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config.toml

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 # The URL the site will be built for
-base_url = "https://example.com"
+base_url = "https://bombadad.dev"
 
 # Whether to automatically compile all Sass files in the sass directory
 compile_sass = true
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ menu_items = [
     {name = "tags", url = "$BASE_URL/tags"},
     {name = "archive", url = "$BASE_URL/archive"},
     {name = "about me", url = "$BASE_URL/about"},
+    {name = "RE_Learnings", url = "$BASE_URL/re"},
 
     # set newtab to true to make the link open in new tab
     {name = "github", url = "https://github.com/Bombadad", newtab = true},

content/_index.md

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 +++
-paginate_by = 2
+paginate_by = 4
 sort_by = "date"
 +++

content/april_2025.md

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+title = "April 2025"
+date = 2025-04-21
+[taxonomies]
+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.
+
+<!-- more -->
+
+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.

content/aug_2025.md

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+title = "August 2025"
+date = 2025-08-25
+[taxonomies]
+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.
+
+<!-- more -->
+
+# 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

content/dec_2025.md

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+title = "December 2025"
+date = 2025-12-25
+[taxonomies]
+tags = ["selfhosting", "os", "bjj", "re", "AoC", "algo", "3D printing"]
++++
+
+# 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.
+
+#

content/feb_2025.md

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+title = "Feb 2025"
+date = 2025-02-25
+[taxonomies]
+tags = ["hacking", "rom", "c-lang", "ctf"]
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+
+This month I've been trying to work on my Reverse engineering skills. I'll be doing seperate posts on my RE
+adventures under a new tab so be on the lookout for those write ups.
+
+In doing RE challenges there was alot I had to learn.
+
+<!-- more -->
+
+I was also exposed to the wonders of `C`. I hope to do more of it in the future and possible incorperate
+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.

content/first_post.md

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+title = "First!"
+date = 2025-01-25
+[taxonomies]
+tags = ["first", "thoughts", "rust"]
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+
+Sooo. I'm Caleb. I'll be doing a monthly blog about stuff that I'm interested in.
+Topics include:
+- Programming (especially in Rust)
+- Building/working on computers and the like
+- Powerlifting/Strength Sports
+- The League of Legends
+
+<!-- more -->
+
+Hmmm, some stuff I'm working on now is a 2D circular route finding [library](https://github.com/Bombadad/circular-avoidance) in Rust. Some troubles I've had with it since transfering
+from Python is the hashing of float values. Thankfully I've found [OrderedFloat](https://docs.rs/ordered-float/latest/ordered_float/index.html) and hope to implement that into my codebase.
+I'm also adding geodesic calculations in the future. 3D is also in the future.
+
+Yep that's alllll. gg no ree.

content/may_2025.md

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+title = "May 2025"
+date = 2025-05-25
+[taxonomies]
+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. 
+
+<!-- more -->
+
+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.

content/re/_index.md

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+title = ""
+
+description = ""
+
+# A draft section is only loaded if the `--drafts` flag is passed to `zola build`, `zola serve` or `zola check`.
+draft = false
+
+# Used to sort pages by "date", "update_date", "title", "title_bytes", "weight", "slug" or "none". See below for more information.
+sort_by = "none"
+
+# Used by the parent section to order its subsections.
+# Lower values have higher priority.
+weight = 0
+
+# Template to use to render this section page.
+template = "index.html"
+
+# The given template is applied to ALL pages below the section, recursively.
+# If you have several nested sections, each with a page_template set, the page
+# will always use the closest to itself.
+# However, a page's own `template` variable will always have priority.
+# Not set by default.
+page_template = "page.html"
+
+# This sets the number of pages to be displayed per paginated page.
+# No pagination will happen if this isn't set or if the value is 0.
+paginate_by = 2
+
+# If set, this will be the path used by the paginated page. The page number will be appended after this path.
+# The default is page/1.
+paginate_path = "page"
+
+# If set, there will pagination will happen in a reversed order.
+paginate_reversed = false
+
+# This determines whether to insert a link for each header like the ones you can see on this site if you hover over
+# a header.
+# The default template can be overridden by creating an `anchor-link.html` file in the `templates` directory.
+# This value can be "left", "right", "heading" or "none".
+# "heading" means the full heading becomes the text of the anchor.
+insert_anchor_links = "none"
+
+# If set to "true", the section pages will be in the search index. This is only used if
+# `build_search_index` is set to "true" in the Zola configuration file.
+in_search_index = true
+
+# If set to "true", the section homepage is rendered.
+# Useful when the section is used to organize pages (not used directly).
+render = true
+
+# This determines whether to redirect when a user lands on the section. Defaults to not being set.
+# Useful for the same reason as `render` but when you don't want a 404 when
+# landing on the root section page.
+# Example: redirect_to = "documentation/content/overview"
+#redirect_to =
+
+# If set to "true", the section will pass its pages on to the parent section. Defaults to `false`.
+# Useful when the section shouldn't split up the parent section, like
+# sections for each year under a posts section.
+transparent = false
+
+# Use aliases if you are moving content but want to redirect previous URLs to the
+# current one. This takes an array of paths, not URLs.
+aliases = []
+
+# If set to "true", feed files will be generated for this section at the
+# section's root path. This is independent of the site-wide variable of the same
+# name. The section feed will only include posts from that respective feed, and
+# not from any other sections, including sub-sections under that section.
+generate_feeds = false
+
+# Your own data.
+[extra]
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content/re/start_here.md

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+title = "About"
+date = 2025-02-21
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+
+This section is for recording my learnings and resources on RE and the like.

sws_config.toml

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+

templates/about_page.html

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-{%/* extends "terminimal/templates/index.html" */%}
-
-{%/* block extra_head */%}
-    <meta name="description" content="My awesome website"/>
-    <meta name="keywords" content="Hacking,Programming,Ranting"/>
-{%/* endblock */%}