Erianna

Lexa is a instance and service discovery tool for LXD containers that exposes DNS, DoT and a JSON REST endpoint to make discovery of containers and services within containers on LXD instances easier, except now it’s written entirely in Rust. Lexa can be used as a stand-alone service to identify what LXD containers are running on a given host, or can be used in conjunction with tools such as HaProxy, Traefik, or even your own DNS server to automate load balancing between hosts, blue/green or red/black deployments, CNAME to hosts, and other scenariors.

Making material lists for Minecraft Bedrock edition is hard, so I made a tool written in rust that’ll take an exported .mcstructure file and conver it into a very simple materials list for you to use for your videos. Checkout this Youtube Short that showcases how to use it. You can get more information about the tool from Github: https://github.com/Alaydriem/bedrock-material-list

Today I am making source-available one of my pandemic projects - pbrick – a USB-C PD powered, Bluetooh controlled motor driver and IO software and hardware.

Today I am publicly announcing the availability of a new nRF52 bootloader for nRF52840 circuits, which source code and binaries available at: https://github.com/kaidyth/nrf52_bootloader.

Lexa is a instance and service discovery tool for LXD containers that exposes DNS, DoT and a JSON REST endpoint to make discovery of containers and services within containers on LXD instances easier. Lexa can be used as a stand-alone service to identify what LXD containers are running on a given host, or can be used in conjunction with tools such as HaProxy, Traefik, or even your own DNS server to automate load balancing between hosts, blue/green or red/black deployments, CNAME to hosts, and other scenariors.

Your DNS server knows a lot about you - in fact it knows every single website your visit. Between ISP’s intercepting both valid and invalid domains, and potentially selling your browsing history to advertisers, it’s both prudent and remarkably simple to encrypt all of your DNS to prevent this and to more importantly, encrypt this traditionally plain-text data to prevent prying eyes.

A semi-authoritative zone enables you to provide authoritative records for a given zone for records the DNS server is aware of, and forwarding all unknown requests to an upstream server.

Available as a CoreDNS plugin, Partial is a drop-in replacement for the CoreDNS file plugin that allows for partially or semi-authoritative DNS zones, and is available on Github at https://github.com/charlesportwoodii/coredns-partial.

If you’ve ever lost an important document or file you know how essential timely and reliable backups are. Getting backups done effeciently can prove to be challenge however, especially on Linux where a dozen different tools exist and do a variation on the same theme.

Until recently I’ve been using Duplicati which is an excellent tool, but struggles to start reliably on newer Linux kernel version, resulting in inconsistent backup states and data loss when you need to recover something.

In this article I’ll cover how I automate backups of all my Linux desktops, servers, and laptops to a locally encrypted BTRFS store, and off-site to a cloud provider.

Unable to tolerate the significant performance losses I was seeing on my aging i5-2500 desktop, I recently elected to upgrade my desktop to something a bit more powerful that would enable me to work faster and get more done.

While planning out this process, I stumbled up this article from mid 2017 detailing the process of getting GPU passthrough working on Fedora 26 with Ryzen.

Exhausted by the constant performance losses incurred by Spectre and Meltdown I was experiencing on my old i5-2500, and wanting to capitalize on the cost-per-core benefit Ryzen 2 offered, I decided to take the plunge into GPU passthrough and to see if it would be a viable long term solution for me, and my have I been pleased.

This write up details my experiences getting PCI passthrough working through Ubuntu 18.04 to Windows 10 using OVMF+VFIO and libvirt. While this document shouldn’t be considered a comprehensive guide, it will cover what I needed to do to get this working (mainly so I can set it back up again if I ever need to), while also covering a few tips and tricks I’ve learned along the way.

Wireguard is an extremely simple, fast, and modern VPN. With it’s introduction into the mainline linux kernel, Wireguard promises to provide a simpler, faster, and more secure way for setting up a VPN without needing to deal with traditional solutions like OpenVPN and L2TP/IPSEC, which can be cumbersome and slow.

In this article I’ll cover how to install Wireguard on a Ubiquiti router, and how to connect a remote client to it.