Blog

Welcome to my blog. This is where I will document all of my latest homelab projects, philosophy essays, and reviews. I have a wide variety of interests and this site lets me explore them all. If anything jumps out at you, I'm always happy to discuss them.

Everything is given to us on loan

Posted on 10th Jul 2023

"Never say about anything, 'I've lost it,' but rather, 'I've given it back.' Your child has died? It has been given back. Your wife has died? She has been given back. 'My farm has been taken from me.’ Well, that too has been given back. 'Yes, but the man who took it is a rogue.' What does it matte...

Obligations or opportunities?

Posted on 3rd Jul 2023

"So also in our case, we picture the work of the philosopher as being something like this, that he should adapt his own will to what comes about so that nothing happens against our will, and so that nothing fails to happen when we want it to happen." Epictetus, Discourses, 2.14.7 I have st...

Routing a Deluge Docker container’s traffic through a VPN tunnel

Posted on 1st Apr 2023

A video from Novaspirit Tech inspired this project, which I tweaked to my particular needs. Credit goes to Don for showing me how to get started on this, and that it was even possible. Basically, I have the ability to route all of my Docker traffic through a virtual private network (VPN). That mea...

Proxying Docker containers on a separate VLAN

Proxying Docker containers on a separate VLAN

Posted on 1st Jul 2023

I'd like to start this off by clearly stating that I'm not a network engineer, nor do I know how to be one. That said, however, a project idea came to me one day as I thought about breaking myself free from Cloudflare Tunnels. I built a weird setup with a Raspberry Pi, Nginx Proxy Manager, a sepa...

Setting up Kobo sync with Calibre Web

Posted on 1st Jul 2023

There I was, minding my own business downloading ebooks from my Calibre server to my Kobo Libra 2 via the web browser when I stumbled upon a comment. This comment, courtesy of a now unknown Redditor, briefly mentioned something I'd never heard of. Apparently, Calibre Web, the very service I used to...