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blog-post nic // forgejo
Increase inotify limit in your CI workers
Today I tripped over a CI failure that I had to think about for a while. I build [zensical](https://github.com/zensical/zensical) static sites in CI on my Forge
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til nic // docker
Prettier Docker 'ps' Command
The `docker ps` command is very useful, but I hate reading the output. Turns out, you can make it prettier: `docker ps` --format "table" is implied wi
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blog-post nic // tofu
Setup A Cloudflare Tunnel With Terraform
I am cooking up some stuff at home and want to put it on the interwebs, but I don't want it on the same infra as my homelab. Now... I only have a server or
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til nic // terminal
COLUMNS Env Var For Nicer Screenshots
I was working on [[uv-run-pep-723-is-a-match-made-in-heaven]] and I wanted to grab a screenshot of a TUI, but my terminal is full screen and the TUI was then su
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blog-post nic // series-if-you-want-it-make-it-so
UV Run + PEP 723 Is A Match Made In Heaven
This post will be short but hopefully be a dense few paragraphs about how using `uv run foo.py` along with [PEP 723](https://peps.python.org/pep-0723/) is life-
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blog-post nic // llm
Small Steps Towards Handling Malicious Traffic on Static Sites
Today I saw a random IP hitting an app server I had open via `tailscale funnel` and it got me thinking that I need to take some precautions against these real w
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til nic // dev
Check SWAP in htop
I struggle with maxxing swap on all my machines, I am sure it's a neovim config that I've propagated everywhere and I'm too lazy to figure it out
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blog-post nic // speakr
Speakr For Recording and Transcribing at Home
I have been using Whisper-WebUI for several months in my homelab to record and transcribe myself thinking out loud. It's been great. Then I came across [sp
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blog-post nic // homelab
RepoFlow Robot User
I'm trying to lean into [repoFlow](https://repoflow.io) at home, and model some slightly better patterns than open borders to artifacts across all my servi
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til nic // jellyfin
Use Jellyfin Tags For Content Moderation
Jellyfin brings in ratings and allows you to set custom ratings for shows, which is nice for things like "block anything worse than TV-14 for my kid's
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blog-post nic // cooking
Chili Notes
I could've sworn I had a chili list going but alas... 2025年10月04日 2 lbs ground beef 1 big can of pinto beans 3 small cans of black beans 3 cans diced tomato
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blog-post nic // til
Sending SMS with SMTP
I'm cooking something up over here that will include SMS message notifications as a feature and I've been doing some reading on different providers...
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til nic // git
Docker Compose Build From Git Repo
You can reference a git repo in compose's "build" argument for a service as of [this PR](https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/2430)
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til nic // python
Zsh alias for uv scripts
It's apparently advantageous for uv to have a specific shebang set that `uv init` doesn't add, no problem, we can have a zsh alias for it Then if you
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thoughts {'username': 'Nic', 'full_name': 'Nicholas Payne', 'email': '[email protected]', 'disabled': False} // uv
💭 uv script management
Dang Waylon! Love these few lines... uv is great, been using it for environment and project requirements management bu
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blog-post nic // adhd
Reflection - AI Work and ADHD
Reflection It's time to be more devoted to my work... AI has been a cool technology to watch and experience but one thing I'm allowing it to do to me
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til nic // gaming
Pair AceGamer Wireless PS4 Controller With PC
I bought a 20ドル PS4 knock-off controller recently as my PS4 controllers are 12 years old (to me!) and I bought them used before that... the instructions for a 2ドル
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blog-post nic // homelab
Proxy Pull Docker Images From Self-Hosted Container Registry Through Self-Hosted Repoflow
This post is a short write-up of an issue I had while exploring [Reploflow](https://repoflow.io) - a super solid artifactory-esq replacement for the homelab (an
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blog-post nic // sermons
AudioMass
I edit our church's recorded sermons every week and upload them to our website. It's very simple, and the editing is just cutting the audio file down
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blog-post nic // neovim
A Simple Lua Plugin To Find My Drafts
I used windsurf to write [[daily-notes-neovim-plugin]] for navigating my daily notes in neovim. For a while now I've wanted a way to see my blog drafts...
