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... so if that makes sense to you then this TIL probably isn't a ton of value.. if not howev ... read more →
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 ZFS snapshots and due to my own ignorance at the time didn't realize the storage cost of th ... read more →
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 folders and into datasets because ZFS is copy on write so I was essentially duplicating my st ... read more →
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 smooth playback on any device... Now, I thought I'd have that by now with my Nvidia Quadro ... read more →
I've started using Terraform to manage Snowflake infrastructure at work. I'm still a noobie but I've got a workflow that I think makes sense... Here's the directory setup for a simple project with some databases, schemas, and tables to manage. terra ... read more →
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 here to get content somewhat easily! YouTube Disclaimer at Bottom you-get you-get is a nice cli ... read more →
NAS One of the most common use cases for self-hosting anything is a file share system. I have been a fan of TrueNAS for a while. I currently use TrueNAS Core at home, and plan to consider transitioning to TrueNAS Scale soon. Blog post forthcoming on ... read more →
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 setup for how I use wireguard at home. Wireguard Wireguard is an awesome peer-to-peer VPN tun ... read more →
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 asking "how well am I doing at blocking?" There's lots of ways to measure that depending on ... read more →