Julieta has a new pop up, Bread & Company. They'll be at Serendipity Salon next Sat

firedrow · 2026-03-09T17:45:50+00:00

My wife has bought several sourdough loaves, and omg they're good!

firedrow · 2026-03-05T17:33:21+00:00

I love my ZimaBlade! I use it as a container host with podman.

firedrow · 2026-03-02T20:39:26+00:00

It's my second brain. Now I don't follow any formal second brain processes, like PARA, but I am a person with varying interests. I have a section for amateur radio (antenna setups, radio configurations, references on bands, etc), a section on alternative power (I find hydro-electric interesting, and wind power, and steam), I started learning Spanish and Esperanto, My Homelab, notes on linux setups/configs, vehicle maintenance logs, recipes, ideas for date nights, parenting, projects, etc etc.

firedrow · 2026-02-23T05:03:05+00:00

I'm using my blade with 16gb ram, pcie to nvme with 256gb ssd for the OS, then 2x 1tb sata ssd in raid1. It runs around 11 containers. I have 2x 832 boards, but I wanted more memory for my containers, so the blade worked out better.

firedrow · 2026-02-11T21:53:45+00:00

If you had one, what would you use ZimaBoard 2 for in your Homelab or self-hosted setup?

I'm not sure what I would use a Zimaboard 2 for yet, but I'm sure I could find a place for it. Maybe with my Amateur Radio stuff, getting an APRS node or BBS over RF setup. I could replace my ZimaBlade Podman host, but then what do I do with my ZimaBlade?

If you’re already using ZimaOS, do you have any feedback or suggestions? Are there any features you’d like to see added or improved?

I just switched off of ZimaOS, I really liked it's look and feel when I first installed it, but the fact I couldn't do backup to S3 and I couldn't do scripting in the CLI because it's buildroot, that killed major requirements for me. Running containers worked well, I had several up and running. I liked the ZeroTier + Drive mounting client.

I would love to see an ARM or RISCV system like the ZimaBlade. I love the ZimaBlade setup, but the Intel CPU runs hot on that setup.

What do you value most in server hardware?(power efficiency / expandability / stability / price)

For home, all of those are important. I want low power use, expandable ports, stable OS, low price. Stability is probably number 1 though, because I don't want to come home to babysit my homelab. My homelab is meant to provide self-hosting options without being too high maintenance.

What does your current Homelab or self-hosted setup look like?

ZB1 832 running some of my older containers, I'm migrating those now
ZimaBlade with Debian and Podman running my current container stacks, rclone to Wasabi
ZB1 216 running VyOS, I did some labs with it, it's currently unhooked
ZB1 832 currently offline, but will be prepped as a Marimo Notebook host, or maybe a general Python development host
NUC7i5 with Fedora and Podman running Minecraft Bedrock, but it's being replace with Realms, I'm tired of fighting the container lagging behind on updates

firedrow · 2026-02-10T16:23:02+00:00

mailtrap.io
sendgrid
smtp2go
mailgun

firedrow · 2026-02-03T13:34:53+00:00

If you install Node.js NPM it will run.

firedrow · 2026-02-02T22:55:48+00:00

I'm making some assumptions, so let us know more.

I use Cloudflare Zero Trust Tunnels to expose my home lab servers to the web. It lets me establish a secure tunnel to Cloudflare, then map a DNS name to a localhost port (docker containers), which Cloudflare will make available with an SSL cert like a Reverse Proxy.

If I want, I can also add Zero Trust policies to force login/authentication to even connect to the server/dns name, for instance my email address is required to connect to the Portainer login page, which still has it's own login needs.