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til nic // kanboard
Migrate Github Issues to Kanboard
I am working on shifting everything, or as much as I reasonably can, related to dev for myself to on-prem, including git and CI/CD. So for Quadtask I had a bunc
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blog-post nic // litestream
Using Litestream to Restore My Database for Easy Development
Litestream see [[using-litestream-to-backup-quadtasks-sqlite-db]] for how I setup litestream replication for [[quadtask]] I have the entrypoint to my app contai
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blog-post nic // litestream
Using Litestream to Backup QuadTask's SQLite DB
Litestream This post will be a walkthrough of installing [[litestream]] in a docker container that runs my FastAPI app in order to replicate the sqlite db in th
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blog-post nic // litestream
Setup Remote MinIO S3 Backend Target for Litestream
Intro I am starting to think through some patterns for replicating sqlite databases, exploring them, standardizing on schemas/models I use across projects, etc.
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blog-post nic // docker
Docker Volume Mounts Link to an Inode
docker bind mounts are specified as filepaths - this is very intuitive. I want /path/to/directory on my host to be shared with /another/path/foo in a container.
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blog-post nic // git
You suck at git - but it's honestly fine
Git is for everyone I just started listening to [localfirst.fm podcast](https://www.localfirst.fm/) podcast and would recommend it after 2 episodes. In the firs
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til nic // nextcloud
Add yourself to www-data to view your Nextcloud data on the filesystem
I am working on using [[gotify-cli-for-notifying-me-of-nextcloud-uploads]] and I'll start by running the gotify cli as my user so I'll need to be able
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blog-post nic // homelab
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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blog-post nic // nextcloud
gotify cli for notifying me of nextcloud uploads
The Ask I was looking for a way to get notified from nextcloud when files were uploaded to a certain directory. This is because the upload is very spotty due to
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blog-post nic // python
Python editable installs and nested scripts
Intro I have been working towards a standard structure for all my python projects - and I mean much more than just `uv init` or something along those lines. But
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til nic // lua
Lua type hinting - undefined global
I have tons of linting errors in my nvim config, partly because I use Lazyvim plus a set of poorly written customizations that have traveled with me for a while
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blog-post nic // homelab
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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blog-post nic // homelab
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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blog-post nic // postiz
Testing a Postiz Change Locally (IT WORKS!)
Setup I am working on a pipeline at home to integrate my blog with social media a little more. One of the things I want to do is automatically post [[my-thought
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thoughts {'username': 'Nic', 'full_name': 'Nicholas Payne', 'email': '[email protected]', 'disabled': False} // uv
💭 Build backend | uv
uv build backend ready for production! Dang... I need to visit my hatch builds, I love hatch's simplicity specifically w
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blog-post nic // mcp
MCPHub with Windsurf
I came across [mcphub](https://github.com/samanhappy/mcphub) today and got the motivation to try it out... I use AI tools like Windsurf and Roo across multiple
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til nic // nostr
Nostr hex key
you can hexify your [[nostr]] key when you need to sometimes which I needed to for [[postiz]] (link with a thought I'm sure I have on postiz)
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blog-post nic // nostr
Nostr
???+ note "How to start..." [The nostr docs](https://nostr.com/) Nostr is a very intriguing protocol for communication that lends itself to a decentrl
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blog-post nic // homelab
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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thoughts {'username': 'Nic', 'full_name': 'Nicholas Payne', 'email': '[email protected]', 'disabled': False} // python
💭 Switching pip to uv in a Dockerized Flask / Django App — Nick ...
