John Woodruff

One of my most used homelab services I set up by far is Pterodactyl. When I first set it up two years ago I was mostly doing it as a fun little experiment, but since then I've run so many dedicated game servers on there so easily to play with my family and friends. Such a cool piece of software.

I recently released my side project! Novella is a modern, distraction free writing application! I’ve been working on it on and off for years and finally decided to release it. It’s been quite the side project, and I wrote all about it! Check it out if you’d like! johnbwoodruff.com/posts/novella/

I finally decommissioned my Dell R720. I had bought an R730 a bit ago and finally decided I'd had enough of running both. (electricity lol) So after a bunch of VM migrations and a GPU move, I am back down to 1 enterprise server lol! It feels nice. (and hopefully my wallet will thank me) #homelab

I've currently got one larger VM for my docker apps and use Traefik labeling to get it proxied with SSL. My next #homelab project is I'm going to spin up a few VMs on different machines so they can all be smaller and a little more distributed, then get Traefik hooked up to them.

Sometimes you crave cheap pizza. It's a different mood than when you want high quality. I can't stop buying Little Caesar's. Why do I do that to myself, when the vast majority of their pizza is either mediocre or straight up cardboard terrible? Because sometimes I get an absolute God Tier pizza.

I made a (pizza) pie chart about it. It's scientific and peer reviewed by my siblings and close friends.

Sometimes you crave cheap pizza. It's a different mood than when you want high quality. I can't stop buying Little Caesar's. Why do I do that to myself, when the vast majority of their pizza is either mediocre or straight up cardboard terrible? Because sometimes I get an absolute God Tier pizza.

Ah, the weekend. I bought Manor Lords, it was on my Steam wish list for a while and went on sale. Stoked to start building my quaint medieval village. I'll post back with my initial thoughts after I've played for a bit.

All right I've got a good start put together for an EOL file for my wife in case I pass away unexpectedly. I hope to continually add to it over time as I think of more things I missed, but I believe if I were to get hit by a bus tomorrow she would have the most important things she needs.

While my #homelab post was the original inspiration for doing this, I was able to document a ton of critical information that would be critical in the event of an untimely death. You don't realize how much you assume your spouse knows until you document it all. Now I know she'll have that info.

All right I've got a good start put together for an EOL file for my wife in case I pass away unexpectedly. I hope to continually add to it over time as I think of more things I missed, but I believe if I were to get hit by a bus tomorrow she would have the most important things she needs.

I've been slowly migrating VMs from my R720 over to my R730 in my #homelab. My eventual plan is to decommission the R720 so I'm not running two power hungry servers to inflate my electrical bill. My "critical" workloads will run on the R730 and I hope to get a low powered box for the rest.

I read a comment on Reddit by someone who was talking about their #homelab in the event they died young. It made me consider what that looks like for my family who uses a lot of stuff I’ve set up, but they’d never know how to maintain that or fix issues. It relies on my presence to keep it running.

It has made me start coming up with a “in case I die” plan for her to follow with my stuff, and I would like to simplify it all maybe by using something like HexOS (recently announced) to make it easy for her to manage the critical stuff she wants to use.

I read a comment on Reddit by someone who was talking about their #homelab in the event they died young. It made me consider what that looks like for my family who uses a lot of stuff I’ve set up, but they’d never know how to maintain that or fix issues. It relies on my presence to keep it running.

When I first started out building my #homelab I felt really self conscious about my single Raspberry Pi sitting on my desk when I would see the posts on r/homelab with the full datacenters some people are running. It's really easy to compare where you're at to others thanks to social media.

What matters is that you have fun with whatever the state of your homelab is like. Do fun projects, experiment with interesting software or tools, and just generally increase your understanding by tinkering with what you have. That's what homelabbing is about, whether you have a Pi or datacenter.

When I first started out building my #homelab I felt really self conscious about my single Raspberry Pi sitting on my desk when I would see the posts on r/homelab with the full datacenters some people are running. It's really easy to compare where you're at to others thanks to social media.

Update on my Proxmox backup issue. I have two nodes in a cluster and it's worked fine since I set it up but I didn't get around to setting up my qdevice for quorum voting. Well it wasn't affecting anything else so I didn't think of that as the issue, but that ended up being the issue. #homelab

So I threw corosync-qnetd on my Raspberry Pi that was previously running pihole and was just sitting around turned off, got it configured, and stuff is working pretty flawlessly now! Definitely my problem for procrastinating getting that set up because I assumed things were fine lol. Happy cluster.