Upgraded a bunch of stuff in my homelab last week! Added a new proxmox host and moved the plex server onto my old gaming PC with a new 16-bay JBOD from QNAP. I’ve run into a couple issues and wanted to make some notes for my future self if I need to solve them again.…
Here’s my notes on using @lukeacl.com‘s lovely did:web tool (source here). Get an invite code for a PDS. I’ve got a guide for setting one up without using docker if you want to run your own. I’m happy to get you an invite code on hellthread.pro if you would like to test it out. Ping…
I ran into a couple snags while moving my Bluesky account to my self-hosted PDS. Wanted to gather these in one spot for future reference. I followed @bnewbold.net’s guide for migrating with the goat tool. In no particular order, here are the fixes for each of the things I ran into. Missing Blobs But the…
Just got home from Expo. What a blast! Spent a lot of time in the tournament room volunteering and playing poorly. Super cool stuff this year for the 40th year of expo. As always, the homebrew pins are a delight. The standing hugging pin had some crazy shots. 1930s flipperless pins were also a huge…
I wrote some notes on mastodon maintenance/upgrades and why I went with Jortage for tilde.zone’s media
Moved some stuff around the other day to preserve my benharri.wordpress.com subdomain. I discovered that a redirect costs $13/year to be able to send your traffic to your own site. This all feels so hypocritical with Matt Mullenweg’s recent ranting about WP Engine disabling post revisions. Bro, come on…. wp.com is just as bad if…
Put together a silly little php script to build an SVG QR code dynamically. This started a while ago as a quick way to get a printable QR code for each pinball machine that would shoot you to an issue report form with the name of the game prefilled. I previously generated a bunch of…
Worth the read if you have a spare moment. So, there’s a man crawling through the desert. He’d decided to try his SUV in a little bit of cross-country travel, had great fun zooming over the badlands and through the sand, got lost, hit a big rock, and then he couldn’t get it started again.…
Saving this as a post here for my future reference. The key to getting the “default” fonts to apply to plain-text (and all mails with the allow messages to use other fonts setting off) is also changing the fonts for Other Writing Systems. Why is it like this? Who knows! This answer brought to you…
I’ve found myself tinkering with WordPress stuff a lot lately. Here’s another quick change I made for nicer shortlinks with a shorter domain that I have. This was inspired by trawling through jwz’ archives and hacks. This post in particular. The first piece of this puzzle is adding this location block to the nginx configs…
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