It's nice to see uv gaining popularity in so many places - and replacing vanilla pip with uv in containerized environmen
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blog-post nic // homelab
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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blog-post nic // homelab
temporal
[Temporal](https://temporal.io/) is a workflow orchestrator that I'm interested in
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blog-post nic // homelab
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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blog-post nic // homelab
Quit issueing 200s for 500s
Stop this nonsense 
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blog-post nic // homelab
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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thoughts {'username': 'Nic', 'full_name': 'Nicholas Payne', 'email': '[email protected]', 'disabled': False} // k8s
💭 matduggan.com/what-would-a-kubernetes-2-0-look-like/
This article was longer than I had time to really consume but a heading caught my eye that I wanted to agree with - the
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thoughts {'username': 'Nic', 'full_name': 'Nicholas Payne', 'email': '[email protected]', 'disabled': False} // homelab
💭 pypeaday/whose-turn-is-it: Simple uv webapp to determine order...
We pray together as a family every night, but every single flipping night my daughter's fight about the order we go in..
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thoughts {'username': 'Nic', 'full_name': 'Nicholas Payne', 'email': '[email protected]', 'disabled': False} // layoffs
💭 Microsoft planning thousands of job cuts aimed at salespeople,...
more cuts for the sake of AI investment... this is getting out of hand. I'm thankful that I don't work in a field that w
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blog-post nic // homelab
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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thoughts {'username': 'Nic', 'full_name': 'Nicholas Payne', 'email': '[email protected]', 'disabled': False} // just
💭 neverjust
Your "just" comes from seeing only the surface of the problem. Like an iceberg, what's visible is just a fraction This
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til nic // homelab
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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blog-post nic // homelab
Stable Diffusion QR Codes for Josh
After my blunder  (fjords of Fi
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thoughts {'username': 'Nic', 'full_name': 'Nicholas Payne', 'email': '[email protected]', 'disabled': False} // snowflake
💭 Snowflake Status - Certificate Authority Update for AWS Regions
A recent Snowflake issue borked some old pipelines - thankfully it appears to be a simple fix. Just goes to show you tha
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blog-post nic // homelab
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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blog-post nic // homelab
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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blog-post nic // homelab
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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blog-post nic // homelab
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
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blog-post nic // homelab
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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thoughts {'username': 'Nic', 'full_name': 'Nicholas Payne', 'email': '[email protected]', 'disabled': False} // proton
💭 "We would be less confidential than Google" – Proton threatens...
I've been a proton user for several years now, and pay a decently hefty subscription fee for some of their services that
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til nic // homelab
Example For Andrew
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til nic // homelab
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
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blog-post nic // homelab
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
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blog-post nic // homelab
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
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blog-post nic // homelab
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
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blog-post nic // tech
Windows Update Broke Wifi
Windows Update Behind My Back After an unapproved windows update on a machine I help administer for my church, the wifi became super finnicky. I had installed a
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blog-post nic // tech
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
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til nic // infrastructure
Aurora U-Blue ZRAM Config
I keep running out of space with my swap getting maxxed out... I don't know why but U-Blue uses Zram already and apparently I can easily override the defau
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til nic // tech
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
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til nic // python
Pandas.DataFrame info always answers and is sometimes right
TIL Today I learned that the `.info()` of a `pandas.DataFrame` will always give you an answer, but it is wildly difficult to know how accurate it is, because it
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til nic // homelab
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
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blog-post nic // python
My MCP Configuration
My MCP The Tools Docker RAGDocs Sequential Thinking Git Not Tried Yet https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/sqlite The Config
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blog-post nic // linux
I was wrecked by a weird combo of>> and -e
TL;DR If state matters then check it in the beginning or handle it on a failure... Let me explain I ran into some trouble recently _almost_ losing some encrypte
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til nic // infrastructure
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
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til nic // zfs
SMB with ZFS on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install -y samba \\ then set sharesmb=on \\ chown the user \\ smbpasswd <user> -a \\ then mount with user/password from other machine
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blog-post nic // infrastructure
Recovering from zpool corruption when you're short a drive
can only mount tank RO so can't rename also can't detach which is what I'd want Could import pool witn -N to not mount any datasets detach and at
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blog-post nic // nostr
The Importance of Nostr According to ChatGPT
