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Going selfhosted - initial thoughts

Going selfhosted - initial thoughts

Couple of months ago I got notified that my hosting provider would increase their prices, with about 20%. On one side, I'm surprised that it happened only now (I have started witht them in 2014), but... 20% in one go is a bit much IMHO. So... I started

House log

Today I realised it's quite a while since I wrote anything on the house. This is our third year into the house. Not too informative :)

House log - 07/04/22

House log - 07/04/22

Today I realised it's quite a while since I wrote anything on the house. Last year we moved into the house (on 15/12/2021 to be more precise) and we've been using it since. It's OK :) Here are some of the things that

Compose a variable from a combination in Ansible

Compose a variable from a combination in Ansible

The other day I was confronted with a bit of a problem in Ansible: I have a role with a docker_container where I use two variables, one defining the user (role_user) and one defining the group (role_group). When both the user and group are defined, they specify

Careful as you go!

Careful as you go!

Yesterday I tried to set up Authentik, but it was failing in gunicorn with an obscure message that a file could not be accessed. I got very frustrated and enabled debug logging in Authentik's server, and I let it run. Big mistake! I forgot about it and the

House log - 30/12/21

House log - 30/12/21

Today, we finished with the apartment where we were. As expected, the independent evaluator of the state of play (état des lieux) found that most of our deposit was to go to the owner. At least, we didn't have to pay extra. As this is done, we'

House log - 15/12/21

House log - 15/12/21

Today, despite some unfinished bits in the house, we did the removal. The removal company was OK, but a bit negligent. We had Nichita doing a sleepover so we can fix the house, which helps because of the home schooling and stuff. State of the house The house state today

House log - 03/11/21

House log - 03/11/21

Today is the day where the electricity distributor comes in. In the morning I confirmed (again) they would arrive. ... And so they did, almost one hour earlier than they said :) They did great work and now all electricity works are done! Woo-hoo! We installed the big window and figured out

House log - 03/11/21

House log - 03/11/21

When we went to the house we saw. outside. the. windows. Now all windows are clean and look good. State of the house The house state today is: * [x] Paint * [x] Parquet * [x] Tiles * [x] Security * [ ] Doors (70%) * [x] Ordered entrance door * [ ] Install entrance door * [x] Ordered interior doors (5)

House log - 02/11/21

House log - 02/11/21

Today I went to the house with two items in mind: 1. Wait for the guy with the digger to get the driveway started and 2. Be present when the electrical distributor would come to move the meter inside the house. Digging The guy was supposed to come at 07:

Propagate Svelte Data

Propagate Svelte Data

I've had to add a couple of links to youtube to my blog. I've seen a number of ways to add youtube links, ranging from simple HTML links to iframe tags. I've settled for a simple approach: a linked a static image: [![title](/content/

House log - 22/10/21

House log - 22/10/21

Today I've got some pretty pics from our guy that he finished the first flight of stairs: ...and the finished product: All in all, we progress nicely in the house. Next week we start fixing the outside of the house. Also, the doors should start coming (the outside

House log - stealing

House log - stealing

We have noticed some items were missing from the house a while ago. Last week I looked at the security camera and I've seen that... the painter stole stuff from our house. This comes few months after someone stole a couple of manholes. :(

Propagate Svelte Data

Propagate Svelte Data

In the previous post, I've managed to load data from an YAML file into svelte, and prepare for usage in the file where the loading process happened (__layout.svelte in my case). What if I need (part of) the data in other files, like index.svelte? I can&

Load YAML in Svelte

Load YAML in Svelte

I'm writing a dashboard app in svelte, so I have shortcuts for all my home infrastructure. Options Although I can do it in static mode (all values and things are hardcoded), I wanted to create a config file and generate the page based on it. From a format

House log - 24/09/21

House log - 24/09/21

Today, we had a Viessmann certificated engineer coming at the house to connect the internal and external parts of the heat pump. He almost left because we don't have the manuals for the pump, and the said manuals contain a set of specific codes for the pump. We

Web Services from Scratch - 1. Infrastructure

Web Services from Scratch - 1. Infrastructure

I've started writing my first web service with Spring. It started as something simple (check periodically if a site is active), but it evolved more and more as requirements and over-engineering creped in. This post lists the tings I set up now so I can make my life

Install private docker registry

Install private docker registry

Following the previous post, I have now everything ready to install my own registry. NAS storage I've created a new place (dataset) on my NAS server to store the registry's images and shared it via NFS. I've mounted it on my destination machine: -

Create a Wildcard Self-signed Certificate with Wildcard Domains

Create a Wildcard Self-signed Certificate with Wildcard Domains

I'm preparing my docker-based infrastructure and one of the items (to make my live a bit more complicated) is to install a private docker registry. One of the requirements is to obtain a certificate (so I don't have an insecure registry). Create a self-signed certificate First,

House log - 31/07/21

House log - 31/07/21

The house state today is: * [x] Paint * [x] Parquet * [x] Tiles * [x] Security * [ ] Doors * [ ] Plumbing (80%) * [ ] Electricity (40% - cables are laid) Electricity Today I got some quotes from a Belgium distributor, and then got prices form a shop in Germany. The items are: Type Item code Alimentation Alimentation 320mA

Install paperless-ng: Install paperless

Install paperless-ng: Install paperless

I've finished setting up the shares, so it's time now oto install paperless. The repository has an installation via docker compose and via ansible. I need a combination of the two, with the NAS on top, so I've decided to follow this approach to

Install paperless-ng: Set up Shares

Install paperless-ng: Set up Shares

Today I'm starting to install paperless-ng to finally put an order in the mount of documents I have. This is a necessity because, with the construction of the house, we've amassed a silly number of PDFs (and other documents) and it becomes rather hard to have

House log - 14/07/21

House log - 14/07/21

Today, there was a lot of commotion at the house. Security The security people came to install the system. Advantages: 1. Cheap - they had a 700 Euro discount 2. Pretty - contacts are tiny. 3. Wireless - all is wireless. Didn't investigate the protocol yet. 4. Haz

House log - 18/06/21

House log - 18/06/21

I wanted to get an Ajax security system because of the potential of integration with other systems. As soon as I've started investigating I've hit two issues: 1. Connectivity to monitoring centre and 2. Installation Connectivity to monitoring centres I've found out that the

House log - 18/06/21

House log - 18/06/21

Today I went to the house to see the progress of the third session done by the painter (after he went home for the weekend). He did some progress from few days ago. For consistency, I will use the same reference as in the previous post: 1. Smoothing out the