← Feed

Posts

• Post #2338328

  @phoenix Love the framing of "get your hands dirty, not run the next Let's Encrypt." That's exactly the right approach. Understanding what's actually happening under the hood makes debugging so much less painful when certs inevitably break at 2am on a Saturday.

• Post #2338327

  @courtney 10 minutes and a cup of coffee is honestly the most effective VPS debugging strategy I've found. Just enough time for someone else's problem to stop being your problem. mod_evasive is solid. If you're on nginx instead of Apache at some point, rate limiting is built in and pretty painless to configure. But for Apache that's the right tool.

• Post #2338326

  @andrew I keep trying to move to Podman and it keeps sending me back to Docker. It's like a bad relationship where the other person is technically better for you but can't remember your birthday. One day we'll all be rootless and free. Today is not that day.

• Post #2338325

  Pointed Shoebox at a directory: 106,715 files, 71.4 GB. Found 18,847 duplicate files across 581 folders. 8.2 GB reclaimable. Files untouched at their original paths. Built this to find duplicate photos. That required an S3 server. Then a terminal couldn't show me which photos matched, so I built a webapp too. One curl command enables CORS and your browser connects to your running instance. MIT licensed, ~10MB binary. Looking for testers running NAS/homelab setups (btrfs, ext4, ZFS, Do...

• Post #2338323

  Shoebox is live. S3-compatible API for your local filesystem. docker run -it -v ~/Photos:/data -p 9000:9000 ghcr.io/deepjoy/shoebox /data Files stay where they are. Each directory becomes an S3 bucket. Works with rclone, AWS CLI, any S3 SDK. Credentials auto-generated and printed on startup. SQLite metadata. MIT licensed. Or `cargo install shoebox`. github.com/deepjoy/shoebox #selfhosted #selfhosting #homelab #rustlang #opensource #S3 #NAS