Robey Lawrence

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I was curious if it was possible to run local scripts from simply clicking a button on a basic HTML page, as I can think of a few good scenarios for browser based dashboard…
I’ve been building some website monitoring stuff lately using self-hosted software. Here’s one that uses n8n (like Zapier) to ingest email logs (sent from a WordPress site) from an IMAP folder, parses the email…
I’ve been learning how to interact with APIs lately, and this app on MacOS (Auxl) has been fun to play with. You visually drag around Nodes on a canvas to build your requests….
Allow me to make a prediction.. 5-10 years from now, you’re in your lounge room and you put on your Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality headset. You walk in (login) to the local Target (still in…
If you work in IT with multiple client networks to keep track of, or you just have a lot of personal internet-connected devices around the place, NetBox looks like an awesome tool for interactive…
This is a Grafana dashboard running on one of the raspberry Pis in my home network. It’s visualising a data feed that’s being fetched from a couple of cloud servers using Prometheus and Prometheus…
If you’re wanting to learn docker and what it’s all about, but you’re a visual learner (like me), there are a couple of great self-hosted GUI’s for managing containers. The one I’ve been using…
My HomeLab currently consists of two Raspberry Pi 4’s The Pi in the black case is the 4GB RAM model, running my install of Home Assistant. The Pi in the official (red & white)…
Just set one up on my personal blog (this site) on my Cloud VPS. Flippin’ insanely easy!   1. Click the Let’s Encrypt button in cPanel, enter your email, and click ‘Install’   2….