iBought an iPhone (Five Month Review)

Notes on iPhone usage after five months with my pinky toe dipped into the ecosystem.

Telstra was meant to build the NBN

Some information dumping on the topic of the Australian Government trying to trick Telstra into building the NBN at a discount.

Javascript Mortgage Math

Quick dump of how to do compounding interest repayments calculations in Javascript.

iBought an iPhone

Some of the rationale behind moving away from a privacy focussed phone OS

Pull Private Images in Gitlab Kubernetes Runners

A surprisingly simple, hack-free method of authenticating your Gitlab Kubernetes Runner with a private upstream repo.

How to get a MySQL databases size

A simple SQL query to determine the size of a database.

Bind 9 DNS in K3S but not to replace CoreDNS

Deploying a Bind9 auth DNS to K3S without interfering with CoreDNS or having odd port mapping issues. All without adding new CRDs.

The K3S Cluster

I got angry on Reddit and proved that I have disaster recovery.

Starting a Goat Farm

x-post from reddit. Ditch your career in IT; start a goat farm.

Getting around CORS errors

Legitimately allowing your application frontend to communicate with your application backend

Headless XRDP on Debian

How to configure a lightweight, headless XRDP server on Debian

Automatic SSH Agent in Arch Linux

Stop entering passwords more than you have to!

Solution for Multiple Docker Images in one Gitlab Repository

I manage multiple tags for single Docker images in Gitlab. This is how I handle it with CI

Random Regex

A collection of random regex filters that have helped me pull information in the past.

Red Alert 2 on Linux

A half baked brain dump of me getting RA2 working on nix

Truely Headless Python Scraping

How to configure Selenium to operate without a DE

Change prompt in Powershell

A note for later to change my Powershell 'PS1'

Context Switching and Long-Running Docker Containers

TIL: I done messed up big time.

Docker-in-Docker Explainer (Gitlab Runners)

My Ark Server Automation

TMI on my Ark server

Install Solanum on Debian 11

A quick how-to for installing Solanum on Debian 11, for use with Python based web scrapers

General AWS CLI Commands

A collection of random AWS CLI one-ish-liners that have helped me pull information in the past. Mostly filters.

NodeJS: Simple API

Simple Monitoring: Loki, Prometheus, Grafana

Copy/paste friendly scripts for deploying a full-ish monitoring stack, including exporters

Drawing Polygons in ConnectIQ SDK

Drawing Images in ConnectIQ SDK

Tried to draw bitmaps on a Garmin watch; got annoyed and F10'd

Random JQs I Found Useful

A collection of random JQ one-ish-liners that have helped me pull information in the past

ConnectIQ SDK On Arch Linux

Semi-passwordless SSH Agent Configuration in Powershell

Configuring the SSH agent to start as a Windows service and only ever enter your SSH keys password once.

The DL360

An overview of my favorite pet project to date.

The Kubernetes Cluster

A synopsis of my adventures deploying my own Kubernetes cluster for learning purposes