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Improving an Ikea lantern with a Cricut Joy - for Hallowe'en

Just over a year ago, I was given a Cricut joy. During that time, I've gotten to grips with the software and it has helped quite a few projects become a reality. I have used the Joy from things like sencils for painting Warhammer models to making T-Shirts.

FreePBX and Zen Digital Voice

As part of a money saving effort along with improving my internet speeds, I needed to do something with the telephone number coming in to my house. Fortunately, I have been playing with Asterisk for quite a few years now.

Updating docker hosts with Kestra

Patching is a balancing act. There are some who say you shouldn't if it works, others who say you should, but stay a certain about of time behind and those that think that bleed edge is the way to stay protected.

More Kestra Automation

While I am working through some issues and they may well be the subject of another post, this time I thought I'd shamelessly extend what I have done before extended with some of Christian Lempa's files.

Kestra webhooks and Home assistant

Welcome back to another blog post on Kestra. Starting from where I left off last time, I'm going to try to fix a few little niggles I had with the time based triggers.

Automating Ansible playbooks with Kestra

Recently, after watch Christian Lempa videos, I have started playing about with Kestra. Kestra is a work flow orcestration platform to schedule playbooks or tirgger them when I want them. Example using unpackerr.

Smart doorbell failure #2?

Following on from my failure to detect my doorbell button being pushed, I considered a few different alternatives solutions. The first solution to spring to mind was to use a zigbee button.

Monitoring DMARC with Docker

In this post, I deploy a docker container via docker compose and ansible to read my dmarc reports.

Using ansible to deploy a gitlab runner.

After deploying watchtower to one of my docker instances, I noticed that it was having issues with restarting the container. The actual fault turned out to be the networking with portainer, but in the meantime, I wrote an ansible playbook to redeploy / restart the container.

Deploying Plex with docker and ansible

After deploying watchtower to one of my docker instances, I noticed that it was having issues with restarting the container. The actual fault turned out to be the networking with portainer, but in the meantime, I wrote an ansible playbook to redeploy / restart the container.