Chris Bergerons Tech Blog

I run a Hashistack on my homelab and I’ve had a startup issue with Consul on one of my Raspberry Pis.

In this post I’m demonstrating how you could use Hashicorp’s Vault TOTP generator and an authenticator to connect to a dynamic ssh port.

The crux of this article centers around personal branding in the field of tech.

I was searching github for some uptime monitoring apps when I stumbled across a github actions based uptime and status page.

While browsing my local thrift store, I stumbled upon a little gadget that I decided to repurpose: It was only $6 USD, so I thought it would be a fun project.

If you’re a heavy command line (cli) user in Macos, Linux or WSL, you may it convenient to easily start or stop your robot from it’s cleaning cycle.

I’ve been exploring Thunderbolt quite a bit lately.

In this post I’m demonstrating how to create a high-speed macos volume using quantity 2 Thunderbolt ports and NVMe enclosures.

In this post I discuss how you can upgrade a NAS Server by adding Thunderbolt 3 for lightning fast connectivity at 20 or 40Gbps.

It’s not just you.

Saturn.

I’ve been playing around with OpenGAN, TensorFlow, torch and a few other goodies lately.

At home I run a lot of gadgets.

I created a new logo and icon of my initials for my personal brand tonight:

I wanted a quick, lightweight way to view rocket launches from Florida’s Space Coast - Kennedy Space Center but everything I found online was bloated.

A few years back I built a neat project I found online.

NFTs have recently piqued my curiosity.

This guide will walk you through installing and configuring nginx, PHP and Mysql optimized for MacOS Big Sur on Apple Silicon - M1 Arm processors.

I was working on my latest project - Debris Art when NFT Blockchain Digital Ownership hit the news.

The recent surge in crypto prices brought my old Bitcoin stash back to mind.

Watch local broadcast TV on Plex without an antenna.

If you’re having trouble with Hexo not generating files, check for broken symbolic links in the source directory tree: 1 find ./ -type l -exec test !

There are several existing resources that document strategies for migrating infrastructure to code.

This is a Magic Mirror Module that displays the Next Rocket Launch from Earth.

While visiting with family, I came across an old DirecTV remote that wasn’t working entirely.

I recently purchased an Mcombo 7040 Lift Chair for my elderly grandfather.

Cloudinary is an amazing image hosting service that offers both a highly functional free tier in addition to a paid enterprise grade image hosting and transformation service.

Grafana is a great tool for visualizing data.

Updated for 2021 !!!

Are you looking for a calendar that lets you know what days of the week are cheapest to shop?

Tonight I was introduced to a Deluge exporter for Prometheus so I figured I’d whip up a quick dashboard for visualizing the metrics.

This is a Bitbar plugin that I wrote that shows you what’s currently playing on your Plex Media server.

If you run a pihole the odds are good that you’ve needed to disable it from time to time.

Grafana is a really great tool for visualizing data.

I made a Grafana Dashboard for my Plex system at home.

As part of my dashboard project (link coming soon) I was looking for a lightweight self hosted monitoring solution for my home network services.

Using Grafana with pfSense Update: 2018/09/13 pfSense has a plugin for telegraf which can be installed from the gui.

I wrote a simple plugin for NZBGet that inserts download history into a MySQL database.

I couldn’t find any quick references about accessing the Pihole API so I created this page.

I wrote a simple plugin for NZBGet that inserts download history into an ElasticSearch cluster (or node).

Ansible is a great tool for configuration management but because of the way it’s designed a common complaint is that it’s not as fast as other tools like Salt, Chef or Puppet.

Using pfsense for WAN Redundancy with Cellular LTE/4G I work from home a lot and I need reliable internet connectivity to workplace.

This is a quick tutorial about setting up a simple shell script that runs periodically to update a DNS record on the internet with the IP address of your network.

I have a Dell R710 rev.

I wrote a very simple little playbook for updating my local DNS records for my piholes.

Pihole + Grafana + InfluxDB Dashboard I wanted to add the metrics from my ad-blocker, the great Pihole to my executive dashboard.

This is a list of how US Representatives voted on Net Neutrality in 2018: Credit to reddit user truefalseequivalence Senate Vote for Net Neutrality