nixos Featured Cloudy NixOS (OpenStack) Recently, I decided to go down the journey of running things with NixOS. While I started with my laptop, I naturally decided to make my workspace problems part of my cloud adventure. So I figured I'd share my adventure along with my initial process for getting NixOS into
cloud Featured Confessions of a Cloud Someone Save Us from Our Cloudy Judgments Here I am, sitting before a digital abyss, armed with nothing but a questionable sense of humor and journaling (yes with real paper, you wouldn't understand). I've been reading a lot lately and thinking about my life choices. Sadly,
openstack Featured OpenStack’s Phoenix Act: (re)Rising from today's cloud ashes In the grand theatre of cloud computing, where titans clash, and the audience (cloud operators) get to deal with the aftermath, a plot twist has recently unfolded that could be straight out of a daytime soap opera. Enter stage left: Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has thrown a wrench into
openstack Featured New Game Plus - Resurgence: (re)taking the cloud by storm It's been a couple months, so I'm checking in to talk about how NG+ at Rackspace has been going, things I've learned, where some issues have been, and alluding to where we're going as this next chapter gets underway. * Yes, the cloud
rackspace Featured New Game Plus - Rackspace So I've once again decided to pivot, this time bringing things back home, back to the Cloud, back to where my professional career began - Rackspace. Over the past 18 months, I've been working with Figment, a fantastic startup building Web3 infrastructure. While my team at
desk Featured Working my Workspace So you're here about my home office and a picture of a desk, or maybe you're curious how I smashed four computers into one workspace without creating a mess? Maybe you want to know why anyone would want to use four computers? Maybe you've
teleport Featured Teleport for Ansible with ARA This post aims to highlight the power of Teleport applications and show how it can massively simplify life by providing access to centralized collaborative systems which are otherwise inaccessible. If you're wondering what ARA is I recommend reading up on it. The TL;DR is ARA Records Ansible
ara Featured ARA for Debian Are you ready for a quick post on how to deploy ARA on a Debian 11 server? Of course you are, you SuperChadGPT, leetcode, automaton. To bring the miracle of ARA to life we'll reach down in the primordial package manager to setup MariaDB and Gunicorn; a perfect
teleport Featured Teleport Application for Unifi Welcome to the world of remote work, where every day feels like a never-ending nightmare. But fear not! With the power of Teleport and its application gateway, you can make being trapped in a dark windowless room, fun. While Teleport is an incredible server access tool, it can also be
ghost Featured Our Ghost has Migrated Today marks day one of no longer running my own cloud infrastructure. This is the first time in more than a decade where I'm public cloud free. I've decided to declutter myself and pushed everything local or to managed solutions. In terms of my blog, we&
teleport Mitogen and Teleport Ansible If you've read my post covering the marriage between Teleport and Ansible, It's only natural that you think, how do we make it fast, more capable, moar better? Mitogen is the answer; we use Mitogen to make our deployments sing. TL;DR * Run Mitogen. It works.
ansible Featured Teleport Driven Ansible Dynamic Inventory While there are a million ways to build Ansible inventory, what if we could build inventory using open-source access systems and not have to main multiple sources of truth?
shure Featured Shure MV7 Windscreen Tests Running a quick windscreen test to see what the sound differences are with the Shure MV7 using the stock foam windscreen versus an "upgraded" RK345 windscreen (normally found on the Shure SM7b). Background I've recently been doing all kinds of things with audio for my home
blue Featured Fixing The Blue Compass Boom Arm The Blue Compass is a fantastic tube-style broadcast microphone boom arm with one major flaw, the handles are made from cheap plastic and will break with use. If you have a Blue Compass and one of your plastic handles has broken off making it impossible to tighten and secure your
streaming Featured We're Affiliated, Now What? As of 24 February, 2021, the Requiem has officially been affiliated. So first and foremost, thank you all for helping make this happen. Whether you're stopping by and saying "hi" or following the channel, our momentum is made possible by you. So, what does all this
breakfast Featured Making Sourdough Waffles This recipe is used to make sourdough waffles, from scratch, using a recently feed sourdough starter. Ingredients * 142 Grams all-purpose flour * 28 Grams granulated sugar * 1 teaspoon baking powder * 1 teaspoon salt * 2 eggs * 170 Grams milk * 226 Grams sourdough starter * 2 Tablespoons unsalted butter (melted) Instruction 1. In a
streaming Live Gamer Duo: It's Two Times Better Than It Should Be When I started my stream, I knew I needed a capture card; however, I had no idea which capture-card I needed. I did some googling and found that USB connected capture cards were the most recommended devices on the internet and everything came down to either the Elgato HD60s or
streaming Featured Multi-Streaming with Windows, built on the WSL for FREE Getting Started To accomplish this mission you'll need to install the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). I will not be covering the install process here, it is well documented by Microsoft, and is really a matter of running basically 3 commands. note for WSL version 2 (recommended) you
obs OBS Settings for high-end Streaming This quick post is being made to highlight some OBS settings to enable better quality streaming, with dedicated graphics adapters. My stream is being built on some older gear, but the setting depicted here are not exclusive to my use-case. If you're streaming and looking for that edge
streaming Featured Single PC streaming: explained and simplified Ever wanted to stream gameplay from a single PC? Ever tried and failed? In this video, I will show how you can utilize a single PC to stream and game simultaneously. I have seen big name streamers try and fail at single PC streaming, I have also seen streamers with
streaming Featured Complete Streamer Setup Mutterings from a streaming N00B As you'll see, many of these components are OLD; some are VERY OLD. However, this post's point shows how I'm streaming and highlights how high-quality, low latency streaming is possible with repurposed gear. I also hope this list of
ufc Featured UFC - The Champ is here! Today we're in the hunt. We're going to attempt to move up weight classes, and bring the pain to an entirely new class of fighter. Lets see if we can finish up our career with a bang, build our burgeoning community, knock some fools out, and
ufc Unifi'ing the data as we defend our new title After an evening full of knockouts, glitches, crashes, and joy we're digging into the data. Seeing what it takes to stream in HD to three sources, and how best to enhance our stream using the power of left over graphics cards. Tonight we fight, then we learn, then
ufc UFC4 - Can you hear me now!? We're going loud on our road to being a CHAMP. Coming off the heals of two grueling victories, our shot at the title in imminent! We're going live tonight at 18:00 Central (11:00 UTC). UFC4 - Can you hear me now!? (part 1) We&
kvm Featured Fixing MSR 0xe1 to 0x0 When running KVM in a nested virtualization you may run into the following error when attempting to launch machines. Example errors qemu-system-x86_64: error: failed to set MSR 0x38d to 0x0 qemu-kvm: error: failed to set MSR 0x48e ... What does this mean? This error is caused by MSRs not being