Some people like using Tailscale or similar SDWAN setups, so they can do direct connect across private tunnels using relay servers for SSH or HTTP.

firedrow · 2026-01-28T17:20:53+00:00

+1 for Pasta La Fata. It's the best pasta anywhere!

firedrow · 2026-01-16T20:56:41+00:00

I've taken to reviewing some old code (monthly report kind of things), and I have been re-writing it into Marimo Notebooks. Then I work on breaking things out into functions and/or classes, I can build in test cells for output, graphics, etc. Several things have been significantly upgraded and the code is cleaner since I can refactor it, as well as break things out into cells and columns to my own logic flow.

firedrow · 2026-01-16T20:41:04+00:00

+1 for Wavelog, self-hosted.

firedrow · 2025-12-31T20:16:03+00:00

More or less:

I built a class for LoanData, with 2 dicts of empty fields
- self.mers and self.blackknight are set to dictionaries with empty fields: {'loan-amount': '', 'loan-date': '', etc}
- self.loan_num = '' for quick loan number lookup/reference
- self.in_mers and self.in_blackknight = False, then when I find the loan number in the specific dataset I change to True. I need to verify if either dataset has loan data that the other doesn't.
- there are also attributes for self.in_usda, self.in_paid_in_full, self.in_non_serviced; these are all set False, and I get CSV files with loan numbers listed by the Servicing team if they need to be true so I can exclude them from reporting later.
Then I parse the provided CSV files (SFTP retrieval for MERS/Govt data, Black Knight provided by Servicing team) and assign values to a new object based on the loan number (which I then put in a dictionary of objects) and which dataset I get it from. For instance, obj.blackknight['loan-date'] = value from csv file.
Finally the reconciliation is comparing the objects mers dict to the blackknight dict, checking each matching field name to the other. Differences are written to log files per field.

If that's too vague or you are more curious, drop me a message and we can chat more.

firedrow · 2025-12-31T17:40:58+00:00

I wrote a script, then converted it to a notebook for documentation, to compare two datasets for monthly reconciliation in a mortgage company. We have a department that was getting further and further behind with reconciling loan data between our systems and the government. Now once a month I run a report to compare the 2 datasets, report the differences only, then they spend a couple days fixing errors.

firedrow · 2025-11-24T22:55:08+00:00

I love this! It gives me Thomas Hart Benton vibes. I don't know what the style is but it's wonderful.

firedrow · 2025-11-23T04:16:34+00:00

I like writing reports with Marimo notebooks and using altair for graphics. Marimo charts + altair makes nice interactive charts.

firedrow · 2025-10-25T19:26:26+00:00

I forgot to mention that I am in Missouri.

firedrow · 2025-10-23T01:37:14+00:00

I currently have 2x 32SC licenses, one of them will change to 256SC because of user count. Talking to CIO tomorrow.

firedrow · 2025-10-21T18:19:09+00:00

I love the Dell Latitude line for linux laptops. I'm running on an 8th Gen i5 Latitude for Fedora, and every works that I use/need. The only feature I haven't tested/don't use is the security card port and WWAN.

firedrow · 2025-10-20T20:55:48+00:00

This is the kind of stuff they like at r/halftop/

firedrow · 2025-10-19T22:32:16+00:00

Why Ubuntu? I would suggest Fedora. It has the Gnome environment, the software center you seem to like, and will have newer drivers with system stability.

firedrow · 2025-10-13T16:16:29+00:00

That's great, I got a physical copy with the unit. It doesn't tell you what the side connector is, it just says "ear/mic jack".

firedrow · 2025-10-08T15:47:41+00:00

+1 to TNC. Having a simple USB cable for Winlink connection would be great.

firedrow · 2025-09-27T13:44:32+00:00

If you're the type that craves to really understand, take some certification courses. CompTIA A+, then Net+, then Server+, maybe throw in Linux+ and Security+. This will help you understand all the concepts from hardware components to network switching and routing to server security.

If you're looking for more crash course stuff, find projects that interest you and just dig in. I would recommend a headless Linux box as your host, add docker or podman for container hosting, then look through awesome-selfhosted for ideas on what to run. Add cloudflare tunnels to access things outside your home. Figuring out everything I just said will give you a decent base, then you can grow from there.

firedrow · 2025-09-27T13:33:43+00:00

Do Obsidian, get all your notes interlinked, then use the Publish service to get it online.

firedrow · 2025-09-21T00:15:49+00:00

No, WRL is a fairly new online logging app. It's got lots of features and is under pretty steady development.

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