The Self-Inflicted Pain Ruining My Homelab
The worst pains in tech are self-inflicted. Then it’s bad Wi-Fi.
I’ve just fixed a very niche problem that was both. …
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Into the Fediverse 🖖
We live in strange times, with strange social networks doing strange things.
So why, on the same day I said I was team IndieWeb, did I enter the Fediverse? …
Tuesday, September 9th, 2025
Getting My Own Site
The second step to getting on the IndieWeb is to have your own site.
This is easier said than done, and there are lots of different ways of doing it.
This is what I did. …
Getting My Own Domain
The first step to getting on the IndieWeb is to have your own domain.
I’ve already got one, so I thought I’d explain how I got it. …
Monday, July 7th, 2025
Developer Environment Setup
I’ve pushed my developer environment setup scripts up to GitHub, and now they have their own little website to go with them. …
Monday, June 30th, 2025
Take Two
June’s IndieWeb Carnival prompt is “Take Two” and there’s a hundred different ways I could join in on this.
So here’s my first post joining in with an IndieWeb Carnival; Take Two. …
Friday, June 13th, 2025
Homelab V1
My Homelab has hit its first milestone 🚀 …
Using Terraform as the Inventory for Ansible
Terraform and Ansible are complementary tools with which you can do Infrastructure as Code. You would use Terraform to request machines from providers and then Ansible to configure them.
Using both of them together, with a dynamic inventory to link them, has been technically possible for years but never obvious enough for me to work out.
Until I found the Terraform provider. …
Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
Homelab v0
As my homelab is about to reach a milestone I thought I’d look back on where it started. …
