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A constrained workaround using null_resource to restore idempotency while waiting on an upstream provider fix.

I’ve been in a state of catching up for a couple of months now. Months! It’s frustrating, to say the least. I can’t perform at my best, I…

Inside my head I have too many ongoing projects. It perfectly reflects the state of my mind. Everything is in my head, without structure.…

I wanted to passthrough UHD 630 to a DSM guest. I thought that PCIe passthrough in Proxmox has matured enough that it will be a…

Text manipulation question I've been working on a migration script for a

What happens when I open my laptop at home I used to think that I needed a

Ever since two of our kids started school at different schools with different schedules, I’ve been trying to figure out a way to still…

WordCamp Manila 2023 Attendees For more than a decade now, I’ve been using WordPress. Using is a keyword here. I’ve been using it without…

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My UPS have a serial port to report operating data. I read in the manual that it uses Upsilon 2000 software to get data. It uses Megatec…

I continued with my Xpenology Experiments when I remember that there was an NVR that's using an older version of Nvidia GPU: DVA3219. It's…

I have a DS918+ which only have 2 GbE port. I'm in the process of upgrading my local network to 10GbE. At the same time, I don't want to…

For the past couple of days (when I'm procrastinating), I've been attempting to make an XFX RX 460 to to work as a GPU Passthrough on a…

When I learned the term about multihoming, I revisited my interest again to have a VPS to setup as a VPN for my network. I wanted it to be…

For a couple of months now, my days are mostly filled work and family time. I

While doing a weekly review earlier today, I realized most of the stuff in my

“Way too often we bring the best of ourselves to work and the leftovers home.”

I recently got a new a job as a Cloud Engineer. Part of pre-onboarding was choosing my preferred equipment. The recommended machine for…

I maintain and add/fix features to an eight-year-old codebase (web app). I like maintaining and keeping things running. My main challenge…

Last week, we had a 4-hour power outage. Since all our networking equipment is plugged in a UPS , I assumed internet will be up for at…

For the past few months I’ve been buying tiny PCs in FB Marketplace because I'm planning to create a homelab Kubernetes cluster for…

My role at work is partly DevOps. This means that there are rare instances that even if I'm not at home (where internet is reliably…

I tried an unstructured life for a few months. No wake up time, no schedule, no commitment on deliverables. I was free to do anything I…

Scope of work presented by a contractor I used to be too critical with grammar

No matter how much I plan, I still go through a phase where I just have zero motivation to do anything at all. I find myself wasting my day…

I have been consistently working out for more than 80 days because of stay-at-home orders. This has been the habit that had the most impact…

I gave up on the idea of "beating" procrastination. I've tried all the to-do apps and all the productivity hacks. I just accepted that it's…

I have this guilt that I’m doing so well with Coronavirus’ quarantine. The only thing that changed with my routine is I haven’t been able…

The time after Christmas and before New Year is a perfect time to stop and reflect. There’s a lot of downtime. Almost everybody stops…

I'm starting a personal weekly goal of producing something I can show. The idea is based on Patrick McKenzie's advice with the same title .…

Backup to Amazon S3 using WHM is natively supported. However, I ran into trouble that the AWS keys I setup isn't working. It turns out that…

I figured that Monday is the perfect time to review my week. I have a fresh outlook and high energy because of the weekend break. I always…

Read one book at a time. While reading, highlight and take notes ideas that come up to your mind. At the end of the book meticulously edit…

So this is my simple observation: When deciding to embrace a self-motivated

I enjoy understanding how other people code. I'm not the type who bash at

I've been reading @iamdevloper tweets. I'm surprised that I can relate to most of the stuff posted there. Just a reminder that what I’m…

To conclude, programmers work at night because it doesn’t impose a time limit on when you have to stop working, which gives you a more…