I’ve been running this website for about a year now. You’ll notice that in that time, I’ve made fewer than 10 posts… Part of the reason for this, besides my crippling and undiagnosed ADHD, is because of the friction it took to write something. I’m not just talking …

If you’ve followed my recent posts, you’ll know that I’ve been on a learning journey to pick up Ansible for automating my homelab. The goal was to have one master playbook, ‘one playbook to rule them all,’ which would not only handle configuring servers and managing my services running in Docker but …

Earlier this week I tried using Ansible to declaratively define the VMs in my homelab’s Proxmox cluster. My method of attack was to basically ‘lift and shift’ my manual methods into an automation platform.

What do I mean by this? Well, my manual method was to right-click and clone a cloud-init …

I’ve recently been playing with Ansible in my homelab. I love that it’s agent-less, simple and idempotent. You don’t need to install any software on your targets to get started; you just need to be able to SSH into them. If you can SSH into it, you can deploy configs with Ansible. It’s really that …

As a desktop linux user, things break all the time. Got your display configuration working? Well, that broke again. Finally get your microphone to sound normal and not like you’re underwater? Hello kernel update! Make a change to a configuration file to fix one thing, and you break something else. …

What is SSL?

Have you ever found yourself landing at a site on the internet which produced a “This Site is Not Secure” warning? Let’s talk about that.

See, once upon a time when the greybeards invented the internet, they built a protocol known as HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol). If you’ve spent …