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June 15, 2024
Building my new business environment started with repurposing an old Dell R620 as a Proxmox host. I quickly noticed, however, that the information that showed up in the system’s iDRAC interface was… wrong.
June 5, 2024
Puppet is extremely useful, but has a number of annoying deficiencies – among them, the way it handles node configuration. External Node Classifiers Are A Thing, but you have to use something like Foreman to store and supply …
February 13, 2024
Every once in a while, I do something stupid. One of the things I don’t want on this blog is data about my location. The problem is that modern cameras – especially cell phone cameras – include your latitude and …
February 12, 2024
I’ve been trying to force myself to learn about zsh since Apple switched the default shell (why, Apple, why?!). One of my biggest annoyances has been the unexpected munging of the Meta-Backspace combination.
January 17, 2024
I’ve been making a number of changes in my local environment (more on that in a few days I think), and I ran across a problem that is, as far as I can tell, fairly undocumented.
April 3, 2023
If you prowl web sites that discuss embedded hardware and operating systems, you will occasionally find people complaining that Linux is not a “real-time operating system”. What do they mean by that? Why is it important? Why do we …
March 20, 2023
My Terraforming efforts continue in my homelab, but Terraform alone isn’t enough. Some of my services require ongoing management, and I want to capture that configuration as code to make it reproducible when needed. Puppet is …
March 13, 2023
Earlier today I was working on a new post – and yes, I’m actually writing new content, and not just about Hugo! But that’s not the point. The point is, I came across an annoyance, and managed to also find a …
March 11, 2023
When we think of a blog, we typically think of the content – but in practice, we also have to worry about the taxonomies. Tags and Categories, oh my! These are hard enough to manage with a live system like WordPress; how do we do …
March 9, 2023
While Hugo is overall quite excellent, it does have a few warts, and one in particular was a problem for this site. Sometimes I write fairly long articles, and they don’t really lend themselves well to being a single huge …
April 11, 2019
I’m currently in the process of modernizing my home lab environment. I decided to go with Terraform, and the first step was getting to where I can spin up a new host in my vsphere cluster just by adding a few lines in terraform. …
January 27, 2019
If you’ve ever set up DNS forwarding on a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and have your own internal authoritative DNS servers, then you may have noticed that it doesn’t quite work right. If you look up the hostname of your router via the …