Disclaimer This was written by ChatGPT with zero oversight from me. There are a few things that are not 100% accurate, but the main idea is there... I am hoping
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til nic // infrastructure
Deployments are not StatefulSets
I was debugging some ArgoCD stuff earlier today and I love using k9s to explore my k8s resources. The TLDR is that I put some bad env vars in the `global` value
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til nic // python
docker context (and an issue to question your sanity)
docker contexts are great, would recommend putting them in your prompt though (via starship or something else)... here's why I like to manage my containers
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til nic // python
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
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til nic // infrastructure
statically.io to help me out
[statically.io](https://statically.io) offers a CDN that I'm going to try to lean into for images in my blog. My hope is that the builds get and stay fast,
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til nic // linux
D and uninterruptable sleep
Htop I recently have been having significant home server issues, and that's not the point of this - today I learned what `D` state is when looking at htop.
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til nic // tech
Stylus for custom webpage themes
the Logos web app is DISGUSTINGY bright/white - enough to actually ruin your morning... Thankfully there's an extension called [stylus](https://addons.mozi
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til nic // homelab
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
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til nic // infrastructure
OPNSense Bootstrap Recovery
enabling DHCP WAN port (`dhclient <iface>`)- running the bootstrap script - `sh /usr/local/sbin/opnsense-bootstrap`
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til nic // linux
Docker copy and chown
COPY --chown=myuser:mygroup source-file target-file
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til nic // homelab
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/
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blog-post nic // python
Switching from AltaCV to RenderCV for my Resume
I was using a fun LaTex-based project for managing my resume called [AltaCV](https://github.com/liantze/AltaCV). I loved the customization and was familiar with
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blog-post nic // homelab
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
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til nic // homelab
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
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til nic // cli
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
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blog-post nic // homelab
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
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til nic // homelab
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
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til nic // homelab
Simple Port Forwarding OPNSense
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=8783.0
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til nic // homelab
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)
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til nic // zfs
lsof to find what's using your filesystem
lsof | grep /tank/nas shows me what is using my nas at any time!
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til nic // zfs
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
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til nic // linux
Convert Word Doc to PDF with Headless Libreoffice
I've been using paperless-ngx to manage all my documents, but every once in a while I'll get a `.docx` file to deal with... Turns out Libreoffice has
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blog-post nic // homelab
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
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til nic // cli
FFMPEG 10-bit videos to 8-bit
`ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -map 0 -c:v libx264 -vf format=yuv420p -c:a copy output.mp4`
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til nic // linux
i3-Like keyboard mapping in Pop_OS
I was introduced to tiling window managers through i3, which I use heavily on one of my machines. I have switched to Pop_OS! at home though, which has a tiling
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til nic // linux
Use non-standard named ssh keys with github
I was getting `(publickey denied)` when trying to push to GH using ssh. When I tested the connection I saw that a bunch of keys in ``~/.ssh/ were being attempte
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til nic // homelab
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
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blog-post nic // python
Modal Labs
Playing around with Modal Labs One of the first things I tried was a regular cron job... This can get deployed with `modal deploy --name <app name> <pa
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blog-post nic // homelab
Nextcloud Docker Upgrade Error
https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/nextcloud-docker-upgrade-error
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til nic // linux
Adding docker daemon.json broke docker
in /lib/systemd/system/docker.service there is an ExecStart command that got placed there when I setup Docker with Ansible - it threw the -H flag which told the
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til nic // vim
suda.vim for sudo access to files
I regularly need to edit system config files - take /etc/sanoid/sanoid.conf as an example... I'll want to play with something but if I don't start Neo
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blog-post nic // zfs
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
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til nic // homelab
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
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til nic // python
Call basicConfig to get Python log messages in iPython
Logging instead of printing I am trying to adopt `logger.debug` instead of `print` but ran into a confusing thing in ipython during Advent of Code... I riddled
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til nic // vim
New lines in Markdown tables
I wanted to break down some long lines in a Markdown table cell to make it look nicer on my blog but \n didn't do anything for me... turns out <br/>
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Description of my proposed vimconf 2022 talk
Switching to Vim opened a whole new world to me for interacting with a computer and for getting things done. Before I adopted Vim I used GUIs for everything bec
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til nic // linux
Make a series of directories fast!
