to do data work in python on Windows, without admin rights.