As part of my public homelab setup, one of the services I configured was a mail server! I got started with around a month ago, and have been running a bare minimum setup for a week. Here are some notes about the configuration process....

I haven’t been able to make progress on my homelab. The setup was all local and I was mostly working on my own, so it wasn’t as fun to work on after a point. I also started overthinking parts of the setup, which is ironical since the...

I have been visiting some websites out of habit that don’t make me feel great, so I started looking for website blocker apps. In the process of doing so, an easier solution came to mind - editing the /etc/hosts file. I opened /etc/hosts,...

This site has moved from pjg1.site to orgnizedmess.net! I’ve been thinking of making this move from at least a year, and a recent price hike for the previous domain ($26.24 -> $28.84) finally made me switch. The new name comes from a...

I’ve tried quite a few systems and tools to manage my projects and ideas, and switching gets tiring. I don’t think I’ll stop switching anytime soon though, so here are some guidelines to help me choose which tools to use whenever I feel...

I read a few posts around personal websites and how to make it easier to make one, and a common theme emerged: the existing tools to create one’s own site (mainly referring to static site generators and self-hosting) are too...

I briefly mentioned the network setup in a post about starting my homelab, but wanted to describe the steps I took to get connectivity to the machine and the VMs within it. Proxmox creates a basic network configuration during...

Joel Dueck in Publishing Nerds (via): […] Publishing nerds end up as inveterate yak shavers and one-man bands performing in their own driveways. Our ingrained preference to control all levels of design, and the facility which computers...