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  • Using restic to backup my home directory

    Intro 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

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    July 16, 2025
    #homelab #tech True
  • Ghost

    Intro Ghost is my primary application server. These are the specs... I wrote about some of the specs in [[homelab-journey-part-1#current-homelab-setup]] but her

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    July 11, 2025
    #homelab #tech True
  • The Homelab

    The Lab 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. I&#x

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    July 11, 2025
    #homelab #tech True
  • Thoughts To Nostr

    I am trying to use [[temporal]] at home for running automated pipelines. It's definitely overkill for my use case but this is America... So my first projec

    July 08, 2025
    #projects #nostr #homelab #pipelines False
  • Github Star Sorter

    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 rem

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    July 01, 2025
    #homelab #tech True
  • temporal

    [Temporal](https://temporal.io/) is a workflow orchestrator that I'm interested in

    June 24, 2025
    #homelab #tech #temporal False
  • Traefik and gRPC for Temporal at home

    Temporal Networking Woes Someday I will potentially write up some stuff about [[temporal]] but for now it's a workflow orchestrator that I'm intereste

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    June 24, 2025
    #homelab #tech #temporal #grpc True
  • Nextcloud PHP Opache Memory Consumption

    Intro Today I was combing through Nextcloud, just taking a gander at the apps, updates, etc. The OPcache buffer is nearly full. To assure that all scripts can b

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    June 23, 2025
    #homelab #tech #nextcloud True
  • Quit issueing 200s for 500s

    Stop this nonsense ![20250622115500_5bd3bc21.png](https://cdn.statically.io/gh/pypeaday/images.pype.dev/main/blog-media/20250622115500_5bd3bc21.png)

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    June 22, 2025
    #homelab #tech #nonsense #google #veo3 True
  • Thinking In Diagrams

    Intro 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 proble

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    June 20, 2025
    #homelab #tech #dev-ops #planning True
  • Homelab Youtube Podcasts to AudioBookShelf Pipeline

    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

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    June 18, 2025
    #homelab #tech #audiobookshelf #pinchflat True
  • source_up for nested .envrc

    TLDR 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 envi

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    June 17, 2025
    #homelab #tech #direnv #cli True
  • Stable Diffusion QR Codes for Josh

    After my blunder ![20250627111955_e86d5db2.png](https://cdn.statically.io/gh/pypeaday/images.pype.dev/main/blog-media/20250627111955_e86d5db2.png) (fjords of Fi

    June 17, 2025
    #homelab #tech #digital-harbor #qr #stable-diffusion False
  • U-Blue Aurora Upgrade Broke HWA Docker

    I use Universal Blue's [Aurora](https://getaurora.dev/en) distribution on my daily driver desktop, and I rebooted today which led what I imagine is a kerne

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    June 15, 2025
    #homelab #tech #universal-blue True
  • Homelab Pinchflat

    Why? I've written about [[self-hosted-media]] before and addressed some thoughts with YouTube. Lately though I've had 2 use cases for offline YouTube

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    June 14, 2025
    #homelab #tech True
  • If You Want Something Make It So - Song Style

    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&qu

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    June 14, 2025
    #homelab #tech #series-if-you-want-it-make-it-so #music True
  • ZSA typing challenge issue

    ZSA I love [zsa](https://zsa.io) and have been using a moonlander for a few years now. They recently launched [typ.ing](https://typ.ing) as a way to train your

    June 13, 2025
    #homelab #tech #zsa #typing True
  • Double Check Your DNS Records

    My Blog I host [my blog](https://pype.dev) on cloudflare and manage my infra with terraform. I got a 522 when I went to `https://www.pype.dev` recently and I wo

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    June 13, 2025
    #homelab #tech #dns #terraform #cloudflare True
  • Example For Andrew

    ![20250608194801_809d5306.png](https://cdn.statically.io/gh/pypeaday/images.pype.dev/main/blog-media/20250608194801_809d5306.png)

