Shane Dowling

I used to write periodic homelab update posts but they’d go stale almost immediately.

Email to Remarkable A Python tool that monitors an email mailbox for PDF attachments and automatically uploads them to your reMarkable cloud storage.

So, it’s been a while and I have made some progress worth sharing!

Aims Today’s goal was to deploy Gitea on my K3s cluster, ensuring that: It used persistent storage via my NAS.

Aims The goal for today was to get my first piece of software running on the cluster, ensuring that: It leveraged the NAS for storage.

After going back and forth multiple times and making plenty of mistakes, I finally managed to set up a new K3s control plane and node.

Setting Up Storage for the Kubernetes Cluster The first step in setting up my homelab Kubernetes cluster is ensuring some reliable data storage.

Why I’m Migrating My Self-Hosted Services I’ve decided to migrate all my existing self-hosted services—and add a few new ones—to a Kubernetes (K8s) cluster that I’m going to build.

Exciting news – the first episode of our podcast, the Hybrid Cloud Show, is finally here, part of the awesome Late Night Linux podcast family!

Hello!

Kindle Scribe to Mastodon Over the holidays, I put together a fun little project to put out status updates on Mastodon.

For many, MANY years, I’ve been an advocate for the simplicity of dumbphones.

Introduction Imagine a cool device that brings together an LCD screen, Raspberry Pi Zero, and a Blackberry keyboard – that’s the Beepberry!

Introduction NixOS is an innovative and powerful Linux distribution built on top of the Nix package manager.

Nixpkg is a package manager that uses a purely functional approach to package management, isolating packages and ensuring that there are no conflicts between them.

Platform engineering encompasses a broad domain with continually evolving frontiers that require overcoming new challenges to level up the solutions offered to engineers.

What is Nonviolent Communication?

Reviewing your PDP can be a somewhat overwhelming process.

I’ve relatively recently moved into a Platform Engineering position after working in very developer oriented teams for many years.

One of the ways to improve your security and avoid passing around env files is to follow the twelve factor app and start populating your secrets from the environment.