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Using Nagios or Icinga to get a Playstation 5

Okay, so maybe this is silly, but before a friend of mine pointed out Hotstock to me, I decided to use Selenium to track stock of Playstation 5s as it's so hard to get one. I wasn't enough of a jerk to try to make a bot to buy one,

Install Ghost on FreeBSD 13

A guide to installing Ghost on FreeBSD 13 from scratch.

crypto

Secrets Storage With Vault On Your Home Server

You may be looking for a self-hosted solution for storing passwords and other secrets that you may not feel comfortable having in the cloud. Vault by HashiCorp is an enterprise secrets storage solution with both web based and command line access. It's open source and you can run it for

monitoring

Graphing Nest vs the Outside

Getting acquainted with Google's new Nest API

monitoring

About Nagios Plugins and How to Write Them

A quick explanation on how to develop custom modules for Nagios compatible monitoring systems.

monitoring

Monitoring and Graphing with Etekcity VeSync

How to monitor power usage with VeSync smart plugs

honeycomb-lx2k

HoneyComb LX2K, first impressions

The HoneyComb LX2K is a developer workstation board by SolidRun that first came to my attention via this Phoronix post, boasting 16 2ghz ARM A72 cores in a mini-ITX form factor. I was in the market for a new home server and was interested in going ARM this time seeking

linux

Installing Debian on Existing Encrypted LVM

It isn't easy to reuse a LUKS encrypted LVM in Debian's installer. Let's do it anyway.

linux

A distro agnostic guide to Graphite with venv

How to install and configure the Graphite TSDB on RHEL8, Debian 10, Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 20.04.

freebsd

Install Ghost on FreeBSD 12

A guide to installing Ghost on FreeBSD 12.1 from scratch.