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  • Fedora VM Networking (libvirt)
    12 July 2024

    I have a home server running the excellent UCore. The hci edition provides all the software and base configuration to run containers and virtual machines with ease.

  • Home server compose yaml
    10 July 2024

    Here is my compose.yaml I run on my raspberry pi 4 that is always available on my network

  • Record Rspec tests in order
    19 October 2023

    Recently I had a flakey test that only failed when certains where run. So wanted to record which tests run in which order. Fist I tried just adding to spec_helper.rb

  • SystemD Path and Service
    28 June 2023

    When you need to do something if a file has changed, you can use a systemd .path file to execute a .service of the same name.

  • SystemD Boot Snapshotting
    27 June 2023

    I run my root file system on btrfs and when I update I take a snapshot before anything is changed. Meaning if something breaks, I can reboot into previous system.

  • Container work-around
    23 June 2023

    I was unable to get systemd (via quadlet) to run the syncthing container via this file HOME/.config/containers/systemd/syncthing-.container

  • quadlet
    1 June 2023

    There are many ways to manage containers. I recently discovered quadlet from redhat and it comes with CoreOS/Podman

  • md raid to zfs
    30 March 2023

    I was very happy with my CoreOS home server, it was stable and pretty much trouble free. .. but then I noticed this which seemed like a great way to get to play with ZFS, without having to mess about with kernel mods.

  • Raid1 and mdadm
    7 February 2023

    I have a home server full of old disks that I use for random storage purposes, the most important of which are 2 disks that make up a raid1 10TB storage area for backups.

  • view component table
    25 January 2023

    I have been trying ViewComponent for the UI in an application I wrote.