Connecting to Home from Abroad
A long time ago I set up a VPN server on my pfSense network gateway. Then I switched away from pfSense, and then Covid happened, and during a number of years...
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fedora
Fixing Performance Issues in Dirt Rally 2.0
A while ago I suddenly began seeing wild framerate fluctuations and gradual performance drops as stages progressed in my current favorite car game, Dirt Rall...
Lenovo X260 as a Unix workhorse
I’m writing this post from an old Lenovo X260 on which I’ve installed Fedora 39. For desktop usage this is currently my favorite Linux distribution: It suppo...
Fullscreen Gaming in Gnome
I’ve been mostly enjoying doing my gaming in Fedora Linux, but the last couple of versions have been mildly irritating, in that some games were unable to gai...
FreeBSD
FreeBSD After a Couple of Months
It’s now been almost four months since I relapsed into running some FreeBSD servers, and I’ve now had time to lift them through my first FreeBSD major versio...
GitOps website deployment with Gitea
I’m slowly simplifying and minimizing my home server environment for no particular reason other than enjoying the KISS principle.
FreeBSD Base Configuration
A while back I realized I haven’t been running FreeBSD since almost a decade, when I used it along with CARP for my first HAProxy load balancer pair at work....
Linux
Getting My Ducks in a Row
My home environment is mostly set to auto-update when new things are available - including my hypervisors. Occasionally, things would restart but my web serv...
PowerShell for Unix nerds
(This post was inspired by a question on ServerFault) Windows has had an increasingly useful scripting language since 2006 in PowerShell. After Microsoft ap...
Windows
Prometheus data from PowerShell
At work we have a system which is dependent on fetching email from an on-premises Exchange server via Exchange Web Services (EWS). Apparently there’s a “wont...
PowerShell for Unix nerds
(This post was inspired by a question on ServerFault) Windows has had an increasingly useful scripting language since 2006 in PowerShell. After Microsoft ap...
PowerShell
Prometheus data from PowerShell
At work we have a system which is dependent on fetching email from an on-premises Exchange server via Exchange Web Services (EWS). Apparently there’s a “wont...
PowerShell for Unix nerds
(This post was inspired by a question on ServerFault) Windows has had an increasingly useful scripting language since 2006 in PowerShell. After Microsoft ap...
Jekyll
GitOps website deployment with Gitea
I’m slowly simplifying and minimizing my home server environment for no particular reason other than enjoying the KISS principle.
Starting a Jekyll blog
I’ve begun experimenting with a statically generated site in place of my Wordpress instance: The more I work with technology, the more I find myself enjoying...
Ansible
Ansible Secrets Management with 1Password
I’m migrating my work code repositories from an on-prem GitLab instance to GitHub as part of an integration project we’re working on. One of the consequences...
Deploying a Ubiquiti Unifi appliance with Ansible
I finally got tired of my old 802.11n Apple Airport Express(!) that has been serving the kitchen part of our house with an Internet connection for many yea...
linux
Fixing Performance Issues in Dirt Rally 2.0
A while ago I suddenly began seeing wild framerate fluctuations and gradual performance drops as stages progressed in my current favorite car game, Dirt Rall...
Fullscreen Gaming in Gnome
I’ve been mostly enjoying doing my gaming in Fedora Linux, but the last couple of versions have been mildly irritating, in that some games were unable to gai...
gaming
Fixing Performance Issues in Dirt Rally 2.0
A while ago I suddenly began seeing wild framerate fluctuations and gradual performance drops as stages progressed in my current favorite car game, Dirt Rall...
Fullscreen Gaming in Gnome
I’ve been mostly enjoying doing my gaming in Fedora Linux, but the last couple of versions have been mildly irritating, in that some games were unable to gai...
regex
PowerShell for Unix nerds
(This post was inspired by a question on ServerFault) Windows has had an increasingly useful scripting language since 2006 in PowerShell. After Microsoft ap...
HAProxy
Serving static web pages from HAProxy
I recently had to prove ownership of a web domain at work. The suggested process was easy enough: Present a web page with your company name, and a way to sen...
hacks
Serving static web pages from HAProxy
I recently had to prove ownership of a web domain at work. The suggested process was easy enough: Present a web page with your company name, and a way to sen...
