I got into a pickle where I encrypted the ssh keys I use for my SSH connections on LAN, but then I couldn't run my ansible playbook on my server! ssh-keygen -p and leave the new passphrase blank saved my day (although password protected key files ar ... read more →

Mike Driscoll recently tweeted about making colored out with pandas DataFrames and I just had to try it for myself Use Case First though... why? My biggest use case is a monitoring pipeline of mine... The details aside, the output of my pipeline is ... read more →

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[email protected] [email protected] #! /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 read more →

My Nextcloud woes I wrote here about setting up www-data as the owner of any directories you want nextcloud to manage. However, I regularly struggle wtih permissions issues on my NAS because of the external storage app anyways so I've decided to jus ... read more →

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 address of your download client server, can use just the CNAME record (ie. instead of 172.10 ... read more →

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? LVM When installing Ubuntu live server the default option for how to partition the disk (in my experience) has been to setup an LVM gr ... read more →

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 transcodes will fail... Network Setup To explain I'll give a brief overview of my home setup ... read more →

I use portainer to monitor my docker applications at home. I like that it shows me which ports are mapped where for every container all in one view but every time I click on a port (assuming it'll take me to that application via LAN) it goes to 0.0. ... read more →

I get https URLs and domain resolution at home with pihole's DNS/CNAME records read more →