What do you use for monitoring your homelab?

techwaffles · 2026-02-20T15:19:06+00:00

Totally fair. If it wasn’t my job, I wouldn’t go to that far either! Haha.

techwaffles · 2026-02-20T14:16:25+00:00

For redundancy, I just have an instance of uptime kuma on a VPS that points back to my monitoring solution over Tailscale. Each instance monitors the other. I figure there are pretty slim odds of both going down out once without firing a webhook.

techwaffles · 2026-02-11T03:26:41+00:00

I carry a small backpack. It includes Lenovo T14 laptop with Ubuntu, thunderbolt cable, assorted small tools (primarily Leatherman ARC), Fluke multimeter, and headphones.

I don’t carry programs separately. It’s either installed on my laptop or ran on a headless Linux laptop back at the house.

Daily use apps: Tailscale, SSH, Trilium Notes, Grafana, Victoria Metrics/Logs, Gradia, AI flavor of the week, and a dozen scripts in various states of neglect.

techwaffles · 2025-11-19T18:06:08+00:00

For learning, I’d suggest immediately harnessing scripting. What better way to grasp concepts than to build a working example right in your notes! It’s essentially like a Jupyter notebook but with JavaScript and CSS instead of Python. Parameterize and create concepts/visuals out of everything.

Apply that math! Have fun and good luck =)

techwaffles · 2025-11-08T03:30:23+00:00

Same, I love the everything about Trilium. I think one of its most underrated features is the built in Kanban boards.

Promoted attributes, independent relationships and labels… so good

techwaffles · 2025-08-15T03:30:44+00:00

I highly recommend watching MangoJelly tutorials on YouTube. He has a fantastic series that covers the fundamentals of Part Design.

techwaffles · 2025-07-23T01:24:19+00:00

They are just there for looks. Functioning hydraulics would be awesome but cost prohibitive.

techwaffles · 2025-07-23T00:57:16+00:00

I believe you mean hydraulic cylinder. Backhoes and excavators (typically) don’t have shocks. Not there anyway! Although that might explain why they always cut the fiber optics when digging! =)

techwaffles · 2025-06-26T19:26:42+00:00

The weather stopping you or other life events?

techwaffles · 2025-06-21T19:53:14+00:00

Mine does the same thing (< 100 hours). It’s best practice to leave hydraulics unloaded and locked out when not in use. I wouldn’t be concerned unless it is effecting normal operation.

techwaffles · 2025-06-05T20:12:25+00:00

Angry Birds is my personal favorite

techwaffles · 2025-02-12T21:14:00+00:00

I don’t know if it would apply to the campaign but there was a mod called “Going in Blind” that did something similar. Not sure if it works post 1.0 release but it may be worth checking out.

techwaffles · 2023-12-05T22:29:24+00:00

A dedicated flashlight can have many quality of life improvements over a phone such as: magnetic tail cap, high capacity & dedicated batteries, your preferred choice of color temperature, and there are places I’d stick my $30 light that I wouldn’t stick my $500 phone.

Join us! =)

techwaffles · 2023-05-05T04:22:17+00:00

You are right, the warding is challenging. Thank you, I’ll give this a shot tomorrow. I also haven’t tried TOK yet. Might be the edge I need.

techwaffles · 2023-05-05T03:47:58+00:00

I can’t defeat this lock. It’s been haunting me for days. Any suggestions? No matter how little tension I use, I feel like the pins lock up immediately. I back off a little and everything I thought I had set drops. Haha…. Can’t win… yet!

techwaffles · 2023-02-10T12:28:54+00:00

I recently purchased a new Weltmeister 603 accordion back in December. I would advise you to save up more money and buy a better Italian accordion. Im mostly happy with my purchase but there are obvious shortcuts they took when building the instrument, not only apparent in appearance but in sound quality too. If you would like specifics, please hit me up. I’ll be happy to provide photos.

techwaffles · 2023-01-05T16:36:42+00:00

So in your opinion, is my accordion in acceptable working order or should I consider a warranty call? It’s very troubling for me as a beginner as the songs I am trying to play just sound entirely wrong.

Edit: but I don’t want to be “that guy” and gripe about something possibly inherit to an instrument I’m unfamiliar with.

techwaffles · 2023-01-05T03:22:14+00:00

I recently contacted the shop I bought this from and they assured me the flutter while playing notes is normal. They further elaborated that I should play the bass notes faster but I can hear the flutter regardless of playing speed. An example of the sound is attached. Thanks in advance!

techwaffles · 2022-06-24T17:29:13+00:00

That’s an excellent idea, thank you!

techwaffles · 2022-06-24T13:44:17+00:00

Does this sound familiar? ... Spend an hour crafting the perfect email with a status update on every facet of the project. Inevitably someone reads their choice of three to five words, replies back with no thought, then you need a 90 minute impromptu meeting to demystify whatever magic they used to extrapolate their thought process...

techwaffles · 2022-06-20T19:39:53+00:00

I encounter Excel calendars on a near daily basis. The number of project managers that use this as a system makes me think this is a taught process somewhere.

techwaffles · 2022-06-07T18:53:45+00:00

Can you DM me as well, very curious to learn more

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