📙 Introduction # This will be a story about how a git push containing an Ansible firewall role went out to my self-hosted CI runner and subsequently not only took down every service I host, but locked me out of every single one of my servers.

🎬 Intro # This post will be about how you can easily clone MIFARE Classic cards with a Proxmark3 device. I have long been interested in how RFID works and the security behind it and the Proxmark3 is a great tool for this.

🎬 Intro # Pocket ID is a lightweight, self-hosted OIDC provider that’s perfect for homelabs. It’s simple, it’s clean, and it doesn’t try to be everything to everyone. What it doesn’t have, however, is SCIM support and that’s where things get a bit spicy when integrating with vCenter Server.

🎬 Intro # This is kind of a part 5 of my 100TB NAS project/series, well, it is and it isn’t but I’ve included it as part 5 regardless.

🤦 Intro - The rantings of a muffn # As usual, I’m doing substantial yapping before the guide, if you don’t like reading and/or know what you’re doing, jump to the guide Here we are again. Politicians making laws about technology they fundamentally don’t understand, wrapped up in the classic “think o...

🎬 Intro # vSAN is something I’ve been pretty enamored with for a long time, since it was first becoming a thing. Hyperconverged was the buzzword at the time and as someone just coming up in the industry, I knew it was something I wanted to mess with, and I did.

🎬 Intro # Look, cheap and mini are subjective so this may not be what you might imagine when you read the title, but, subjectively, this build is mini for an 8 bay NAS with this kind of hardware and objectively, it’s cheap. An off the shelf NAS with this many bays can’t even be found close to this p...

Below are some of the projects I have been working on that I am most proud of. Awesome Mini PC # My attempt to create a catalog of mini PCs and similar systems. Built to be simple and usable, with data being the focus Awesome Mini PC is something new for me which I continue to spend too much time on...

This is the definitive guide to MANS - I truly outdid myself with the yapping on this one. 🎯 Introduction # MANS (Muffin’s Awesome NAS Stack) is a flexible, efficient approach to building a NAS that prioritizes storage efficiency and ease of expansion over redundancy, managed through Ansible. MANS a...

You can skip my yapping and jump to the fix. 🎬 Intro # In my apartment, I have an ESXi host that runs some local services including my router/firewall. vCenter is located offsite, which is fine, usually. All my hosts run vDS, and this just caused me a massive headache when doing some maintenance.

📔 Intro # Anyone who’s tried torrenting over VPN knows it can be a bit of a pain. Sure, basic setups work - connect to VPN, start downloading, done. But if you want proper speeds and proper seeding ratios, there’s a bit more to it than that.

🎬 Intro # As I age throughout this life, my priorities are changing. Some might dismiss this as paranoia, but it’s undeniable that our privacy is at greater risk than ever before.

🎬 Intro # I’ve recently been looking to move all my firewalls from pfSense VMs and Mikrotik hardware to OPNsense. Virtual pfSense has been great for me over many, many years and all the benefits a VM brings to a firewall have helped a lot, such as hypervisor level HA and snapshots. These days, howev...

AI Usage # AI tools are used in my content for two purposes: Generating featured images for certain blog posts. Proofreading certain sections of my writing for spelling and grammatical errors. I have no intention/interest in using AI tools to generate written content for this blog. All thoughts, opi...

🎬 The Plan # I’m dubbing this setup and its configuration ✨ MANS ✨, Muffin’s Awesome NAS Stack.

📔 Intro # This post will be a tutorial on how to get rclone working on Synology’s DSM and enable one/two-way sync between your Synology device and an rclone compatible cloud backend.

🎬 Intro # Feature creep is a hell of a drug. Before my NAS build had even 1 hour of uptime I decided I would entirely change how I was planning to use the NAS and so some things had to be changed.

🎬 Intro # Cheap cloud storage is dead. :saluting_face: Storing vast amounts of data in the cloud at an affordable price is currently not feasible. Although it served its purpose for a while, I’ve decided to just build my own dang cloud again.

📔 Intro # Recently I have been experiencing some odd behaviour in my new whitebox ESXI server build. I had a GTX 1080 in the server passed through to an Ubuntu VM for GPU accelerated decoding/encoding with modified drivers to work around Nvidia’s ‘fuck you’ limitations.

This is an image heavy post. 📔 Intro # My 3D printing journey started like many others, with an Ender 3 (Pro in my case) and covid lockdowns. I had wanted to get into it much earlier but a tiny apartment stopped me from doing so.

📜 Intro # Recently, when I have tried to SSH to vCenter I have been getting the following:

📔 Intro # When I got my Steamdeck in mid-2022, I couldn’t find a way to stream my Xbox to my Steamdeck locally which sucks because I use my Xbox far less than I should.

📔 Intro # I no longer use Goatcounter. I instead use Umami. This tutorial will still work if you wish you use Goattcounter though. I just posted about how I migrated from WordPress to Hugo here:

📔 Intro # When I started this blog in 2015 it was more to learn than to actually write anything. WordPress was easy enough to set up and maintain along with the plethora of plugins to mess with.

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👋 Intro # I finally took a big leap in my life and said a giant ‘fuck you’ to landlords and decided to buy my first place in London.

This is nothing new, sadly # This is not a new build. This post is simply a short and sweet build post repackaging the build I did a few years ago into something much smaller to fit ‘properly’ into my apartment rack. That post is here:

Intro # POV - Your Mighty is dead and the charger is gonezo. This is not a good situation.

Intro # This post will be a simple guide on how to upgrade your Cisco Nexus 9000 switch.

🕊️ RIP Unlimited Plex: Gone Too Soon # Whilst this posts methodology is still sound, there are no longer any options for reasonable amounts of cloud storage for cheap. You should go buy some drives or something, that’s what I’ve done, see below.      Part 1: Building A 'Mini' 100TB NAS 28 September ...