Alexander

So I was looking at bags / cases for my Fanttik gear and couldn't really find one that would fit my vacuum, mini Dremel, and blower. So I bought the Fanttik carry bag for their air compressor. It's actually pretty nice material wise and does the job nicely.

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Bet y'all will never guess where 99% of the emails came from in my spam folder. And no I won't read them. Gonna see how many I get before I delete them all 🤣 Hint: It's mostly desperate pleas for money for something in November based on the subject lines.

Been awhile. Got back from the beach yesterday. Much needed RNR. Also stopped at the Dover AFB Air Mobility Museum. Fam got a personal tour from an ex C-141A pilot which was awesome. Pretty cool place! Kiddos got to see a few C-5's and C-17's doing touch and goes too. Back to work tomorrow 😅

It's so fun when GitHub is having issues. 😤

Ok still gonna post it. I did a little digging and what it offers doesn't compare to what I've built so. I also looked into Komodo and doco-cd. The simplicity I have works well and adding ANOTHER service doesn't seem worth it. Gotta keep the #homelab easy to maintain.

So I've been working on my #GitOps setup and accompanying blog post. Was finishing it and well... Arcane exists 🤦 Not sure I even want to post my custom workflow + bash setup anymore lol. getarcane.app

@stefanmara.com

Meet Tracearr: The Ultimate Monitoring Platform for Media Servers. Part 1: blog.alexsguardian.net/posts/2026/0... Part 2: blog.alexsguardian.net/posts/2026/0...

Sneak peek at the coming compose rewrite update for nzb360's radarr integration. Big feature: Sync'd filters between radarr web and nzb! Looking forward to the sonarr one soon as well!

And yet you still refuse to add Org level environments. smh

So I just got my #GitOps flow working in my homelab. My swarm cluster services can now be automatically updated based on code changes! Renovate makes pr to my forgejo repo > i review and merge > workflow runs via an on host runner and deploys the swarm stack update. 🥰 Adding this to the blog queue

A week full of meetings and my voice decided to take a hike on Monday. It's been great... 😭

Me: *getting backlog work done* Me: *open outlook to respond to an internal email* Customer: ".... URGENT ISSUE PLS FIX" Me: 🫪

AWS be slamming my email with notifications about deprecated lambda runtimes rn. 😭

Down in the basement cleaning today and was trying to figure out why there was a lemon cleaner scent. Turns out the construction bags we got for junking stuff smell like a lemon cleaner. It's so faint it took forever to figure it out. It's been driving my wife and I mad 🤣

Tore apart an old IDE HDD and decided to finally use the Bambu Lab clock kit that came with my A1. Going to laser cut a wood frame for the clock face and probably 3d print a center insert/washer to replace the metal one.

#Ubiquiti added support for automatic certificate management to Unifi Drive via Let's Encrypt. BE GONE AUTOMATION SCRIPTS... HELLO NATIVE SUPPORT!

Helped my FIL out re-tracking his skid loader today. One of the old tracks ripped and came off. Had to replace that one on a hill (which was sketchy af). The second one was much easier on flat ground and only took 40 min compared to 3.5hr. 😅

@aceofspadescard.bsky.social gonna need you to step up your game sir.

A company actually updating pricing tiers and not screwing over customers? Y'all just made my team at work extremely happy. @tailscale.com ♥️

Currently in the process of updating our deployments at work to use #Terraform We are deploying to a new region this week, and I'm trying super hard to get as much into TF as possible before I deploy. It's going about as well as you'd expect 😅

Organization 👏 Level 👏 Environments 👏 pls I beg 😭 github.com/orgs/communi...

Godspeed #ArtemisII! 🚀

One more day then it's off to #Ottawa 🇨🇦 for the week. Get to hang with my boy @stefanmara.com 🎉 I have an in progress post on #Tracearr that I'll hopefully get some time to finish while at the hotel. And hopefully I'll also get a chance to start my other one on cluster v3 + Dozzle/Beszel. 🤞

Can we go back in time where 64GB of DDR4 ECC costs $60-80. Please?

So something I did not foresee when I deployed my new cluster with CephFS.. Host times not being in sync. May have to do a @jeffgeerling.com and deploy an rpi with a time hat for local NTP 😅 So far moving to chrony and using two Maryland NIST sources seems to have stopped the skew errors for now.

When people show me their Traefik configs and I compare them to my 2-4 line Caddy config per service. 😂 Clean config + clean stack files 💪

After giving up on my conversion to #kubernetes, for now. I will say my new cluster config using Cephfs + Docker swarm, on Debian 13, has been rock solid. Debating if I want to add a fourth node though. 🤔

Adding military conflict to my disaster recovery plans was not on my 2026 work bingo card. inb4 #AWS invests in anti missile/drone defenses for data centers. smh.

Woke up this morning to down alerts for our stack deployed in the UAE via AWS. Couldn't think of a good reason as to why it potentially went dark.

Also hit a roadblock... Need the next update of #rustfs. Which should hopefully be including the ability to read docker secrets from files. Trying to keep private stuff out of env. w/o an s3 backend I can't redeploy my #forgejo, or outline instances. I may just have to spin up minio again :/

The fact that this has to exists to fix an extremely annoying 'feature' of Docker Swarm. github.com/newsnowlabs/... ty Struan for making it ❤️ Its crazy #docker swarm still relies on SNAT masquerade. Let me have my remote client IPs pls.

Also this happened to me again on an arm instance... This time though I can't seem to recover it.... Good thing its just my small instance in our dev account. So if I end up having to blow it away I can just remount my data volume to a new instance.