mkdir s{1..10} will make directories s1, s2, ... s10 in one command!
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til nic // vim
Case-insensitive search in Vim
/mysearch\c will match mysearch, MYSEARCH, mYSeArCh...
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til nic // zfs
Limit zfs list to avoid docker vomit
zfs list has a flag -r, but if you use zfs driver for docker then you'll get flooded with every docker volume in the world. zfs list -r -d N will limit the
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til nic // homelab
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
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til nic // homelab
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
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til nic // homelab
My PassMark Scores
!!! note "Babyblue v2" !!! note "Venus " !!! note "Hogwarts" !!! note "Server 2 ... Change the name" !!! note "Serv
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til nic // linux
Suddenly SSH requires a password
ssh -v -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa nic@hogwarts THen we can look at print outs cat /var/log/auth.log also showed me that I had too wide permissions on files in ~/.ssh -&g
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til nic // zfs
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
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til nic // linux
Check Your BIOS Version On Ubuntu
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version
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til nic // cli
Destroying Tmux sessions with fzf
I use Tmux and Vim for most of my workflow, but I end up with a lot of dangling tmux sessions that dont' really need to persist... but killing them one at
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til nic // homelab
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!
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til nic // cli
Check your SMART status with smartctl
https://www.simplified.guide/linux/disk-health-check Install For ubuntu/debian based distros (which is what I primarly use presently) `sudo apt update -y &&
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blog-post nic // python
Benchmark your disks with fio
Intro I use ZFS at home in my homelab for basically all of my storage... Docker uses ZFS backend, all my VMs have their `.qcow2` images in their own zfs dataset
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til nic // python
Playing with mdformat
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til nic // homelab
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
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til nic // linux
Mounting exFAT USB in Linux
Steps `sudo fdisk -l` then look for the device and partition get the Type column mount Example
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til nic // homelab
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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til nic // homelab
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
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blog-post nic // homelab
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,
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blog-post nic // homelab
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
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til nic // linux
cheat on your man
`man` can be a pain to read... and there's lots of alternatives out there and one I've just started playing with is [cheat](https://github.com/cheat/c
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til nic // python
Add colored indicators to your dataframes html representation
[Mike Driscoll](https://twitter.com/driscollis) recently tweeted about making colored out with pandas DataFrames and I just had to try it for myself Use Case Fi
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til nic // homelab
Samba on Ubuntu 22 needs "inherit permissions" set
see samba config on hogwarts
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til nic // linux
Filtering emails with core utils
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til nic // homelab
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
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til nic // homelab
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
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til nic // homelab
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
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til nic // homelab
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
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til nic // homelab
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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til nic // homelab
Configure bridge network on Ubuntu 22.04 with Netplan
See 02-....yaml in ansible-nas
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til nic // homelab
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
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til nic // python
Subset a list based on values in another list with itertools.compress
I have list [True, False, False, True] and another list [1, 2, 3, 4] and a use case where I want to filter list 2 based on list 1 to remove values that line up
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til nic // zfs
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
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til nic // homelab
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.
