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.
Took some time to add a new feature to my Squidblog CLI. You can now modify
some of the frontmatter of your posts using a new subcommand called modify.
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.
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 
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.
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.
For a while now, I've had my iPhone setup to automatically speak a phrase anytime it detected Carplay being activated. I did it as a reminder to myself and others that safety is important.
I've started getting lazier and lazier when it comes to doing SysAdmin work, but don't misunderstand me here. Â That just means I want to automate myself out of the picture (mostly) and just get alerts if things aren't quite right.
One particular workflow I'd like to automate is patching my servers.
With the increased amount of video conferencing going on, I decided to dust off an old trick to 'spice' things up during the many video calls I am on.
This show-and-tell post is a little different than my last few. Â It didn't start with a 'I wonder if I can do X' but instead a 'UGH! I'm sick of having to disable the ad blocker every time my wife shops online'.