    June 08, 2025
    #homelab #homelab #tech True
  • Double check your CIDR blocks!

    tl;dr Copy paste - don't rely on typing correctly... The Issue I use tailscale at home and generally love it. One thing I use it for is whitelisting - so I

    June 07, 2025
    #homelab #tech #tailscale #til True
  • I built a simple app for adding images to my blog

    Quick Deets 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: upl

    June 07, 2025
    #homelab #tech #python #uv True
  • homelab-journey-part-1

    Introduction 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 h

    June 05, 2025
    #homelab #tech #series-homelab True
  • Backups interrupted by full disk usage

    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 `ssh` in and I n

    June 03, 2025
    #homelab #tech True
  • homelab-computer-vision-pipelines

    Done in 11 seconds! Subtitle and audio files are in the outputs folder. I wanted to talk through an idea I have for some computer vision pipelines at home. I he

    May 31, 2025
    #tech #homelab #computer-vision False
  • Backups are dope

    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

    May 27, 2025
    #tech #homelab #zfs #til True
  • SearXNG

    I heard about [SearXNG](https://searxng.org) on a couple podcasts and saw it trending on GitHub several times before I finally decided to stand it up. I used i

    May 25, 2025
    #homelab #tech #til True
  • Grafana + Gotify for push notifications

    It's easy to configure push notifications through Gotify from Grafana by setting up a generic `Webhook` Alerting Contact Point... The parameters are: HTTP

    April 07, 2025
    #infrastructure #homelab #tech #til True
  • Add a healthcheck to your FastAPI app

    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 Make sure to

    December 15, 2024
    #python #homelab #tech #til True
  • Jellyfin container updates for HWE + AMD

    I use LSIO Jelyfin container for the easy addon they provide for AMD GPUs but I couldn't get trickplay to work with HWE... There was almost NOTHING on the

    December 14, 2024
    #docker #linux #homelab #til True
  • hostnamectl to easily change hostname

    hostnamectl is apparently a linux utility for easily changing your hostname in a variety of ways I learned there's transient and static hostnames, so that&

    December 06, 2024
    #linux #terminal #homelab #cli #til True
  • DNS Broke After Reboot - Ubuntu 22.04

    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... After much t

    November 22, 2024
    #homelab #linux #tech #til True
  • OPNSense Bootstrap Recovery

    enabling DHCP WAN port (`dhclient <iface>`)- running the bootstrap script - `sh /usr/local/sbin/opnsense-bootstrap`

    November 07, 2024
    #infrastructure #homelab #tech #til True
  • Recovering OPNSense

    I woke up to faulty internet and after some troubleshooting it turns out the root zfs dataset that OPNSense boots from got corrupted... PRO-TIP - Auto backup yo

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    November 06, 2024
    #blog #homelab True
  • docker-remote-add

    Add from url?? ADD http://example.com/cars.csv /tmp/cars.csv Unpack automatically!? (.tar, .tar.gz, .tgz, .bz2, .tbz2, .txz, .zip) ADD myapp.tar.gz /opt/myapp/

    September 17, 2024
    #homelab #linux #tech #til True
  • Docker copy and chown

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

    September 17, 2024
    #linux #homelab #tech #til True
  • Interesting IPs between Jellyfin clients and server depending on tailscale and server address

    When connecting from my phone to jellyfin I'm seeing some interesting patterns. Scenarios Tailscale IP of phone is listed as local network to jellyfin Wifi

    July 12, 2024
    #homelab #linux #tech False
  • Upgrading your kernel can F you up... whoops

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

    June 26, 2024
    #homelab #linux #tech #til True
  • Customize K9s

    To customize k9s use the skins from catppuccin or the ones k9s supplies Then edit your k9s config Other k9s skins are available [here](https://github.com/derail

    May 06, 2024
    #cli #homelab #tech #k8s #til True
  • Kanboard to keep me focused on my own ideas

