Because alliteration. Moving on. If you’re interacting with APIs of any kind regularly, you probably have the credentials saved somewhere. Maybe you’re already using a solution to securely store these, in which case congratulations, you’re better than most. I, for one, was not. I assuaged my guilt with the knowledge that my Mac’s disk encryption […]
Refrigerator Monitoring for Fun and Profit
I’m not sure if this is common, but it should be – a second fridge. While ours ostensibly began its life for holding cakes (my wife is a home baker), it’s morphed into extra food, beer, and the like. It lives in our garage, which isn’t an ideal space for a fridge with respect to […]
Terraform 0.11.x –> 0.12.x
Anyone in the SRE/DevOps world is likely at least aware of Terraform, if not actively using it. While Pulumi’s ability to write IaC in Python seems lovely to me, my company uses Terraform, so HCL it is. If you aren’t familiar, I’ll give a brief overview. Terraform is an IaC (see link above) tool. You […]
Self-hosting a forum with Discourse
What do you do if you want a private social media experience for you and friends or family? Facebook has Groups, and lesser-known apps like Band exist that can also fill that niche, but you’re still handing over all your content to a 3rd party. For some, that’s untenable, and completely understandable. Furthermore, I wouldn’t […]
Windows Upgrades Gone Wild
I use Windows at home as a gaming platform. I’ve used a Mac laptop (a 2013 Air I purchased in, if I recall, 2016, and now from my job, a Pro) for everything else since I got it, but it’s still difficult to beat Windows for gaming. And let’s be honest, Windows 7 was pretty […]
Why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam?!
OK, this is actually about Docker and disk space, but close enough. While trying to download ultra high definition Linux ISOs, I encountered an error from Transmission, running in Docker: “No space left on device.” Odd, considering I was pretty sure I had a few TB free. Let’s see if the logs have anything useful […]
Home Networking Is A Dumpster Fire
Not exactly SRE/DevOps, but I need to write something, so here we are. Also, while I receive no kickbacks from anyone, and don’t have sponsored links, I am definitely being a cheerleader for Ubiquiti here. It’s not exactly a secret that consumer networking equipment is hot garbage. Back in the day of the WRT54G, it […]
I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore, or how to move to EC2
This is not a blog entry on how to move Lightsail content to EC2, as those guides already exist in AWS’ fantastic documentation. This is about my trials and tribulations in getting it up and running, and how I fixed a niggling problem I’ve had since the beginning of this blog (and the other sites […]
XML-RPC, or how to go off on wild goose chases
XML-RPC, in case you aren’t living in the early 2000s, is a remote procedural call (get it?) that encodes its HTTP returns in XML. It has been largely replaced with RESTful APIs, but it still exists. The two places I’m personally aware of are rtorrent, and WordPress. The former I lived with, mainly because nothing […]
I can has job!
Well, it happened. I’m not sure what weighting the various components held (I’ve gathered that the amount of things I dove into as personal projects was the dominant factor), but however it played out, it worked. I’m now (actually, for about a month now – I didn’t want to jinx it) an Associate Site Reliability […]