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I’m chronicling what I do with my Homelab

How to Resector Drives for TrueNAS

I should first note that this guide is for TrueNAS Scale, as that is what most people (myself included) use. Tools required: sg_format tmux smartctl Procedure The first thing you’ll need to do is figure out the ID’s of the drives that need to be resectored. The easiest way I have found to do this is to open the Storage > Disks window in the TrueNAS webui and look for drives that have a listed size of zero....

October 3, 2025

Moving Off of Google Sites

Hi! I finally chose to move my main site and portfolio off of a mirrored Google Site from forever ago. I’ll be moving it to Hugo so expect more Hugo-related content in the future!

March 27, 2024

Automating Hugo Page Creation

This is a simple shell script to automate the creation of hugo pages. Run this command in your site directory to create a script file: nano newpage.sh Now, paste this into the file: #!/bin/bash # Prompt the user for a string. echo "What is the title of your post?" read title command="hugo new posts/$title.md" # Run the command. echo "Running command: $command" eval "$command" Thats it! Now, when you want to make a new post, just run:...

July 18, 2023

SkyConnect Install

Installing the SkyConnect in a Home Assistant VM I’m gonna be honest, I spent over 4 hours trying (and failing) to get virt-manager installed becasue I was too stubborn to just rebuild my VM. With that out of the way, here’s the guide! This Guide is for a libvirtd KVM on Ubuntu First, you are going to want to make a backup of your Home Assistant install and download that somewhere safe (Doesn’t need to be in three places or anything, just somewhere it won’t get deleted)....

June 7, 2023

Welcome

Welcome to my blog! Don’t know what I’m gonna do with it yet though. I’ll probably use this to chronicle what I do with my server. Maybe l’ll write some guides…

May 12, 2023