My dusty corner of the interconnected world
I'm tired of my work - and, honestly, of everything digital. This has happened before, but this time it feels more real. Maybe that's just because I'm caught in the middle of the storm right now, and not enough time has passed for the “fading effect bias” to kick in and soften it all. At moments like this, I feel as if I'm wasting my time doing anything related to a computer. Even writing this…
Sometimes I get the urge to write about what I'm doing or what I've discovered. But since I stay away from social media, it usually ends up going nowhere, the urge gets ignored until it builds up again. Right now, that urge is boiling over again, and I remembered: I have a website. This website. And even if no one reads it, I can still write on it, and that's enough . So, I’m reclaiming a bit of…
TL;DR : Try Obsidian.md — it's great! Over the past few years, I’ve found myself in need of a tool to help me take notes — just to remember things, or to quickly store thoughts in the moment. When I was younger, I never cared much about where I wrote those notes. I thought just writing them down was enough to remember them. Silly me... Eventually, I realized I couldn’t keep everything in my head,…
Some weeks ago, I started the migration of my homelab from many docker-compose files to a more organized and reliable Kubernetes cluster. In both these scenarios, I needed a way to collect all the links to the various services I have in one place. In the docker-compose implementation, I've used Heimdall , a great tool that gets the job done, but it requires some manual work. With the Kubernetes…
During these days, I'm tidying up my homelab and found the necessity of having an internal domain to expose some apps inside my local network but not to the internet. For example, I use Vault to store secrets, and I want an easy way to access the web-ui rather than using the IP address. The solution in Kubernetes is to create an Ingress ; right now, I only have Ingresses with my main domain…
The other night I was wandering around my homelab and noticed that I didn't correctly expose my new home assistant instance to the internet. Some months ago, home assistant (from now on HA) found its new permanent home, a Rasperry PI 4 4GB; since we're in lockdown, I didn't need to reach HA outside my local network. I'm still working from home (and love it), but it's time to fix this now. While…