Proxmox
Reflections on Proxmox VE
I’ve now been using Proxmox VE as a hypervisor in my home lab for a couple of years, and as I’ve reverted to plain Ubuntu Server + KVM, I figured I would try...
Ubuntu
Reflections on Proxmox VE
I’ve now been using Proxmox VE as a hypervisor in my home lab for a couple of years, and as I’ve reverted to plain Ubuntu Server + KVM, I figured I would try...
KVM
Reflections on Proxmox VE
I’ve now been using Proxmox VE as a hypervisor in my home lab for a couple of years, and as I’ve reverted to plain Ubuntu Server + KVM, I figured I would try...
hypervisors
Reflections on Proxmox VE
I’ve now been using Proxmox VE as a hypervisor in my home lab for a couple of years, and as I’ve reverted to plain Ubuntu Server + KVM, I figured I would try...
blogging
Starting a Jekyll blog
I’ve begun experimenting with a statically generated site in place of my Wordpress instance: The more I work with technology, the more I find myself enjoying...
WiFi
Deploying a Ubiquiti Unifi appliance with Ansible
I finally got tired of my old 802.11n Apple Airport Express(!) that has been serving the kitchen part of our house with an Internet connection for many yea...
Ubiquiti
Deploying a Ubiquiti Unifi appliance with Ansible
I finally got tired of my old 802.11n Apple Airport Express(!) that has been serving the kitchen part of our house with an Internet connection for many yea...
AirPort
Deploying a Ubiquiti Unifi appliance with Ansible
I finally got tired of my old 802.11n Apple Airport Express(!) that has been serving the kitchen part of our house with an Internet connection for many yea...
baking
A nice baguette
For once a very non-technical post.
hobbies
A nice baguette
For once a very non-technical post.
food
A nice baguette
For once a very non-technical post.
Gitea
GitOps website deployment with Gitea
I’m slowly simplifying and minimizing my home server environment for no particular reason other than enjoying the KISS principle.
Nginx
GitOps website deployment with Gitea
I’m slowly simplifying and minimizing my home server environment for no particular reason other than enjoying the KISS principle.
webserver
GitOps website deployment with Gitea
I’m slowly simplifying and minimizing my home server environment for no particular reason other than enjoying the KISS principle.
ITOps
Evidence-based IT Operations
A significant part of our time dealing with computers in some role or other, is spent troubleshooting why something happens that differs from what we intende...
SiteReliabilityEngineering
Evidence-based IT Operations
A significant part of our time dealing with computers in some role or other, is spent troubleshooting why something happens that differs from what we intende...
SRE
Evidence-based IT Operations
A significant part of our time dealing with computers in some role or other, is spent troubleshooting why something happens that differs from what we intende...
Troubleshooting
Evidence-based IT Operations
A significant part of our time dealing with computers in some role or other, is spent troubleshooting why something happens that differs from what we intende...
systemd
Getting My Ducks in a Row
My home environment is mostly set to auto-update when new things are available - including my hypervisors. Occasionally, things would restart but my web serv...
troubleshooting
Getting My Ducks in a Row
My home environment is mostly set to auto-update when new things are available - including my hypervisors. Occasionally, things would restart but my web serv...
Opnsense
Happy Network News
I started writing a completely different story last weekend, but life is like an assorted box of network cables, and here we are.
IPv6
Happy Network News
I started writing a completely different story last weekend, but life is like an assorted box of network cables, and here we are.
1Password
Ansible Secrets Management with 1Password
I’m migrating my work code repositories from an on-prem GitLab instance to GitHub as part of an integration project we’re working on. One of the consequences...
macOS
Ansible Secrets Management with 1Password
I’m migrating my work code repositories from an on-prem GitLab instance to GitHub as part of an integration project we’re working on. One of the consequences...
Bash
Ansible Secrets Management with 1Password
I’m migrating my work code repositories from an on-prem GitLab instance to GitHub as part of an integration project we’re working on. One of the consequences...
