Blog
Writing long form content helps me better understand a subject, and some content even feels worthy of publishing to the world. So here we are.
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Prototyping Provisioning with Proxmox and Packer
October 15, 2024
After spending plenty of time provisioning VMs in Proxmox manually, I figured there must be a better way and finally looked into improving my methods. This of course led down a rabbit hole with a couple gotchas, and plenty of learning.
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Rebuilding a NAS After Disk Failures
September 29, 2024
What happens if you ignore alerts and lose more disks than your TrueNAS storage pool is configured to tolerate? I unintentionally tested that and had to rebuild from scratch.
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Hugo, Netlify, and Sitemaps
February 1, 2024
I went through a brief struggle figuring out how to generate sitemaps accepted by Google from my site built with Hugo and deployed on Netlify. Here’s how I fixed it.
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Magnetic Compass Errors
January 27, 2024
A magnetic compass has various sources of error that must be taken into account when taking a reading from it. Because magnets are magical and confusing, the errors and corresponding corrections aren’t always intuitive, so let’s walk through them.
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Installing Arch on a Dell Precision 5530
August 2, 2023
I recently installed Arch on my laptop, and while it went about as smoothly as a fresh OS install can go, there were a few footguns I ran into that I wanted to document.
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Hugo, Tailwind, and Netlify
April 27, 2023
I recently hopped on the Tailwind CSS bandwagon, and I’ve been thoroughly enjoying how productive I feel building web pages. I also wanted to revamp this site, which was already built with Hugo and deployed on Netlify . Here’s the configuration I ended up with.
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Building a LightDM Webkit Greeter Theme
January 23, 2021
I recently built a custom LightDM greeter theme , and there wasn’t a whole lot of info I found on how to do this, so I wanted to jot down some tips.
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Routing an AWS Registered Domain to Netlify
November 27, 2018
I recently tried to use Netlify’s managed DNS with a domain name registered through AWS and struggled. While it turned out that I was being a bit of an idiot, I figured I would share the problem and solution here.