• Nearly There!

    After a few weeks of wrangling, I’ve moved over to almost entirely containerized hosting. After configuring a SWAG instance and learning nginx (and redoing all my subdomains), I only had one thing left in a VM: Discourse. Unfortunately, my repeated attempts to “containerize” Discourse have failed every time. Discourse itself runs its own “compose-like” Docker…

  • End of year updates

    It’s been a doozy of a year end. Regarding the containerization, I’ve moved everything except for Discourse. That remains a bigger beast than I can tame, so I’ll likely leave it as a VM. Additionally, the reverse proxy is still on the same VM. That’s probably the next thing to do. Got “Redeployed” at my…

  • Moving towards containerization of everything

    Today I spent some time trying out a Docker compose version of WordPress. On Unraid there’s a nifty plugin to allow Docker compose, and I quite like it for combining containers that work together. The bulk of tinker time today was spent trying to correctly proxy to the new instance, and at the end of…

  • Setting up two VMs

    Not just two VMs — two *gaming* VMs! It was an adventure! Something I’ve wanted to do for a while now was to leverage the current position of my server. At our new house, I made the decision to put my PC in the basement and run loooong cables up through the floor for my…

  • Self-hosted Rabbit Hole

    Well, I’ve had many adventures lately with the server, and I’ll try to document them as much as I can. Recently I spent some time trying to get my Nextcloud instance back up and running (success!), and then decided to add Mastodon. So now I can type little posts to myself, much like how I…

  • Learned Something Odd Yesterday

    TL;DR- Setting up a flatpak of Steam on Manjaro while using Chrome Remote Desktop installs the flatpak with the CRD “gpu” as the default. I am trying to set up a “Steam Deck”-esque experience for our basement TV as a sort of “arcade” for the kids and myself. I’m using Manjaro as the base, to…

  • Caleb’s Lego Beyblade Tips

    Practice! Balance the weight Make a body type Establish a type: Defense, Attack, and Stamina are a few Build!

  • Rare Ian

    I decided to try to make a real, true “Rare Ian”. I went through old photos we have of each other and picked a nice, non-offensive picture of our boy. Then I tried to turn it into an NFT. This post will be the “description” of this Rare Ian, so I’ll add some info. Ian…

  • Well, hmmm

    So, I was able to upgrade the server. I know, I said I wouldn’t, but a deal came up that made it hard to ignore. So now I have a dual-10 core/20 thread setup in a used server chassis. It’s so roomy and nice! And it lit a fire in me to continue to expand.…

  • No (some) going back

    I’ve just listed my current “arcade PC” on FB Marketplace. It’s the culmination of my COVID passion project: building a semi-portable arcade machine. It started with a birthday gift of “just buy the parts you need and get started”. I bought a lovely bunch of arcade parts (buttons, joysticks, wires, etc.) from MN-based Paradise Arcade…