Linsomniac's Articles

In the past I’ve run socat as a daemon to run a shell command and send the output to a socket. It works well, but I wanted to try the systemd way of doing what “xinetd” has done in the past: Run a command and send the output to a socket.

Looked at a few more static site generators, looking for a simple one, based on responses in a “Hacker News comment section on Hugo today”. Here are some more mini reviews.

I’ve been playing around with a few simple static site generators, the simpler the better. Here’s a mini review.

It’s a little tricky to connect android to Tailscale, but here’s how I do it using the Google Workspace authentication.

Headscale “users” can be authenticated using Google Workspace logins. This only applies to nodes that do not have tags. Nodes with tags do not get logged in/out via OIDC.

PGLoader can painlessly copy data from a SQLServer into PostgreSQL, including setting up the schemas and copying the data. A very slick tool that I’d never used before.

I created a schema and accidentally put “test” instead of “text” in a column type. To fix it, I tried copying it to a new column, since you can’t alter a column in sqlite, then copying it back, but that lost the NOT NULL constraint.

I had wanted a BLTouch 3D printer, I felt like the bed leveling would reduce the amount of fiddling per print. I chose to upgrade the motherboard to get something with a native BLTouch port, as the way to achieve it.

Over the last few weeks, I built April Wilkerson’s Raised Garden Beds with self-watering system. They are really good looking, and were fun builds, but I do have some notes on the build that may help others.

Ubuntu 20.04 includes the ability to install with ZFS for the root and boot partitions. However, it does not include an option for encrypting the root volume. Fortunately, it is easy to enable it.