Shutting it down

This project was essentially a proof-of-concept. After 30+ days of uptime, I’ve decided it was time to take it down…

Welcome to the future

This blog is now

It’s been a month since I installed Anubis, and I thought I should give a quick update on that “anime cat girl…”

So, in addition to the new platform, there’s been a bit else going one. I’ve relocated, for example, which meant not only dealing with moving and mortgages, but also completely breaking down my homelab and rebuilding it in a new place…

Greetings from my new website!

If things look a bit different, it’s because this is now a fully static site! I was previously using the dotclear platform to host my blog. It was functional enough, but quite slow. My nginx proxy would cache the content to help it feel a bit quicker, but writing posts and using the admin interface was still a very slow process…

If you're visiting this site on the clear-web, you may have noticed a brief landing page featuring an anime cat girl (well, an anime jackal girl, actually).

That's the mascot of the Anubis project, created by Techaro...

Sometimes I think I over-complicate things.

In fact, I know that I do. e.g. this blog. I really don't need this to be hosted in my homelab on a high-availability server cluster. I could just use Blogger or any other free, hosted blog solution.

Anyway, today's example is an oddity I noticed in my DNS logs. Well, actually, it started when I noticed that the RAM in my router was filled with files in /tmp. Like a whole GB of files. I traced it down to my DNS logs, which were occupying almost the entire /tmp mount. I found that I had apparently set the log retention to 90 days. I reduced it to something more reasonable and I think that should solve the problem. However, that also made me curious about what was in those logs...

I wanted share a quick update on my gaming setup:

I used to have a desktop PC running Fedora Wrokstation which acted as my "Gaming PC," primarily for Cities Skylines II and Palworld.
Within the past month, I've repurposing that computer into a combination NAS/media server/gaming machine. I'll cover the rest of the change in another post, but here I wanted to focus on the gaming aspect real quick.