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In a previous article I got local DNS up and running so that I could connect to all of my self hosted services via their names instead of their IP address and port numbers.

I have 6 OpenBSD machines that I use for self hosting various services: nuc - My main homeserver, hosts general stuff that I use at home. bluebox - My home router, what connects me to the internet. www - A VPS that hosts this website. smtp - A VPS that ho…

In the last article in this series, I got caddy up and running and told it about all the services I wanted it to know about.

The encoding finally finished!

I used to have a problem buying DVDs.

The first step on my homelab improvement journey is setting up a reverse proxy.

Introduction # My home network is a bit of a mess.

Introduction # This is the penultimate post in this series.

I’m finally getting around to trying OpenClaw again on slightly beefier hardware than the Pi 3 I used previously.

This post is another side quest in the “You Don’t Need a Mac Mini to run OpenClaw” series.

In my first post of this series I installed OpenClaw on a Raspberry Pi 3b+.

Introduction # In this series, I’ll explore running OpenClaw on things that aren’t a Mac Mini, as well as exploring some alternatives to OpenClaw.

I wanted to play around with OpenClaw, but didn’t want to install it directly on my computer.

I’ve been hearing a lot about LoRaWAN and Meshtastic over the past few years.

Immich is a really nice photo management application that you can host yourself.

At some point around when browsers started getting tabs, I stopped using bookmarks.

Lobste.rs is doing a blog carnival, and the topic is “What have you made for yourself?

One of my xbox controllers always drifts.

In Québec we have a fine portal for scheduling appointments for routine medical work.

Date # 2025-08-20 LLM # ChatGPT 4o Problem # I’m having difficulty connecting to a PostgreSQL instance deployed by the Percona Operator for PostgreSQL in a k8s cluster.

LLM # ChatGPT o4 Problem # I needed to route some traffic out my firewall via my wireguard VPN in order to reach my minecraft server that’s hosted on exaroton.

Update - I found where this is mentioned in the OpenBSD docs, it’s in the package readme for PHP!

Since there’s no easy way to share conversations from deepseek, I asked it to dump a markdown formatted transcript so that I could reproduce it here.

Date # December 3, 2022 LLM # ChatGPT GPT-3.5 Problem # I wanted to access homeassistant data in grafana for vizualizations.

I’ve been using LLMs since the hype started, and overall I find them pretty useful for a lot of things, but when I run into a problem that I don’t already know how to solve, they have a tendency to lead me astray.

A somewhat up to date list of the open source software I use regularly.

This is the first post in a new category “Debug Logs.”

me # I’m a computer nerd, martial artist, and dad who likes reading, growing stuff, and playing with his kids.

I’ve been hosting minecraft servers for my kids since around 2019.

Introduction # I have a small problem with crowd funding, I like it too much.

Once upon a time, I was playing with a hard drive magnet that slipped out of my hand and landed on my laptop, directly above where the spinny hard drive was housed.

I’ve been playing with ansible off and on for several years now, usually in fits and starts.

I’ve been wanting to grab a PINEBOOK Pro since I first heard about it a few years ago.

I’m an open source developer.

As part of my move away from cloud based IoT devices I’ve been looking for a zigbee switch I could use to automatically turn the lights in my duck house on and off.

What do I need this for?

I’ve been playing with home automation for a few years now and wanted to stop relying on 3rd party cloud software for the devices I run at home.

I’ve been a gmail user since it first came out, and I used to be a fan of google, but now I find myself more and more concerned with their data gathering practices.

I had an interesting problem at work the other day.

Once upon a time, if you wanted to connect to the internet (or even to your local network) you needed to edit a bunch of files, ask your system or network administrator for an IP address, and hope you didn’t mess up your computer too badly since you didn’t

If you do code review, you likely come across the same issues over and over again.

DNS is basically the address book of the internet.

I had the pleasure to work with Cathy Axais when I was a team-lead at Seedbox.

Everyone has some idea of what their ideal job would look like.

I ran into a gap in my understanding of git and merge commits yesterday.

Someone at work recently pointed me towards PlantUML, a really neat tool that takes a simple textual description like this: me -> you: Say "Hello" you ->me: Say "Hi" back me -> you: Ask "Do you like cookies?"

I’ve been “on the net” since 1997.

I briefly mentioned arcanist in a previous article.

Update - After calling Nest support, they replaced my unit for me, no charge.

I’ve started implementing code review before commit/push on my team.