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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
Been working on three projects this past week.
Been cleaning up my file storage. I used to run a NAS with 250GB capacity in RAID1, plus a 2 TB /sdb drive. I upgraded my NAS to 4TB capacity in RAID1, so reorganizing my files on /sdb since they became a mess, and then will store them on my NAS.
Been experimenting with Jellyfin on my homelab server. Been pretty stable with a single user, so will probably continue running it. Especially since I have no plans to have it run with more users at the moment. I may try and get my hands on a low power GPU that runs off of only PCIE power, but unsure if my plan for that will end up panning out. Another area to improve is it seems like CPU load on my proxmox server is pretty low, but RAM usage is pretty high. I considered upgrading the RAM, but felt that the DDR3 prices I was seeing was too high, so will pass on that. If I end up getting that GPU, then I reduce CPU demand, and RAM will really start to become the bottleneck on my server so might reconsider then.
Been starting work again on my recipe website I was working on to learn React/improve my portfolio. I read a comment on here a while back about how someone found having good test coverage useful for personal projects, especially when having large breaks between working on it. So I have started working on getting test coverage on the API to begin with. I was using Bruno to do manual verification of my API, and yesterday I saw that there is some testing functionality within Bruno. I figured out the basics of doing Bruno tests, but am not the biggest fan of it so I need to research better tools for testing an API
I'm continuing my homelab work and I just recently sorted out how to use services and timers on two of my servers for periodic update + upgrade, and a reboot.
I have a headless Pi 4 and Orin AGX, and occasionally they'll just seemingly freeze up and need a power cycle to reboot, since SSHing in doesn't work.
The Pi hasn't been rebooted in months I think, so maybe that's understandable, but the AGX needs a reboot every couple of weeks I think.
Now I have the Pi, AGX, and also an old Synology NAS on a reboot cycle every few days until I have more time and knowledge to troubleshoot the issues.
NAS. The 8 drives I got from seagate all have problems so returning those. Also familiarizing myself with how to really point things at it and back it up. Looking into paperless-ngx as well for better file storage/sorting.
Home Assistant. Was looking into getting into some light smart home stuff (literally just getting the lights on it). Dear god I hate it. This feels way more complex than it should be and often very poorly explained.
More AI testing. I've been poking at it on and off. Again looking for areas in which it might improve things that I haven't already identified. Mostly unimpressed still.
my friend bought a supermicro CSE-847 for his NAS so the past three weeks have been a lot of doing stuff with that. god it weighed a ton with 24 drives in…
he’s got proxmox with jellyfin and nextcloud on it and to be honest, it’s a beast of a machine. i love it
Just got a Meshtastic device (Wio Tracker L1 Pro) an am honestly very impressed with the ease of use of the device and applications! Adoption is of course limited, but as a HAM I am very familiar haha. It's pretty cool that my mesh after 1 day extends 65 miles (over 3 hops) as the crow flies.
A phone with this technology would be cool one day...
Additionally playing with adding more services to my home server, an IRC server would be cool albeit underutilized. Matrix and XMPP would also be cool, but in my limited testing with public instances I just don't know if it's worth it. I wish the new Freenet project had a docker node option.