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Rants and Musings of a Sysadmin

APCUPSD, InfluxDB and Home Assistant

A recent change to the layout of my house (aka I moved the office to a different room) got me redoing much of my homelab. It also got me thinking, as I unplugged the Nth server from the UPS, that I have what some might consider 'too many' servers.

That, in turn, got me thinking about things like power usage, the gobs of heat these things generate, and the cost of it all running near 24/7. At least from the standpoint of electricity costs.

Learning about the Matrix

I've been trying to get out into more Open Source communities of late. A good number of them are using Matrix as the chat platform for interacting with the community. I used to have a Matrix account, but it is lost to the sands of time. So a couple days ago I went to create a new one, but sadly the username I wanted was taken. What was I to do!?

Oh, and this is not really a how-to guide and there is a decent amount of info left out of this, so don't expect to go from 0 to Matrix using this blog post.

Squidblog Features: Listing Posts

Found some more time to play around with this project and add a new feature. Well...I added it a little bit ago but I'm just now blaggin' about it.

You can now list posts! Complete with some flags to list more details about the posts 🎉

Squidblog Features: Authors

I first started writing this tool with only myself as the target user, so there had been some hard-coded quinns in the codebase to save time. I've since started working towards making it a tool that is targeted at anyone who wants to use it.

Writing a CLI to Help me Blog More

I'm not a big fan of using a GUI/WebUI for creating or editing markdown files...or really any plain-text file for that matter. I live in the Terminal most days and I want to limit the amount of time I have to spend context switching. So, in an effort to increase my blog output AND to scratch an itch, I'm developing a simple program that I hope will help me blog just a bit more.

Migrated to MkDocs

So I took the plunge after putting it off for...years. Not sure what got me motivated to do this but I'm off of Ghost now.

I started using Ghost on November 19th of 2013, and here we are 9 years and 364 days later.