I deleted my Strava account and switched to a self-hosted alternative called Geo Activity Playground. More about that in my blog post.
https://saukki.com/2025/07/i-deleted-my-strava-account-what-now/
#selfhosting #homelab #cycling #strava #geoactivityplayground #regel17
New blog post: https://blog.mei-home.net/posts/tinkerbell-5-hookos-direct-boot/
I'm trying to directly boot Tinkerbell's HookOS without using EFI/iPXE. I'm failing to, but I have a plan.
This post is mostly a bit of detective work on why HookOS' initramfs is not booting properly. The answer is: The Raspberry Pi's firmware.
Did a little writeup of my clustered PostgreSQL instances in my homelab https://arch.dog/bark/clustered-postgresql
Curious how many folks actually host their internet stuff from their home servers? Also, if you do... are you opening up ports on your router, are you using tailscale to a VPS to proxy the traffic, using something like Cloudflare Tunnels or ngrok?
I used to think Kubernetes was complex machinery solving scalability problems I would never have. I was wrong.
Kubernetes has less moving parts than my handmade deployments. It's sturdier than my hand written playbooks. It solves problems I already have.
https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/07/09-kubernetes-black-friday/
Power and internet service outage at home while I’m out of town. My homelab servers are 😵
It has been quite a while since I've been this stumped on a Homelab project. Booting HookOS (Tinkerbell's in-memory OS install OS) works, containerd comes up, but with a couple of warnings about a read-only FS. But it comes up, outputting "booted successfully" and all. But then nothing at all happens.
I've tried...a lot of things. And I mean a lot. I can only conclude that there's something wrong with the HookOS/LinuxKit initramfs. But I don't know what.
I'm at least one step further: Instead of filming my screen, I'm now connected via UART, so I can scroll back. I still have no idea what's wrong with my repackaged initramfs.
I'm getting "RAMDISK: incomplete write" errors. There must be a magic flag I'm missing somewhere.
For whatever reason, my changed initramfs isn't loadable by the kernel. I'm slowly going insane here. I just get a kernel panic.
Current status: Filming my Pi's screen with my phone camera so I can see the error messages scrolling by.
Also: Changing the initramfs to add multiple "ls" to the /init script.
The joys of debugging boot processes.
Hey #homelab who has opinions on ZFS layouts?
Current setup is 3 drives in raidz1. Not unhappy with it, but I don't want to just throw another three drives at it. Server has 8 slots, so I'm thinking 8 drives in raidz2.
I don't really care about striped mirrors because a) I don't need the extra iops (this is bulk storage only) and b) I don't care about expandability as I'll be maxing this box out.
8 drives is $_$ but I'll probably just have to start saving...
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