I created a new command on my Discord bot (PR #16) that fetches the status of the Minecraft servers running on minecraft.kgb33.dev. When running locally it worked perfectly, but when running in production it fails silently. This post outlines the debugging steps I took to solve the issue.

I’m trying out daily driving NixOS and one of the problems I have is knowing when updates are available. On NixOS all the packages are defined in a giant git repository - github:nixos/nixpkgs - and updates are commits to the various branches (called channels) of this repo. Then, my system is locked to a particular commit hash for whichever channel I’m comfortable running. Thus, to find out if there are updates available I just have to check if the most recent hash is in the lock file.

Go play in traffic - Parents everywhere

Once more they lifted sails, and once more they took the Argo into the open sea. - Jason and Medea

Thrice a day would Talos stride around the island; his brazen feet were tireless. - The Story of Perseus

Ordering LetsEncrypt certificates for your Proxmox servers is almost too easy, no more self-signed certificates!

I recently experimented automating VM creation across my Proxmox cluster. I tested out several tools before finally settling on Terraform and cloning from a Proxmox “template”.

2022 was a busy year, this is a concise review of almost everything I did & learned.