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Category: Nerdism

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….
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)…
I’ve decided that this year I’m going to learn how to build WordPress plugins. Not necesarily to publish to the wp.org repo, but something that will make my life just a little bit easier….
The last component of Grunt I wanted to setup before I get stuck into my current WordPress project, is LiveReload. This does what it sounds like. When it detects any file changes (based on…
Today I decided to look into Docker & Grunt. Docker doesn’t really seem like the kind of thing that would benefit me much in my workflow for building SMB WordPress websites. Looks like it…