    TL;DR I've been using kanboard as a self-hosted kanban board. It's keeping me focused on [Digital Harbor](https://myditialharbor.com) when I'd ra

    April 20, 2024
    #homelab #tech False
  • DHCP Restart to Save Ubuntu 22.04 Server Networking

    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

    December 31, 2023
    #homelab #linux #tech #til True
  • Simple Port Forwarding OPNSense

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

    October 17, 2023
    #homelab #tech #til True
  • Refresh Nextcloud Groupfolders after messing around on the filesystem

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

    September 23, 2023
    #homelab #linux #tech #til True
  • lsof to find what's using your filesystem

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

    April 09, 2023
    #zfs #homelab #tech #til True
  • Changing ZFS key for child datasets of encrypted dataset after migration

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

    April 08, 2023
    #zfs #homelab #tech #til True
  • Stable Diffusion Notes

    ChatGPT Prompt: Stable Diffusion is an AI art generation model similar to DALLE-2. Here are some prompts for generating art with Stable Diffusion. Example: A gh

    January 28, 2023
    #homelab #data #tech False
  • FFMPEG 10-bit videos to 8-bit

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

    January 16, 2023
    #cli #homelab #tech #til True
  • Reminder about ssh-copy-id for SSH and Ansible

    `ssh-copy-id -i my.key.pub <hostname probably from tailscale>` this makes sure I can run ansible from my desktop against VMs on my server easily if they

    December 28, 2022
    #homelab #linux #tech #til True
  • Nextcloud Docker Upgrade Error

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

    December 28, 2022
    #homelab #linux #tech False
  • Systemd timer for syncoid

    I have a bash script called `syncoid-job` which boils down to a barebones - I want to run this script hourly but as my user (notice the no-privilege-elevation f

    December 21, 2022
    #zfs #homelab #tech True
  • Cron for Nextcloud in Docker

    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

    December 13, 2022
    #homelab #docker #tech #til True
  • Don't forget to load XMP!

    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 that

    October 09, 2022
    #homelab #linux #tech #til True
  • You can embed gifs?!

    I learned you can embed gifs and stuch in things other than GH personal pages! So here I'll keep ones I like and might use later

    October 09, 2022
    #homelab #webdev #tech #til True
  • My PassMark Scores

    !!! note "Babyblue v2" !!! note "Venus " !!! note "Hogwarts" !!! note "Server 2 ... Change the name" !!! note "Serv

    October 08, 2022
    #homelab #linux #tech #til True
  • Quick setup of ZFS encrytped datasets with sane permissions

    Assuming you have a pool called `tank`... And assuming you have an encrypted dataset (See [Jim Saltar's short intro](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/0

    October 06, 2022
    #zfs #homelab #tech #til True
  • Trick to login to web server on another box on lan

    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!

    September 12, 2022
    #homelab #cli #tech #til False
  • Paperless-NGX filtering on IDs instead of values

    To filter for saved views from the admin console you have to use the `id` of the tag you are using to filter on... Ex: filtering for tags "Inbox" does

    August 09, 2022
    #homelab #tech #til True
  • Mounting exFAT USB in Linux

    Steps `sudo fdisk -l` then look for the device and partition get the Type column mount Example

    July 31, 2022
    #linux #homelab #tech #til True
  • Xrdp-Authentication-Required-To-Create-Managed-Color-Device

    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

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    July 18, 2022
    #homelab #tech #til True
  • ZFS Permissions for Sanoid/Syncoid

    `zfs allow -u $USER clone,load-key,create,destroy,mount,mountpoint,receive,send,rollback,compression,snapshot,hold,keylocation,bookmark tank` load-key only need

    July 08, 2022
    #zfs #homelab #cli #til True
  • Setup KVM to boot from local PXE server

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

    July 06, 2022
    #homelab #linux #tech #til False
  • Self-hosted Docker registry with proxy pull through