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til nic // linux
Deleting files on remote storage from Ubuntu might not do what you think
From my daily driver Ubuntu machine I often open nautilus, dolphin, etc. and delete a file here or there on my NAS... turns out Ubuntu sends thse file to `.Tras
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blog-post nic // homelab
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.
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til nic // vim
Filepath Completion in Neovim
I've had `Plug 'hrsh7th/cmp-path'` in my plugins for ever but didn't notice until recently that I wasn't getting any filepath completio
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til nic // vim
Plug Snapshot!
:PlugSnapshot, :w ~/dotfiles/nvim/snapshot.vim... keep your config safe with git!
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til nic // python
Forms with FastAPI and Jinja
I just started using FastAPI for a home project and needed to pass back a dynamic number of values from a form rendered with jinja... Dynamic Values The jinja t
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blog-post nic // python
Dynamic-Form-Values-With-Jinja-And-Fastapi
I'm currently working on a self-hostable wish list app using FastAPI so we can finally drop Amazon forever. (The lists funcionality has been super handy fo
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til nic // tech
Plug-Snapshot-To-Save-Your-Life
If you use vim-plug for managing your vim plugins, do yourself a favor and snapshot your plugins before upgrading! `:PlugSnapshot` creates a vim.snapshot file
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til nic // tech
Python-Eval
TODO
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til nic // python
Dataframe-To-Markdown
Pandas `pandas.DataFrame`s are pretty sweet data structures in Python. I do a lot of work with tabular data and one thing I have incorporated into some of that
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til nic // python
Dataframe-To-Styled-Html
I wrote up a little on exporting DataFrames to markdown and html [here](/dataframe-to-markdown) But I've been playing with a web app for with lists and whi
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blog-post nic // python
Wish-List-With-Fastapi
Amazon has crossed the line with me just one too many times now so we are looking to drop them like every other Big Tech provider.... However, one key feature o
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til nic // git
Git-Bisect
I try to commit a lot, and I also try to write useful tests appropriate for the scope of work I'm focusing on, but sometimes I drop the ball... Whether by
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til nic // python
Pandas-String-Contains
TL;DR `pandas.Series.str.contains` accepts regular expressions and this is turned on by __default__! Use case We often need to filter pandas DataFrames based on
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blog-post nic // blog
Tdarr
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til nic // python
Unpack-Anywhere-With-Star
Unpacking iterables in python with `*` is a pretty handy trick for writing code that is just a tiny bit more pythonic than not. But [@Ned Batchelder](https://tw
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til nic // til
Htop
`htop` is a common command line tool for seeing interactive output of your system resource utilization, running processes, etc. I've always been super conf
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blog-post nic // til
Pipx
`pipx` is a tool I've been using to solve a few problems of mine... pinning formatting tools like `black`, `flake8`, `isort`, etc. to the same version for
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til nic // til
Fx-Json
[fx](https://github.com/antonmedv/fx) is an interactaive JSON viewer for the terminal. It's a simple tool built with Charmcli's Bubble Tea. Installati
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blog-post nic // homelab
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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til nic // til
Typeddict
Type hinting has helped me write code almost as much, if not more, than unit testing. One thing I love is that with complete type hinting you get a lot more out
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blog-post nic // blog
Home-Server-Refactor
My current homelab setup is not great but it works... Proxmox on PowerEdge R610 I boot off an SD card and have 1 SSD and 5 HDDs configured as a JBOD array using
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blog-post nic // python
And-vs-&
I often struggle to remember the correct way to do `and` type comparisons when working in pandas. I remember learning long long ago that `and` and `&` are d
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til nic // linux
File-Length
I have a specific need for counting the number of lines in a file quickly. At work we use S3 for data storage during our Kedro pipeline development, and in the
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blog-post nic // python
Ipython-Prompt
I have a [post on starship](/starship) where I have some notes on how I use starship to make my zsh experience great with a sweet terminal prompt. Now... I spen
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til nic // vim
Vim-Spell-Check
__Did you know you can spell check in Vim?!__ What is this magic??? `set: spell spelllang=en_us` Custom words? Sometimes there's things that are words to y
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blog-post nic // linux
