Ian’s blog

What I learned building a pipeline to deploy terraform in Azure DevOps

Mistakes were made and learned from

Rubber ducking my Argo CD app of apps issue

Update: I fixed it

For each tasks in Databricks asset bundles

Maybe I’ll save someone else some suffering

Parsing XSD schemas in Databricks

Maybe I’ll save someone else some suffering

Handling merge conflicts on PRs the nice way

Setting up nix development enviroments

No, you spend all your time bike-shedding your setup

Unifi Controller setup in docker (across VLANs)

Making things hard on myself.

Setting up internal name resolution in Windows and WSL (probably Linux too)

Tiny little quality of life hack

Deploying and configuring machines in Xen-Orchestra

Deploy and configure some images from my hard fought templates

Working Templates in Xen-Orchestra

That last post sure didn’t work. Let’s try this

(Failing to build) Templates in Xen-Orchestra

Let’s (fail to) build some golden images

Databricks workspace config in terraform

Expanding the limited examples I could find online

Databricks cluster policies in terraform

Expanding the limited examples I could find online

Checking out XCP-NG

Hypervisor hopping is the new distro hopping

Automating my network

Overengineering at its finest

A couple notes on working with Nvidia cards

I figured some stuff out at work and wanted to save it here

Install Microsoft ODBC drivers with ansible

There’s a couple small tricks

Finding all AD group users with ansible

LDAP search is your friend, but you’ll have to do some string parsing

Configuring Rootless docker with ansible

Rootless docker is nice and more secure, but it’s a hassle to set up

Configuring autofs for CIFS mounts with ansible

A user isolated way to mount file shares on a shared Linux host

Redesigning my network

Networking is hard.

Setting up my first managed switch

I picked up a cheap HP procurve 2810, let’s get it working

Notes on Kubernetes the hard way

I may have bit off a bit more than I could chew

Home Cluster Part 4 - Setup CEPH

What’s HA services without HA storage?

Migrating to quarto

Fastpages is dead, long live quarto

Home cluster part 3 - Setup VM templates on proxmox

Homelab cluster adventures continue

Home cluster part 2 - Configuring Proxmox

Homelab cluster adventures continue

Setting up rootless docker

How can multiple users share a host for docker without a security nightmare?

Building my own devcontainers

Sure I could just use the Microsoft built ones, but where’s the fun in that?

Home cluster part 1 - Intro and Proxmox install

Figuring out how to make my own little homelab cluster

Dunning-Kruger is autocorrelation

Read a cool post, wanted to play around with the idea some more

Modeling out fixed closed vs capped variable mortgages

I’m buying a house, let’s use python to help.

Building a where to live app

An excuse to teach myself some cool tools and figure out the best place to live

My Portfolio

The bigger posts and projects I’ve worked on that I want to share.

Alberta’s Fiscal Responses To Fluctuations In Non-Renewable-Resource Revenue

I wanted to practice my python and econometrics, found a data error that invalidated the paper’s findings as well.

Using traefik for internal services

How to make a reverse proxy work within your LAN

Automating provisioning Arch continued - TLDR

Summarizing how I provision my machines with just the steps to reproduce the process.

Automating provisioning Arch continued - dotfiles

How I do all the user level configuration for my system, including setting up my python environment.

Automating provisioning Arch continued - Ansible

Using ansible to install programs and do other system level configuration

Automating provisioning Arch - OS installation

My bash script for getting a minimal working Arch install.

Notes on docker-compose

Tiny snippets of things I forget or often have to look up about docker compose.

Connecting a Harmony remote to a raspberry pi

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.

Python packaging

Helping myself understand python packaging by working up from a single file to an actual library.

Trouble with reproducible conda environments

Sometimes my conda environments aren’t reproducible and I can’t figure out why. This documents what I’ve tried so far.

How to work with conda environments in shell scripts and Makefiles

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.

A basic SAMBA share for home networks

Simple (but not super secure) SAMBA shares for the home user

Building pfsense

Documenting everything I did to configure my pfsense router.

Managing SSH keys for a home network

How to generate certificate authorities so your clients and hosts can all talk to each other easily.

Setting up for data science in python on Windows

My opinionated setup to do data work in python on Windows, without admin rights.