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Nice improvement from Woodpecker CI Update

Sometimes, software updates are nice, actually.

Bahn Journey Nr 7 & 8: Hoping for Excellence in Train Service

Hope.

Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader

A short review

Yacy Part 2: Crawling and Putting it on the Backburner

It has gotten to be a bit more than a small weekend project

I'm Frustrated about my Inability to Advise Homelab Newcomers

Let's have a spontaneous post about frustrations about myself triggered by a Mastodon post

Bahn Journey Nr 5 & Nr 6: Way too early, but going well

I got up at 6 in the morning

Yacy Part 1: Deployment

Deploying the YaCy search engine

Wants vs Needs: Trying to Talk Myself out of Ordering an MNT Reform Next Laptop

I don't need a new laptop. But I do want an MNT Reform Next.

Smokeweb: Setting up Database Connections

Writing database tests in Golang for Postgres and running tests on a real DB on Woodpecker CI

Bahn Journey Nr 4: If it already starts like this...

It started with 15 minutes of delay right out of the gate

Bahn Journey Nr 3: Almost!

It looked so good...

Smokeweb: Setting up a CI with Go Caches in Woodpecker

Setting up a CI with Go build and module caches in WoodpeckerCI

Smoking-Web: Starting the Project

I'm finally done working through a few Go books and can finally start my project

Mosquitto: Update to v2.1

It needs a few changes...

Attempting a Video Game Review: Distant Worlds 2

A good 4X game

Bahn Journey Nr 2: Late, but uneventful

The Bahn gods did not smile on me on this journey either

Thank your for Trävelling with Deutsche Bahn

I try to write the frustration away.

A Few Thoughts On Self-Hosting and its Viability as a Solution

I ramble a bit about self-hosting and some blog posts from last year

Volla Tablet Part 1: Volla OS

I got myself a tablet with de-googled Android from a German Company

S3 Performance and Homelab Hardware Musings

I finally figured out my S3 performance problems and think about a Homelab Hardware refresh

FreshRSS: An RSS/Atom Feed Reader

I try Nextcloud News with RSSGuard as well as FreshRSS, ending on FreshRSS

Goaccess: A CLI Tool for Webserver Access Log Analysis

A short one about a small CLI tool for analyzing access logs of webservers in the terminal

Updating the Firmware on my Turing Pi 2 Boards

I had to touch hardware

My Pet Programming Project: Smoking

A small tale about my longest-running personal project

Kubernetes Cert Renewal and Monitoring

I had a little k8s certificate SNAFU

My Desktop PC Setup and Creating a Ceph Common Ebuild for Gentoo

I just needed the mount helpers, but not Ceph itself

Task Management With Taskwarrior

Pretending to keep my life on track, 1500 tasks at a time

Returning to Programming and Fanboying about Exercism

Exercism is a website with programming tasks

History Podcasts

An ensemble of history podcasts I like to listen to

Fiction Podcast: The Antique Shop

A fantasy audio drama with a single female narrator

Gathering Metrics from Ceph RGW S3

I set up a Prometheus exporter to gather metrics from Ceph's S3 RadosGW.

Updating CloudNativePG Postgres Images

Switching the CloudNativePG Postgres image from the old variant to the new one using Debian as the base

Replacing a Broken HDD in my Ceph Cluster

I had to replace a broken HDD in my Ceph cluster

Updating my Kubeadm k8s Cluster from 1.30 to 1.33

Using Ansible to update my kubeadm k8s cluster from 1.30 to 1.33

Migrating my CNPG backups to the Barman Cloud Plugin

This went quite nicely

Setting up Bookwyrm

Setting up Bookwyrm, translating its docker-compose setup to Kubernetes

Improving Multi-Arch Image Build Performance by not Emulating

I've recently improved my container image build performance by not emulating anymore

Tinkerbell Part V: Booting HookOS on a Pi 4

I'm trying to boot Tinkerbell's HookOS on a Pi 4 without iPXE/EFI

Configuring Mastodon Prometheus Metrics

Gathering Mastodon sidekiq metrics with Prometheus

Tinkerbell Part IV: Provisioning a Raspberry Pi 4

I configure Tinkerbell and Dnsmasq to provisioning a Pi 4 with an USB SSD

Tinkerbell Part III: Install and First Provisioning

I deploy Tinkerbell on my k3s cluster and provision the first VM with it

Tinkerbell Part II: Lab Setup

Setting up the lab for Tinkerbell

Organizing Helm charts and other Manifests with Helmfile

How to organize and handle it all?

Tinkerbell Part I: The Plan

Into to the Tinkerbell deployment

Gathering SNMP Metrics with the SNMP Exporter

Gathering metrics from a DrayTek VDSL modem

Migrating from Gitea to Forgejo

Migrating from Gitea to Forgejo via repo migration

Setting up Thanos for Metrics Storage

I can stop whenever I want.

Migrating my Kubernetes Control Plane to Raspberry Pi 5

Migrating my Kube control plane from Pi 4 to Pi 5

Sammelsurium I

A random mix of topics too small for their own posts but not ephemeral enough for a Fediverse post

What's next after the K8s Migration?

A meandering stream of thought about future Homelab projects