Exchange
Prometheus data from PowerShell
At work we have a system which is dependent on fetching email from an on-premises Exchange server via Exchange Web Services (EWS). Apparently there’s a “wont...
Prometheus
Prometheus data from PowerShell
At work we have a system which is dependent on fetching email from an on-premises Exchange server via Exchange Web Services (EWS). Apparently there’s a “wont...
Grafana
Prometheus data from PowerShell
At work we have a system which is dependent on fetching email from an on-premises Exchange server via Exchange Web Services (EWS). Apparently there’s a “wont...
monitoring
Prometheus data from PowerShell
At work we have a system which is dependent on fetching email from an on-premises Exchange server via Exchange Web Services (EWS). Apparently there’s a “wont...
observability
Prometheus data from PowerShell
At work we have a system which is dependent on fetching email from an on-premises Exchange server via Exchange Web Services (EWS). Apparently there’s a “wont...
gnome
Fullscreen Gaming in Gnome
I’ve been mostly enjoying doing my gaming in Fedora Linux, but the last couple of versions have been mildly irritating, in that some games were unable to gai...
haproxy
Messing With the Badguys
Scrolling through my HAProxy logs, I got a bit miffed at the amount of bot traffic I saw attempting to access nonexistent paths obviously looking for weaknes...
esxi
Alternatives to ESXi in the Home Lab
On Valentine’s day this year, Broadcom did what many of us expected it to do, and decapitated the free vSphere (ESXi) hypervisor.
vsphere
Alternatives to ESXi in the Home Lab
On Valentine’s day this year, Broadcom did what many of us expected it to do, and decapitated the free vSphere (ESXi) hypervisor.
kvm
Alternatives to ESXi in the Home Lab
On Valentine’s day this year, Broadcom did what many of us expected it to do, and decapitated the free vSphere (ESXi) hypervisor.
bhyve
Alternatives to ESXi in the Home Lab
On Valentine’s day this year, Broadcom did what many of us expected it to do, and decapitated the free vSphere (ESXi) hypervisor.
proxmox
Alternatives to ESXi in the Home Lab
On Valentine’s day this year, Broadcom did what many of us expected it to do, and decapitated the free vSphere (ESXi) hypervisor.
virtualbox
Alternatives to ESXi in the Home Lab
On Valentine’s day this year, Broadcom did what many of us expected it to do, and decapitated the free vSphere (ESXi) hypervisor.
hyper-v
Alternatives to ESXi in the Home Lab
On Valentine’s day this year, Broadcom did what many of us expected it to do, and decapitated the free vSphere (ESXi) hypervisor.
laptop
Lenovo X260 as a Unix workhorse
I’m writing this post from an old Lenovo X260 on which I’ve installed Fedora 39. For desktop usage this is currently my favorite Linux distribution: It suppo...
x260
Lenovo X260 as a Unix workhorse
I’m writing this post from an old Lenovo X260 on which I’ve installed Fedora 39. For desktop usage this is currently my favorite Linux distribution: It suppo...
wine
Fixing Performance Issues in Dirt Rally 2.0
A while ago I suddenly began seeing wild framerate fluctuations and gradual performance drops as stages progressed in my current favorite car game, Dirt Rall...
dirtrally2
Fixing Performance Issues in Dirt Rally 2.0
A while ago I suddenly began seeing wild framerate fluctuations and gradual performance drops as stages progressed in my current favorite car game, Dirt Rall...
vpn
Connecting to Home from Abroad
A long time ago I set up a VPN server on my pfSense network gateway. Then I switched away from pfSense, and then Covid happened, and during a number of years...
wireguard
Connecting to Home from Abroad
A long time ago I set up a VPN server on my pfSense network gateway. Then I switched away from pfSense, and then Covid happened, and during a number of years...
opnsense
Connecting to Home from Abroad
A long time ago I set up a VPN server on my pfSense network gateway. Then I switched away from pfSense, and then Covid happened, and during a number of years...
macos
Connecting to Home from Abroad
A long time ago I set up a VPN server on my pfSense network gateway. Then I switched away from pfSense, and then Covid happened, and during a number of years...