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Today is World Mental Health day. I’m not ok, but more importantly are you ok? Please check in on yourself, friends and family. Now is as good a time as ever to say hi and ask “How’re you doing?” (Joey accent optional).

Another post? But I’ve not written about it here! I have so many partially started angry, sad rants penned in Joplin (which is starting on the enshittification path with AI going off the latest change log). Problem is I can’t finish them I find I’m not eloquent enough to articulate why I’m so reluctant to embrace and use it. So here goes.

After chatting with my wife about the holidays we’ve been on I figured I’d write up some of our less fortunate ones. St Ives # I’ve spent so much time in St Ives, most of our summer holidays were spent there. I love it there but sadly it’s become far to expensive and isn’t the easiest to get to if you don’t drive.

I’ve decommissioned my remotelab.uk Mastodon server in favour of social.lol, I really like what they’re doing over there and had a similar idea for what I’d like remotelab to be. You can find me at mikebell@social.lol. There’s a new holding site up at https://remotelab.uk now.

For as long as I can remember I’ve hated my body it’s a mess. I used to be quite fit before I started remote working (walking 5 miles a day does that) but it all fell apart and then COVID hit and I just never really recovered.

Lot’s going on in this one, not a lot fixed though! Enjoy. Homelab Specs # In all the the years I’ve been doing this I’m not actually sure I’ve ever put the specs of my machines down. Not because I’m hiding it, I just don’t really know anymore. A lot of the equipment has been gathered over the years and once it’s running I just leave it.

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.