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Renfest 2025
Home Lab post-outage DR
Published Sep 16, 2025 by Isaac Johnson
I can handle power blips. I can even handle a few hours out; between the laptops that serve as nodes and my variety of APC battery backups - it can go a while. But 7 hours, which is how long yest...
OS Task Management: Tasktrove and Tududi
Published Sep 11, 2025 by Isaac Johnson
Marius has brought up a couple of good Open-Source project/task management tools lately. First is a very simple clean board, TaskTrove which we will explore in docker and Kubernetes. We’ll also t...
Saying goodbye to Sendgrid
Published Sep 9, 2025 by Isaac Johnson
It is indeed a sad day for me. Sendgrid, which was an amazing email tool that always had a free tier since it pretty much started in 2009 lasted until 2019 when Twilio bought them.
Container Monitoring: Containery and Dockpeek
Published Sep 4, 2025 by Isaac Johnson
There have been a couple of posts from Marius in my backlog to check into. One was on Containery, a nice containerized Docker monitoring and administration tool. I plan to show how to test in WS...
OS Apps: Jellyfin and Lauti
Published Sep 2, 2025 by Isaac Johnson
Today I want to look for an alternative to Plex. For a while, Jellyfin has been on my list as that seems to be the most popular drop-in replacement. I’ll try setting it up and using and how one c...
Zed with AI
Published Aug 28, 2025 by Isaac Johnson
zed now has a preview of AI tools. I last looked at a year ago in Oct 2024 and I managed to get it working in Windows with a mix of scoop and using Nightly.
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