Category: software

  • homelab – ragflow

    Some colleagues and I have been discussing rag frameworks lately with a bent toward those with strong support for custom development. The complexity of configuration frustrated one of them so he went in search of tools that had a simpler installation and configuration process. Ultimately that lead him to discover ragflow. I haven’t tried it…

  • homelab SmallStep

    In my quest to issue self signed certifications to machines in the homelab, I first went down the OpenSSL path. Then XCA and now SmallStep. I think the SmallStep configuration may be a winner but then again I thought that about pure OpenSSL and XCA so we will see. Should know by tomorrow. Regardless, this…

  • when progress is not progress.

    I’ve been working on installing a local instance of Supabase over the last few days. Most of the tutorials: 1)assume the happy path and 2) don’t touch on the post installation configuration. I did find a fulsome tutorial yesterday (https://codecope.org/how-to-self-host-supabase-using-docker/). Thanks codecope! Unfortunately this lead to much yak-shaving (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving) which required the remainder of the…

  • homelab caddy

    After some research I decided to use Caddy (https://caddyserver.com) as a reverse proxy. To be fair, the research primarily consisted of reviewing website materials, reading blog posts, and watching a number of YouTube videos about NGINX and Traefik which seem to be the two most popular products in this category. Assuming content produced on a…