TheOrangeOne
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Get more information about creating homelab, projects, reviews on applications and software, and more! Jake Howard is a developer, sysAdmin, and InfoSec.
TheOrangeOne
2y ago
It’s something no one wants to see: You open up an important file, and are met with very different content to what you’re expecting. This weekend, that happened to me. Losing data is terrible, no matter what it is. To a bit of a perfectionist like me any loss of data, no matter how insignificant, sucks ..read more
TheOrangeOne
2y ago
Internet Explorer was, in its prime, the most popular internet browser in the world. Originally released alongside Windows 95, its headline feature seemed to be that it was maintained by Microsoft and was automatically installed. It wasn’t until Internet Explorer 2 ..read more
TheOrangeOne
2y ago
I’ve used Ansible for a number of years for the provisioning of both my servers and desktops. It’s versatile, it’s simple, it’s powerful, and has a number of great features. Personally, I make all of my “playbooks” public for all for all to see, but provisioning still requires some secrets ..read more
TheOrangeOne
2y ago
It was a normal (for 2021) Sunday evening back in July, I was minding my own business, obviously doing something super cool, when I spotted a message from a certain badger-y fellow in the Self Hosted show’s Discord. Alex has the lovely and weird ability of reliably nerd-sniping me into spending a couple of hours or so creating a side projects, so down the rabbit-hole I dove ..read more
TheOrangeOne
2y ago
As a developer I do basically everything in git and for fun I run my own git server on my home server. I’ve swapped around quite a lot between GitLab and Gitea, but finally settled on GitLab. It’s a bit heavy, but the deep CI integration is really nice ..read more
TheOrangeOne
2y ago
I have a bunch of VMs and LXCs on my proxmox server. Whilst I like to keep as little data in each of them as possible, and instead mount in my storage (in the form of a ZFS and snapraid pool), I still use proxmox’s built-in backup feature to back up to a separate drive, because backups can’t hurt ..read more
TheOrangeOne
2y ago
My website is built with Hugo, a great static site generator with a bunch of features. One of the big missing features though is search. Hugo has documentation on a bunch of different integrations, but none of them quite did what I wanted ..read more
TheOrangeOne
2y ago
Docker containers (like onions) have layers. In your Dockerfile, each new RUN, COPY or ADD line creates a new layer (so do the others, but not ones which affect the filesystem). Each layer contains only the files which changed from the previous layer, which allows layers to be shared between containers, reducing download size and disk usage ..read more
TheOrangeOne
2y ago
For anyone who’s spoken to me, they’ll know I’m very quick to link people to posts I’ve written. That’s not in terms of pushing the things I’ve written (usually), but also being able to retrieve the links as quick as possible ..read more
TheOrangeOne
2y ago
The internet is a pretty big place - a huge amount of data (approximately 131TB per second) is transferred over it every second of every day. The backbone of the internet is designed to transfer huge amounts of data, but people are impatient creatures, and want data as quick as possible ..read more