I think it would be nice to get rid of the pesky certificate warnings on my Proxmox and PBS GUI’s. There will be other benefits too that I can’t think of right now.

Yeh it sure has been a while. This is what happens when you have kids I guess, all the non essentials of life fall by the way side.

Some things i’ve been doing in the Home Lab lately that I hope to document:

• 3 node HAProxy Cluster to Reverse Proxy Web Traffic
• Converting all of my Homelab deployments into Ansible Playbooks
• Semaphore / SemUI Integrations using HMAC auth Summary here

When I moved into my new house, I had a bit of a green fields opportunity where I could start again with my Unifi SDA configuration. One of the things I set out to do was to seperate device types into different vlans for say IOT vs Guest vs Servers use cases. As a result of this, the IP addressing scheme started to get more complicated. To address the complication, internal hosts needed to be resolvable by name.

About a month ago, a friend of my tweeted about a guy named @levelsio and his live streaming of himself building a js/php Web App called hoodmaps. I was utterly glued to the videos he made and it inspired me to build something of my own. Then more recently, another friend of mine was discussing how he could have a whole group of users update a Google Spreadsheet without being able to interfere with each others data. Perhaps this was something I could build!?

I resisted for some time. Some Touch Bar reluctance was a big part of that and to be honest, I just wasn’t due for an upgrade. I love new toys as much as the next Geek but the 2013 11” Air was still doing a great job. And then, 2017” MacBook Pro came out. Something about it was a bit irresistable for me. Perhaps behing the 2nd gen of the TouchBar laptops made me positive that the hardware issues would have been ironed out and of course finally Apple have upgraded to the Kaby Lake CPU’s.. and, once I got the idea in my head, well! Oh yeh, and that person on Gumtree never got back to me about the broken 2015 MBP I was keen to buy and bring back to life. So here we are. It’s unboxed and it has not disappointed!!