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we’re still snanding..

new host got an NVME ssd with enough capacity to migrate immich. moved infrastructure over to it and spun it all back up. man docker makes things easy.

now, if I can just figure out my immich restore issues, DB seems fairly screwed but works just fine in “production.” at least I have a system I can mess with though.

puts snand’s server budget just slightly below $200. 60 bucks for a used dell 3050 and another 130 for a 2 tb NVME ssd. considering I spend that a month in electricity, I’m hoping this proves a more budget-worthy solution. then again it’s probably not snand, it’s probably my homebrew NAS. I’d love to move to ssd there as well but 30tb is going to break the budget a bit. snand’s old host will need a new home I guess, maybe I need a desktop again in the upcoming basement maker space.

sorry for the downtime

snand experienced issues this AM. the issues were with it’s admin, forgetting that the tunnel container needs to be on the same network as the wordpress container and traffic manager. guess I will include a cloudflare compose project afterall so I don’t forget this again.

snand is on the move.

in an effort to cut down power consumption, snand has moved from it’s previous overpowered host to a brand spanking old dell micro pc. used to be one of the nodes of me¹ test kubernetes cluster but I’ve got that on hold for now so using the little guys for low powered servers.

anyway, snand currently is living in the game cabinet, next to the TV. once I have a couple more services migrated, I’ll stash it away in the dusty corner of the basement where it belongs!

while I’m at it, I’m making it all reproducable through stupid simple scripts and docker compose. I’m intentionally keeping this on the stupid simple side but it’s all here.

ha! kids are watching spongebob, guess ol’ Mr. Krabs rubbed off on me.
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snand is back!

snand.org has been blocked by my employer’s web filter for the last few weeks. I get it, this junk is awfully dangerous.

I kid, I get it, a site that runs in my basement and tries to fly under the radar isn’t exactly a necessary corporate destination. still, feels good that I can see and post to my own junk again.

things are going ok these days. I think my brain pills are finally kicking in, might grow back one of these days. work is ok, at least feel like my shoes are finally on anyway. not much to share which is why this place has been kinda quiet (except for my political fearmongering). the summer of 2024 has been a rebuilding one, basement, sump, kids bedroom, professionally, family, etc. I wish I had more fun to talk about but this is the slog part of life that I need to get through.

happy belated cake day snand..

https://www.snand.org/2023/07/hello-snand/

1 year and 8 days ago this garbage hit the tubes. the community that has developed has been astonishing, we’ve become the #1 destination for middle aged dorks who live in my house, well, at least one of them.

I need to do more with this junk. if anyone has a suggestion, leave me a comment (waiting with bated breath).

search is dying

I’m not sure if my vast audience has noticed but search these days just plain sucks. if you aren’t presented with 10 pages of ads, you may instead be served up whatever google’s or microsoft’s hallucination engines invent for you. you may have seen my recent post or some of my other ramblings about the glorious future we inhabit, but this article I recently found was pretty eye opening:

https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes

so, I think this is enough motivation for me to see about taking matters into my own hands. so, I’ve taken it as a snand project and put up a POC: https://search.dnans.org. It’s likely terrible as it’s just a bare, default install, but hopefully I can spend some time on it to make it part of the snand family of services.

they keep enshittifying, so I’ll keep on rollin’ my own. if it sucks, at least it can suck on my own terms.

posting from 33,000 feet

snand has taken to the sky. ok, not really, I just think it’s kinda cool that I’m on an airplane, posting from my phone, to my website, that runs in my basement.

well, pretty much confirms how much of a nerd I am 🤓

update- well this was a hell of an article to read while high (get it).

update2 – ha, there’s just something that makes me feel good about seeing my phone image backup from midair (I run my own immich instance). simply astonishing what is possible these days.

hack us.

in case anyone wants details on the machine that hosts this garbage: https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/09/dell_data_stolen

there goes more of my financial information. I watched a lot of scifi as a kid, I expected more flying cars and less identity theft from the future. oh well, we live in the one we got.

snand is rebuilding.

literally, humming away right this moment.

apologies for the stock photo but you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all.

the great flood of 2023 took out all my printers leaving me with just the Sovol SV04 which is the tinker device and is currently non-functional. I have been planning on getting back in the game but as usual I spent too much time over analyzing. on Friday I bit the bullet and just got the dream device.

so far this thing is pure nuts, I really don’t know what to think though, 3D printing has always been about tinkering, upgrading and almost constantly fixing. this new snandbot is almost too good, there’s just not much I need to do to it and it prints better than any printer I’ve ever had. I don’t feel like I can take pride in my prints since the settings just dial themselves in. it’s going to change the game around these parts, maybe I can actually tackle a project that isn’t an upgrade.

I say that while snandbot is currently busy printing parts for a small upgrade to itself. *sigh*, the world feels right.

snand is opening it’s source..

opening up the garbage that builds this garbage. it’s complete amateur hour here but in the off chance anyone is curious for a peek under the hood: https://github.com/gpeterson78/snand.org

there isn’t much there yet but it will grow as I test and clean up everything before I embarass myself even more.

update- what the heck, let’s turn this one into a blog post.

this is a weirdly big step for me to open up one of my repos to the public. I’m not in any way shape or form a developer; hell, I can barely write a functional .bat file. I’m a network and/or systems engineer turned architect by trade and so most of my work has been in various commandlines, reading and writing config files for routers, switches, SANs, virtualizing everything and then automating it. eventually I got my container feet wet by taking a leap straight off a highdive with a full on build of a ‘production’ kubernetes platform. then I ran a group to build our AWS infrastructure before arriving at my current (absolutely wonderful) job.

so, I’ve never been a developer, I’ve certainly been in charge of folks are, and I’ve read a lot of code, edited some and banged out a lot of lazy admin scripts. however, nothing of mine has been seen by anyone other than tech support on the other side of the world.

so, putting this out there in public makes me feel kinda sheepish. but what else am I doing all this for, but to learn and grow and maybe inspire (I’ve got three developing nerds to set an example for). plus, it’s a good way to force myself to follow better practices (gotta stay safe and I want it to work). no, it’s not code, it’s not even devops, it’s just a collection of scripts and docker garbage that keeps this garbage out of the dump. but I’m not the kind of guy who stands still, so we’ll see what else happens.