Intro

It's been a busy month for me. I've been working on doing "something" everyday (coding, lifting, running, and the like). But in the process of all that I've been able to install and deploy some pretty cool things. Also started on further refining my RE skills with doing a course on OpenSecurity2.

Selfhosting

So this month (and July) were pretty good months in the realm of self hosting (for me at least lol).

I successfully upgraded my Proxmox Cluster from version 8 to 9. Which was pretty straight forward. Not really sure of the current improvements related to what I host but it seemed to give me a more stable connection over ssh.

Some new services that I added over the last two months were:

  • SilverBullet: a note (or knowledge collection) taking service that is bundled with a server
  • Booklore: eBook display/library
  • Gitea Act Runners (not fully set up)

SilverBullet has been pretty enjoyable to use as I started working on my assembly skills. Unfortunately, I haven't had need for it with my job or really anywhere else. Story of my selfhosting journey.

Booklore has a nice UI but I didn't get to use it much as I have been struggling with removing the DRM from my Kindle books so that I can use them elsewhere. One thing that I didn't realize when using calibre (the ebook library builder) is that I need to bring over the books from my kindle and not what was downloaded off of Amazon.

RE

So to hold myself a bit more accountable in developing my RE skills I started doing courses through OpenSecurity2. I've done the 1000 level intro class as an intern (about 6 years ago) so I'm going back through it to refresh and start to take better notes on what I'm learning and cool info that I find. I hope to somehow teach what I learn to either my coworkers at my current job or through this blog in the RE section.

Outro

I know I'm more of a rambler when it comes to informal writing and I hope that this blog can help me start to better articulate these thoughts. Also as I get more mature I'm (thankfully) getting better at doing something every day. What I mean by that is as the day goes by, even if I don't always get a full hour of a work out in or write a full blog page, as long as I do SOMETHING I will progress. There's a lot of these types of sayings, "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good" "Keep forward momentum" "Journey before Destination" (I'm kidding with the last one... or am I???). Anyway... I just encourage you to simply do SOMETHING in the area that you are trying to accomplish everyday.

Welp that's it... gg