    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 registry,

    July 06, 2022
    #homelab #zfs #tech False
  • kvm-network-interface-via-nat-ubuntu-20

    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 tim

    June 25, 2022
    #homelab #linux #tech True
  • Reset SSH key passphrase

    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-keyge

    June 13, 2022
    #homelab #cli #linux #til True
  • Samba on Ubuntu 22 needs "inherit permissions" set

    see samba config on hogwarts

    May 31, 2022
    #homelab #linux #tech #til False
  • Reindex Nextcloud After Adding Data via CLI

    My Nextcloud woes I wrote [here]("nextcloud-permissions-with-zfs-and-ansible-nas") about setting up `www-data` as the owner of any directories you wan

    May 29, 2022
    #homelab #linux #tech #til True
  • arr client config

    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

    May 28, 2022
    #homelab #tech #til True
  • Add space to your LVM on Ubuntu

    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 de

    May 26, 2022
    #homelab #linux #tech #til True
  • Tdarr worker nodes share the cache!

    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 tran

    May 25, 2022
    #homelab #tech #til False
  • Local DNS with Pi-hole

    Spoilers 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 "kic

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    May 23, 2022
    #homelab #tech #til True
  • Initial Proxmox Setup

    `apt-get` by default wil go to the pve.enterprise repos so we need to point it to the non-enterprise ones.

    May 23, 2022
    #homelab #tech #linux False
  • Netplan change from Focal to Jammy

    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 with t

    May 22, 2022
    #homelab #linux #tech #til True
  • Configure bridge network on Ubuntu 22.04 with Netplan

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

    May 22, 2022
    #homelab #linux #tech #til False
  • Nextcloud permissions with ZFS and Ansible-NAS

    TL;DR As the nextcloud docs say... if you want to write to an external volume that location has to be writeable by the user/group `www-data` on the host system.

    May 19, 2022
    #homelab #zfs #tech #til True
  • Remove ZFS Dataset Specific Snapshots

    I started my homelab journey being super naive about ZFS and how to manage the filesystem... that bit me in the butt when transfering a ton of files out of fold

    May 19, 2022
    #linux #zfs #cli #bash #homelab #til True
  • See ZFS snapshot disk usage

    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 ZF

    May 19, 2022
    #zfs #homelab #tech #til True
  • How I use Nextcloud for safe central storage

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

    May 19, 2022
    #homelab #zfs #tech False
  • Tdarr

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    April 28, 2022
    #blog #homelab #tech False
  • Jellyfin-Media-Players

    I use Jellyfin at home for serving up most of our media - movies and shows etc. My dream is to have a GPU capable of transcoding any and all of our media for sm

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    April 17, 2022
    #homelab #tech True
  • Terraform-01

    I've started using [Terraform](https://www.terraform.io/) to manage Snowflake infrastructure at work. I'm still a noobie but I've got a workflow

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    April 15, 2022
    #homelab #tech False
  • self-hosted-media

    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 h

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    March 24, 2022
    #python #homelab #tech #series-homelab True
  • Truenas-And-Wireguard

    NAS One of the most common use cases for self-hosting anything is a file share system. I have been a fan of [TrueNAS](https://www.truenas.com/) for a while. I

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    March 23, 2022
    #homelab #tech True
  • Wireguard

    VPN 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

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    March 12, 2022
    #homelab #homepage #tech True
  • Adblock-Coverage

    I run pi-hole at home for ad blocking and some internal DNS/DHCP handling. __pi hole posts on the way__ One thing I've never put too much thought in is ask

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    March 07, 2022
    #homelab #til #tech True
  • Webservers-And-Indexes

    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

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    March 06, 2022
    #homelab #tech #til True
  • Traefik

    Traefik If you don't know about [traefik](https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/) and you need a reverse-proxy then you might want to check it out. I used to use

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    March 06, 2022
    #homelab #tech True