automate stuff in my homelab.

Love me some homelab automation. It puts a smile on my face when I get a little ding from telegram giving me a summary of this morning’s email, what the weather will be for the day along with a summary of established connections to my servers 'cause I’m paranoid like that. LOL fun stuff

Caddy! I am embarrassed to think about how long it took me to figure out caddy. I kept cracking away at it tho, and one day it was like the clouds rolled back, and the sun shone on my face, a alien ship came down and this green little dude gave me the secrets, and it was all so simple. Now I can have caddy up and dishing out certs in about 5 minutes. When I look back, I cringe.

I hear about Incus being the next best thing. I’ve never played around with it. Is it all that and a bag o’ chips?

Sometimes we get so engrossed in what we’re doing we can’t see the problem(s). I do that a lot, so I have take a break. Same with creating music. You get so deaf to what you are trying to write that nothing sounds good no matter what you do. In the words of Snoop Dog, ‘I had to back up off of it and sit my cup down. Tanqueray and chronic, yeah, I’m fucked up now.’

Take a break.

The computer I’m using currently, I set the BIOS in 2012. WHen I built it, I stuffed every last piece of cutting edge tech of the time into it. Dual CPU, SLI, started with 64gb ram then later on maxed the board out at 128gb. It’s still a workhorse tho. It’s one of the three I use all the time for music production, selfhosting etc.

Oh, I’ve just been tinkering around with LangFlow specifically as a news aggregator.

The flow: https://i.imgur.com/5HqznQm.png

Then asking AI to go get me some news: https://i.imgur.com/ltZPBwC.png

Still needs a little tinkering and as the final step, to send said news stories to my Telegram. I really have a blast with automation platforms like N8N, Flowise, Gotify, DopplerTask, & Kestra.

Afterwards, I smoked a small bowl and worked on a couple songs I have in the works.

HBU?

I’ve heard a lot of good things about Ghost. I see a lot of bloggers running it. I’m not a blogger and I doubt anyone would be interested in what I had to say…lol…so I don’t have experience in that area. However, Ghost seems to be the ticket for bloggers. It integrates with thousands of services and some really great theme templates. If I were going to start a blog, that’s what I would go with. Jeremy over at Noted.lol has a write up about it and iirc, he uses Ghost for Noted.lol itself.

I really like tailscale. I had a little bit of a task getting it to run along side my daily driver VPN, but all is well now. For something so easy to implement, it gives the user a lot of protection.

Aww man I remember those well. Is this for nostalgia or do you regularly use it?

Whatever solution(s) you come up with, you are going to have to address security at some point, to keep all the good stuff in, and all the baddies out…and there are millions of baddie bots just dying to get to your server to set up an xmrig-monero mining operation on your server. They don’t share in the profits either…lol.

So, while you are figuring out infrastructure, don’t overlook security.

To be honest, that was the only thing I could scrape up. At the very least, I figured if it wasn’t readily usable, it would give you some ideas of how to cobble together something along the same lines to solve your issue. Other options were using proprietary apps like FoneBackup, etc.

Cheers

LOL! It’s a real product tho. I’m struggling to get through 32 oz. I guess I don’t have the use case of someone like Diddy.

Would this work: https://github.com/johannesschiessl/Goodnotes-Backup

entirety of my network to a third party tool that I don’t know that well.

Understandable.

But I’m not very comfortable giving 100% access to Tailscale to my internal network

Out of curiosity, why are you uncomfortable with Tailscale?

Interesting. What kind of limits are there? For instance, I probably have archived well over 50k links/articles. Are there import/export options? Being federated and designed to be a share/colab platform, are there options where certain links remain private? I mean, most people probably don’t want to see all my tentacle porn. /s I’m down to to help in beta testing if that is needed. Currently I run Readeck & Linkwarden, but those are not share/colab apps. What are you using for tagging…AI or is it up to the instance owner to properly tag?

What kind of security measures are you running with a public facing website?

I think for now, I will just be a part of what is already here. Maybe later I may entertain the idea.

I can definitely sing the praises of Proxmox. One of the three businesses I run from home uses a piece of software called BlueBeam. Feature for feature, I’ve not been able to find an opensource alternative. So I spin up a Windows VM with Proxmox for BlueBeam. I also run quite a few of the helper scripts, tho I am really keeping an eye on that. There seems to be diverging opinions among the devs on how things should operate. I also run a couple of small AI projects on Proxmox, so yea…it gets a work out. For what Proxmox can do, I was honestly surprised that the community edition was free. That’s an awesome piece of software.

This one always makes me giggle and think of this.