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Renfest 2025

Home Lab post-outage DR

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

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

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

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

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

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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