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I learned something the hard way so that you wouldn't have to.

Taking Taildrive for a Testdrive

A quick exploration of Taildrive, Tailscale's new(ish) feature to easily share directories with other machines on your tailnet without having to juggle authentication or network connectivity.

I Ditched vSphere for Proxmox VE

I moved my homelab from VMware vSphere to Proxmox VE, and my only regret is that I didn't make this change sooner.

How to Ask For Help

There are no dumb questions - but there are smarter (and dumber) ways to ask them.

Tailscale on VMware Photon OS

How to manually install Tailscale on VMware's Photon OS - or any other systemd-based platform without official Tailscale packages.

Using VS Code to explore giant log bundles

I recently ran into a peculiar issue after upgrading my vRealize Automation homelab to the new 8.3 release, and the error message displayed in the UI didn't give me a whole lot of information to work with: Unfortunately my 'Essential Googling The Error Message' O'RLY book was no help with making the bad words go away

I connected to the vRA appliance to try to find the relevant log excerpt, but doing so isn't all that straightforward↗ given the containerized nature of the services. So instead I used the vracli log-bundle command to generate a bundle of all relevant logs, and I then transferred the resulting (2.2GB!) log-bundle.tar to my workstation for further investigation. I expanded the tar and ran tree -P '*.log' to get a quick idea of what I've got to deal with: That's a lot of logs! Ugh. Even if I knew which logs I wanted to look at (and I don't) it would take ages to dig through all of this. There's got to be a better way.


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 John Wq