Blog posts tagged with 'linux''

2025-01-01: ...because everybody wants 40 cores, 256GB RAM, and 130TB storage. Some 2025 updates to my homelab, which might or might not be getting out of hand.

2024-08-25: A short story on why I still go through the effort of self hosting servers and some things it taught me recently.

2023-10-26: How to move a Proxmox host to a new m.2 SSD when using a LSI SAS HBA card to realize PCI passthrough for HDDs for zfs + TrueNAS.

2023-04-08: Going from a single, bare metal Debian server to two physical machines, 7 VMS, 5 zfs pools, and a whole bunch of data and networking: An experience. Also, stuff broke.

2022-09-08: Tracking vehicle location offline with a Raspberry Pi, Part 2: Apache Flink, scala, Kafka, and road-testing.

2022-08-29: Building custom Linux images, dealing with a 40 year old GPS standard, & trying to shoehorn functional programming into Python: Tracking vehicle location offline with a Raspberry Pi. (Part 1)

2021-08-12: A quick project to write a Telegram chat bot that can control a camera, connected to a Raspberry Pi, to take pictures of things; or: Why I refuse to trust IoT vendors and do everything myself

2021-02-28: On the joy of inheriting a rather bad dataset - dissecting ~120GB of terrible Google Takeout data to make it usable, using Dataflow/Beam, go, Python, and SQL.

2020-12-21: One question I do get in earnest quite frequently is why I put up with running GNU/Linux distributions for development work. An attempt at a simple response.

2020-09-26: Responding to an article on using Rust for throw away code and prototyping: Making a case for go over Rust, Python, and perl.

2020-05-21: Ditching WordPress for a static site generator

2020-02-25: How a broken memory module hid in plain sight – and how I blamed the Linux Kernel and two innocent hard drives

2019-12-09: The amount of time my outdoor cameras are being set off by light, wind, cars, or anything other than a human is insane. Overly cautious security cameras might be a feature, but an annoying one at that...

2019-08-07: In 2017, I wrote about how to build a basic, Open Source, Hadoop-driven Telematics application (using Spark, Hive, HDFS, and Zeppelin) that can track your movements while driving, show you how your driving skills are, or how often you go over the speed limit - all without relying on 3rd party vendors processing and using that data on your behalf...

2019-07-01: In this article, we'll take a look at whether Apache Hadoop still a viable option in 2019, with Cloud driven data processing an analytics on the rise...

2019-04-11: In this article, I’ll document my process of building a home server - or NAS - for local storage, smb drives, backups, processing, git, CD-rips, and other headless computing...