Matt Olan

Using the OpenFaaS IngressOperator with Traefik v2 on Kubernetes

Lately, I have been migrating the public services I have running on a DigitalOcean Droplet to a cluster of Raspberry Pis running K3s at home. To simplify the development workflow for my projects I have converted many of them to OpenFaaS functions that run

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Migrate from Authy to Another 2FA App

With the recent changes to LastPass Free limiting the types of devices you can concurrently use with one account, I decided now was the time to migrate to a new service. I settled on a self-hosted instance of Bitwarden, specifically the bitwarden_rs implementation

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How to Create and Enable Swap in Linux

Running low on memory can cause applications to crash, the system to become unresponsive, and other issues. This is common on memory limited systems, especially on SBCs like the Raspberry Pi. Swapping to disk can be used to allow for some extra breathing room

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Raspberry Pi iSCSI Root on Ubuntu 20.04

Over the holidays, I wanted to build a Kubernetes cluster on some Raspberry Pis I had, which were collecting dust. I spun up a simple Rancher K3s cluster, but quickly discovered they were heavily IO-bound. I decided that if I was going to use

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How to Downgrade Steam Games

Yesterday, Sid Meier’s Civilization VI got a new update for the New Frontier Pass. This update had the unfortunate side effect of breaking compatibility between the Windows and macOS

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Making a piSCSI USB Drive — Part 2

Continuing directly from my previous post, I have received my RockPi 4b in the mail and, using the exact same methods outlined before, have set it up for OTG and

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Making a piSCSI USB Drive — Part 1

I use my home Synology NAS to consolidate nearly all my data in one place. One exception to this is my PlayStation 4, which can connect to the NAS to

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Hilda Peak

1/1000s f/6.3 50mm ISO100 Shot on ILCE-6400

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Disable Sleep Timer on Bose SoundTouch

SoundTouch speakers have an inactivity timer that will put them into a low power mode after 20 minutes. At home I use a Chromecast Audio with my Bose SoundTouch 10

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Backup Authy with mitmproxy

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is an essential part of internet security, but when using OTP generators you run the risk of account lockout if you lose access to your device. Authy allows you to backup your encrypted secrets to their servers, but I like maintaining