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+title = "April 2025"
+date = 2025-04-21
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+tags = ["self-hosting", "caddy", "servers"]
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+
+Whoops, missed March. Oh well, it is my blog so whatever.
+
+Anyway I've been working a lot on building up my local server with services that I want to use.
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+These last two months I doubled my server count (up to 2) and starting hosting more services.
+
+## Immich
+
+Pre-March I was hosting an image service called [Immich](https://immich.app/). This was me beginning to store and locally
+backup my own photos (though I still use Google Photos) to try to move away from cloud services and own my data.
+
+I can't recommend Immich enough. It was really easy to spin up and they even had a tool to upload your photos from
+Google.
+
+## Git Server
+Even though I use GitHub for most of my repo hosting, was interested in starting up my own server. I found out
+about [Gitea](https://about.gitea.com/) and started hosting it to learn more on how to set up a server
+to try hopefully convince work to self host our own services.
+
+Gitea is pretty nice (kinda similar to Gitlab) but runs as a single executable (written in Go).
+
+## Reverse Proxy
+To expose any services to the public I needed to have something between those servers and the public web.
+I've used Nginx before but was kinda annoyed with it and wanted something fire and forget. Especially with
+SSL certs. This lead me to [Caddy](https://caddyserver.com/).
+
+Besides Immich this is the bees knees. Want to add something?? Just make sure you have a record for the name, add
+section in your config
+```
+  super.real.address {
+    reverse_proxy some.local.address.bleh:port
+  }
+```
+BLAM! you done proxied boiiiii.
+
+Of course this requires you to setup web addressing and that such but there are so much out there about this
+I won't rehash it here. 
+
+# ENDING
+This is more than I've written before so I'll stop here but I want to write more on what I'm hosting.
+
+Welp gg.

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+title = "August 2025"
+date = 2025-08-25
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+tags = ["selfhosting", "os", "powerlifting", "re"]
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+
+# Intro
+It's been a busy month for me. I've been working on doing "something" everyday (coding, lifting, running, and the like).
+But in the process of all that I've been able to install and deploy some pretty cool things.
+Also started on further refining my RE skills with doing a course on OpenSecurity2.
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+# Selfhosting
+So this month (and July) were pretty good months in the realm of self hosting (for me at least lol).
+
+I successfully upgraded my Proxmox Cluster from version 8 to 9. Which was pretty straight forward.
+Not really sure of the current improvements related to what I host but it seemed to give me a more stable
+connection over ssh.
+
+Some new services that I added over the last two months were:
+  - [SilverBullet](https://silverbullet.md/): a note (or [knowledge](https://youtu.be/0GIwTG8V-Ko?si=WJCPSExZAFLL3TXo) collection) taking service that is bundled with a server
+  - [Booklore](https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore): eBook display/library
+  - Gitea Act Runners (not fully set up)
+
+SilverBullet has been pretty enjoyable to use as I started working on my assembly skills.
+Unfortunately, I haven't had need for it with my job or really anywhere else. Story of my selfhosting journey.
+
+Booklore has a nice UI but I didn't get to use it much as I have been struggling with removing the DRM
+from my Kindle books so that I can use them elsewhere. One thing that I didn't realize when using calibre
+(the ebook library builder) is that I need to bring over the books from my kindle and not what was
+downloaded off of Amazon.
+
+# RE
+So to hold myself a bit more accountable in developing my RE skills I started doing courses through
+[OpenSecurity2](https://p.ost2.fyi/). I've done the 1000 level intro class as an intern (about 6 years ago)
+so I'm going back through it to refresh and start to take better notes on what I'm learning and cool info
+that I find. I hope to somehow teach what I learn to either my coworkers at my current job or through this
+blog in the `RE` section.
+
+# Outro 
+I know I'm more of a rambler when it comes to informal writing and I hope that this blog can help me
+start to better articulate these thoughts. Also as I get more mature I'm (thankfully) getting better at
+doing something **every day**. What I mean by that is as the day goes by, even if I don't always
+get a full hour of a work out in or write a full blog page, as long as I do SOMETHING I will progress.
+There's a lot of these types of sayings, "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good" "Keep forward momentum"
+"Journey before Destination" (I'm kidding with the last one... or am I???).
+Anyway... I just encourage you to simply do SOMETHING in the area that you are trying to accomplish everyday.
+
+Welp that's it... gg

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+title = "December 2025"
+date = 2025-12-25
+[taxonomies]
+tags = ["selfhosting", "os", "bjj", "re", "AoC", "algo", "3D printing"]
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+
+# Why no posts
+
+Cause I get busy and/or lazy. I put off things to fullfil work obligations and try new things (like BJJ). So onto what I've done these past months.
+
+#

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-title = "Feb 2024"
-date = 2024-02-25
+title = "Feb 2025"
+date = 2025-02-25
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-date = 2024-01-25
+date = 2025-01-25
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+title = "May 2025"
+date = 2025-05-25
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+tags = ["operating-sys", "old games", "ricing"]
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+
+In May I decided to "rice" some of my desktop enviroments especially with a custom task bar.
+This also came with me reinstalling arch (btw) on my Framework 13 laptop. 
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+I was also exposed to the wonders of `C`. I hope to do more of it in the future and possible incorparate
+it into my professional life. I kinda miss it actually. I first learned programming in college and `C++` was what I learned. I miss the memory management.
+But `C` is much more simple and kinda scratch the itch of programming that I missed.
+
+However, in my professional work I don't really get to explore outside of the world of `C++`. With also
+having two kids it makes it difficult to finish personal projects.
+
+That's really all I have time for today. Didn't even get to talk about introducing my daughter to Jump Start games.