Getting Back on Track

Feb 23, 2025

#life#homelab

They say that life always throws the curve-balls at the most inopportune moments, and needless to say 2024 has been the very definition of that. The year started bad, improved, then hit another roadblock in September that saw me putting my life on hold again.

Thankfully, i’ve come out of the other side without any major issues. As it turns out that not processing my health scare from early 2024 caused further mental complications but it was caught relatively early before it escalated into something more serious.

With that, my usual development and coding output slammed to a near halt, with only the scheduled tasks on Github actually producing any commits to my projects.

As it turns out, my coding and tinkering in the world of DevOps is an actual relaxing thing for me to do. I’ve got a small Kubernetes cluster at home as my ‘home-prod’, and a collection of small VMs and hosting for my own websites. Today I took some time to actually implement some todo list items and get back up to speed with my configuration.

First of all was switching out Authentik for Pocket ID. Authentik is amazing, but absolutely over-kill for my homelab needs. Pocket ID is Passkeys first and it simplifies the login flow so much when you’ve only got to hit one button!

Next up was a update to my ohayodash and Simple Webfinger projects. Quick changes to update poetry and get the containers building as linux/arm64 to allow them to run natively on my M4 Mac Mini.

Its been a refreshing couple of hours getting back into it. I’m hoping to contribute to a bigger project, maybe even Pocket ID once I get more drive, but we’ll see in the near future what happens.