Michael

And another small thing done. Frequency of logs with levels above info. There's seemingly quite a lot of them, with one every ~3s.

Scheduled looking closer at everything warning/error/critical soon-ish to see whether those are real issues or just "context aborted" stuff because I closed a page before it was entirely done loading...

#HomeLab

Me: Picks up random, older Homelab task that looks like it's going to be no more than an hour or two worth of fun.

The broadly grinning and very shaggy herd of yaks: Come on, you know you want to!

🤦

#HomeLab

For a blog post, I decided to produce a few charts with good old Gnuplot. And it's just been a massive series of flashbacks since then. 😅

Also, sadly "creating charts with gnuplot" is not like riding a bike. I'm basically starting from zero, even though I can remember a time where I was able to produce gnuplot charts in my sleep. Or massively hung over on less than four hours of sleep. 🤓

#blogging #gnuplot

Onwards with the "odd little tasks" list. Today: Centralising the name of my Ansible user, so I don't repeat it in dozens of tasks.

Exciting, right? 😉
But honestly: I've been enjoying the last couple of days of knocking out all of the small Homelab tasks I've gathered over the last few years.

#HomeLab

This good boy would like you to know two things:

1) He is the goodest of boys and definitely doesn't need to be on a leash.

2) He definitely wouldn't have run after that bunny even if he wasn't leashed. That's baseless slander. See point 1)

#DogsOfMastodon #dogs

An LLM story in three acts.

Me: Writes JIRA ticket with something like "Introduce env variable X. It should be read during program startup. If it is set, the filepath for Y should be taken from it. If it is not set, the currently hardcoded value shall be used as the default".

1/3

#LLM #work

I think it is good that my private Forgejo instance is not publicly available. The things I'm doing in my Go project could single-handedly poison every coding LLM out there. 🤦

Today: I need to refactor my test helpers because I managed to introduce a package dependency cycle.

#Programming #Golang

I launched my first few crawls overnight, and there's so much I want to say.

Let's start with a few numbers. First of all, YaCy is finally an application which puts some load on my Homelab. See picture 1.

It peaked at around 4GB of RAM, even though it currently has no limits, and there was still RAM to spare on the machine.

During that time, about 20h, the crawler fetched about 100GB worth of data.

1/x

#HomeLab #YaCy

How the hell is buying ebooks in 2026 still this fucked up?

I'd like to buy a couple of WH40k novels. For some reason, Black Library themselves seemed to have stopped selling their books directly somewhere in the past two months?!

My German book store then leaves me two choices: I can buy the Omnibus of the novels in dead tree form in the original English.

Or I can buy an ebook, but only in the German translation.

I cannot buy an English language ebook version. 🤦

#Bookstodon

I've reached two new milestones in failing to talk myself out of buying an MNT Reform Next: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next. One, the website now lives in a constantly open tab.

Two, I just looked up how old my current Asus Zephyrus is, and found out that it is already six years old.

I find the machine interesting due to the Open HW, but especially due to the upgradability.

I'm really not a HW guy whatsoever, so the open hardware is mostly interesting from an ideological standpoint.

#MNT

Customary computering on the train picture. Today, the goal is to get some blog post drafts spruced up a bit and ready to publish. One about my database setup for my little Golang project including CI setup, and the second is a reflection on one year of k8s in the Homelab.

#trains #DeutscheBahn

Today's Google search query: database schema design basics.

🫣

Going to patch another LPE now, it seems. 😔

Or rather, implement the mitigations.

#HomeLab

Hm, just spend a few hours trying to figure out why my YaCy peer is accessible by some peers, but not accessible by others, but I just can't figure it out. For some reason, YaCy seems to be returning 404 to requests occasionally, but without anything in the logs indicating why.

#YaCy #HomeLab