Polybar-01
[polybar](https://github.com/polybar/polybar) is an awesome and super customizable status bar for your desktop environment. I use it with i3-gaps on Ubuntu for
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til nic // python
Deques
I am working on a project to create a small system monitoring dashboard using the python `psutil` library. The repo is [here](https://github.com/nicpayne713/not
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blog-post nic // python
Plotly-And-Streamlit
Streamlit I use `streamlit` for any EDA I ever have to do at work. It's super easy to spin up a small dashboard to filter and view dataframes in, live, wit
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blog-post nic // linux
Starship
If you spend time in the terminal then you'll want it to look somewhat pleasing to the eye. I used to ssh into servers with no customization, use `vi` to
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blog-post nic // python
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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til nic // python
Skimpy
EDA I work with data a lot, but the nature of my job isn't to dive super deep into a small amount of datasets, I'm often jumping between several proje
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blog-post nic // homelab
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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til nic // python
Pyclean
I like to keep my workspace clean and one thing that I don't personally love looking at is the `__pycache__` directory that pops up after running some code
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til nic // python
Psutil-01
[Mike Driscoll](https://twitter.com/driscollis) has been posting some awesome posts about `psutil` lately. I'm interested in making my own system monitorin
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til nic // python
Mu
If you work with a template for several projects then you might sometimes need to do the same action across all repos. A good example of this is updating a pack
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blog-post nic // homelab
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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blog-post nic // git
Git-Worktrees-01
Git Hopefully if you write code you are using git, if not go learn the basics of `commit`, `pull`, `push`, and `pull request`/`merge request` like... right now.
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til nic // python
Abstract-Base-Class
ABCMeta I don't do a lot of OOP currently, but I have been on a few heavy OOP projects and this `ABCMeta` and `abstractmethod` from `abc` would've bee
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til nic // python
Python-F-String-Align
I am personally trying to use `logger` instead of `print` in all of my code, however I learned from [@Python-Hub] that you can align printouts using `print` wi
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til nic // python
Python-Builtin-Calendar
Being lazy I almost exclusively use Python for my job and have been eye-balls deep in it for almost 5 years but I really lack in-depth knowledge of builtins. I
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til nic // python
Dataframe-Memory-Usage
I have often wanted to dive into memory usage for pandas DataFrames when it comes to cloud deployment. If I have a python process running on a server at home I
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til nic // homelab
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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til nic // homelab
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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til nic // linux
Tree
I wanted a quick way to generate an `index.html` for a directory of html files that grows by 1 or 2 files a week. I don't know any html (the files are expo
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blog-post nic // homelab
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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til nic // python
Pandas-Select-Dtypes
On my team we often have to change data types of columns in a `pandas.DataFrame` for a variety of reasons. The main one is it tends to be an artifact of EDA whe
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blog-post nic // tech
Tiddly-Wiki
[Tiddly Wiki](https://tiddlywiki.com/) is a great note taking utility for organizing non-linear notes. I used it to replace my OneNote workflow and my only comp
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til nic // bash
Stow-Target
Check out [stow](/stow) for a brief introduction to `stow` What if I want to stow a package somewhere else? Boom, that's where `-t` comes in... Maybe I don
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til nic // git
Git ammend to a commit
After carefully staging only lines related to a specific change and comitting I suddenly realized I missed one... darn, what do I do? Old me would have soft res
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til nic // bash
Stow
Stow is a great tool for managing dotfiles. My usage looks like cloning my dotfiles to my home directory, setting some environment variables via a script, then
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til nic // vim
Vim-Auto-Space
I ran into an issue where I had some copy-pasta markdown tables in a docstring but the generator I used to make the table gave me tabs instead of spaces in odd
#vim #tech #til