Mike Bell

Insert something really interesting about my homelab to make it seem like I spend loads of time on it. Backups # Work continues on building up my backups to a place where I’m really happy with it. Immich is done but needs properly testing. ForgeJo on remotelab.uk is sort of done but needs re-working and testing. My parents proxmox backups aren’t working and I haven’t even bothered to look into why yet - I should do that asap. Talking of Proxmox backups I should look at sending the backup off to Backblaze B2 so at least they’re external as well.

If you follow me on Mastodon you know it as my home server. If you click through to my ForgeJo you know it as my git forge. It’s the host that hosts my private Elk server where the majority of my toots come from. It’s a lot of things but I’ve never really spoken about it or really come to terms with what it is now and in the future.

For my resound app I wanted a really nice release process (it is after all part of my job!). Resound is a cli go app built with Cobra and Viper, it takes the last RSS item and posts it to Mastodon, pretty simple. You can checkout the latest version here. I’m using goreleaser to build multiple architectures and then push them to my ForgeJo instance here’s how I did it because there are a lot of moving parts you have to put together in order to get it working.

I took some time last night to finally tune my renovate setup. There were a few issues with it - none of it renovates or my tech stacks fault, just stuff I wasn’t too happy with and things that could be improved.

I turned 40 in April, most people would be happy but not me. It marks a milestone in general shittery, a point in time where I’m forced to reflect on a decade of midlife crisis.