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 the same host, so a quick…
Series of posts about my homelab
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latest post 2026-10-25
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SearXNG
I heard about SearXNG on a couple podcasts and saw it trending on GitHub several times before I finally decided to stand it up. I used it transparently when trying out khoj, a self…
Grafana + Gotify for push notifications
It’s easy to configure push notifications through Gotify from Grafana by setting up a generic Alerting Contact Point… The parameters are: HTTP Method: POST URL: http:// /message Au…
💭 audiobookshelf
Here’s my thought on audiobookshelf Audiobookshelf looks like a solid competitor for booksonic. I’ve liked the simple subsonic api driven nature of booksonic but my wife would like…
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 install in the dockerfile (near…
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 internet about the error, a…
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’s cool… The thing I neede…
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 toil and none of the other o…
OPNSense Bootstrap Recovery
enabling DHCP WAN port ()- running the bootstrap script -
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 your OPNSense config to…