Jae's Blog

2025-04-20

Headless road to ARM: status

Filed under: DevOps,Resonite — jae @ 04:23
Being currently assigned to the issue about ARM support for Resonite headlesses (GH-2555), time for an update since there hasn’t been one in some time. First off, everything is looking great, current status being: This marks the first ARM-related PR being reviewed and merged into an official repository, being the PR #1 on the Brotli […]

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2025-04-04

Making your own web corner

Filed under: DevOps,Networking,Random,Tutorials — jae @ 04:11
So, you’ve finally bought yourself a domain (or thinking about it), got a server at home, and now you want to host your own corner of the web? Great! Allow me to be your guide through this journey. Pre-requisites You’ll need a bunch of stuff for this tutorial, including: A domain Your domain will be […]

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2025-03-19

Resostats outage postmortem

Filed under: DevOps,Resonite — jae @ 04:10
Today, from approximately 16:30 UTC to 17:45 UTC, the Resostats Dashboard which provides various public metrics on Resonite was offline. Background Routine maintenance was being done on the machine hosting Resostats, namely updating the packages, containers, cleaning up some debugging tools.Configuration changes were committed to try and have the TSDB sync faster to the S3 […]

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2025-01-17

Using the new GitHub ARM runners

Filed under: DevOps,Tutorials — jae @ 04:05
Just yesterday at the time of writing, GitHub (finally) released their public ARM runners for Open-Source projects. This means you can now build ARM programs natively on Linux without having to fiddle with weird cross-compilation. One way to achieve that is through a Matrix. Considering the following workflow to build, then upload an artifact (taken […]

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2025-01-15

Building .NET using GitLab CI/CD

Filed under: DevOps,Tutorials — jae @ 04:02
As I often mention, I use .NET a lot in general, as it’s fairly easy to use, has a huge ecosystem, and has evolved really positively in the past years (long gone are the days of Mono :D). Another component of this is that .NET projects are incredibly easy to build and publish using GitLab […]

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2025-01-12

Deploying Hugo using GitLab pages

Filed under: DevOps,Meta,Tutorials — jae @ 03:54
It is 2025 and it’s still super easy to deploy a blog using Hugo and GitLab pages. In fact, the post you are reading right now is exactly that, deployed on my self-managed instance. But Jae, weren’t you on another host beginning from last year? Yes, last year I switched to Mataroa for the ease […]

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2024-12-08

Deploying your own GitLab instance under 5 minutes

Filed under: DevOps,Tutorials — jae @ 03:31
It’s no secret that I work around GitLab during my day job and that I generally love this software.This blog post is therefore not biased at all in any way or form. (do I need to mark this further as sarcasm, or did everyone get the memo?) For this quick tutorial, you’ll need: For this, […]

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2024-12-01

Setting up WireGuard tunnels from a BGP router

Filed under: DevOps,Networking,Tutorials — jae @ 03:28
I recently re-started my BGP shenanigans, and with that, re-setup some VPNs using WireGuard for my personal machines. I basically use those to whitelist connections to certain applications to only the prefix used by my machines. The host machine runs Debian and BIRD, and the end devices are diverse from standard Linux machines, to Windows […]

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2024-11-11

Sending commands to a Docker Compose Resonite headless

Filed under: DevOps,Tutorials — jae @ 03:26
After searching for a bit, I found a way to send commands to a Resonite headless within Docker programmatically without having to run docker compose attach <container> and having to manually detach. You will need the software socat installed on the host machine, given most of my machines are running Debian, this can be done […]

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