January 11, 2021

Rescuing a CentOS 8 FreeIPA Cluster

Sometimes life throws you little curveballs like filesystem corruption that only shows up at reboot. Today was one of those days…

August 26, 2020

Updating Isso Configuration

With the most recent round of updates we need to make a small change to the Isso configuration to manage a change made in the Debian package.

July 27, 2020

Jekyll Static Site Search With lunr.js

This is an older addition to this site, but a neat trick anyway for a static site. Today we’ll implement Solr style site search with nothing more dynamic than a little client side JavaScript.

June 17, 2020

Better Camera Cards With HomeAssistant

This quick update adds a lot of nice functionality to the HomeAssistant camera integration for Amcrest cameras.

June 16, 2020

Rescuing a Failed SSD

My VM server is always a load of fun when it comes to things crashing unexpectedly. This time around it turns out it wasn’t due to a firmware incompatibility but rather due to the SSD failing at a hardware level. So it’s time for another episode in the data recovery saga.