SFTP, Caddy WebDAV

Couldn’t have come at a better time for me! Great work and thank you :)

Make stuff! That’s only tip I can give.

and make it until it’s DONE

NixOS because it’s declarative kind of does it all for me.

The .nix files serve as their own documentation and if I need to do anything outside them I add a comment to the .nix file.

Ow, my back xD. I’m struggling to think of some other key-value mapping that’s available in the real world that works tbf. I was gonna say TV Channel numbers to Channel names…but then I’m really showing my age lmao

A website is just a html page that lives on some computer somewhere and is being served by a program which tells the computer which html page to show when given a port + path to follow.

All internet connected computers have IP addresses that we can use and DNS is the phonebook that connects IP addresses to domain names. (To test this, ping google.com in terminal, then copy and paste the IP address ping shows you into your address bar).

The webserver/reverse proxy in this case is our program which tells your machine what to send and when: these are programs like traefik, caddy, Apache, nginx et al. On top of this, it doesn’t have to be just HTML files, it can be actual files, or services or programs you’ve written.

External computer: “I want the contents of 10.11.12.13:443/some/path”

[DNS Machinery and Tubes]

Hosting machine: “Someone wants the contents of port 443 and some/path. Found the contents, let me send these back to them”

[Internet machinery and tubes]

External computer: “I have received the contents”

As an aside, if you’re behind Carrier-Grade NAT (aka, you can’t actually reach your machine from your external IP address because you actually share it with a bunch other people) then you can use a VPN like tailscale (or headscale) to have a tunnel connection between the machines you require to interact/

I use Caddy with the WebDAV extension. Works beautifully.

??? What’s wrong with a simple cron job / systemd timer with a bash script?

I only use it when I’m learning something very new and very dense and that’s to stand up an example based on a context I’m interested in or already familiar.

It helps me identify parts of the docs to focus on more quickly.

Otherwise no, I’m getting better without tools

Get a second-nature understanding of memory and the execution loop and you’ll be grand

Don’t use Ansible and use Nix instead.

Seriously though give yourself time and a solid goals you want to achieve, it’ll take time and it’ll be worth it as

I’m in the same boat, I have a Plex pass, I have my reverse proxy setup, Plex just works ™ and when it stops, Jellyfin is already installed and ready to go.

2 remake is one of my favourite games of all time. 4 remake looks great too but never played. Not too interested in 7 and 8 but I’ll try them if the time is there

How much (GB/TB) is not much btw?

I need to get around to backing up via Backblaze

I have no more wants of Immich, it does everything that I need lol

NixOS’s declarative configurations basically document themsleves: add some comments and you’re good to go and can back then up to wherever whenever

• a domain + reverse proxy + vps

then uncle bob does not need a vpn to access your plex

Currently working through the Talos Principle. Really fun + there’s a really cool shader to render ripples on water.

Asura’s Wrath, DMC1, Bayonetta

thank you for this 💜