• Certificates

    I’ve chosen to avoid running a certificate server on my homelab. It isn’t that I don’t understand the importance of security – I do. It is just that the isolation and configuration of my network makes using something like Let’s Encrypt complicated and I have been unwilling to punch a hole in my firewall to…

  • 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…

  • morning person

    I am decidedly not a “morning person” as in 5:30am when this post is being written. There is one exception to this general rule – writing. I write best in the morning, right after I get up and before the needs of the day, large and small, take hold. Thus I’ve decided to use this…

  • 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…