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'New' Casual Gaming Setup

Posted on zo 15 december 2024 in homelab

Once in a blue moon I feel the urge for computer gaming. It is just running old titles to relax and kill some time. I game so rarely that the complete setup to game on mostly disappears between sessions. Parts get reused for other projects, disks get wiped, etc. Gaming …


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Mastodon.nl upgrade to 4.3.x - progress update

Posted on zo 15 december 2024 in fediverse

So the plan was to set up a mostly proper kubernetes cluster, move mastodon.nl onto it and then migrate to mastodon 4.3.2

But tests showed there were performance issues to address and right now I've already spent the amount of time that I can on working on …


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Reconsidering website setup

Posted on di 03 december 2024 in website

I've had a tech blog website on and off over the last twenty years or so. I enjoy this very much. So this will stay.

A couple of years ago I moved to a static generated website. This is the part I am reconsidering. I've been using wordpress (again) on …


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Forgejo Forever

Posted on zo 01 december 2024 in software

About a year ago I started using Forgejo als an alternative to Gitlab for git hosting. It has really worked out wel for me. Feature wise I'm very happy, the product never gives me issues and support seems to be very well organised. With LTS and more progressive release schedules …


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Kubernetes migration for mastodon.nl progress report

Posted on za 23 november 2024 in fediverse

Progress was made to get mastodon running in kubernetes next to the virtual machines in my mastodon.nl test environment. There was more fiddling involved than anticipated, but things are moving forward.

The container based mastodon services are now using the same NFS storage, postgres database, redis and elasticsearch as …


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