by Alexander Henderson | Apr 5, 2021 | Site Stuff
You might have noticed that portions of my site have been getting updated. I am currently playing around with the Divi theme from Elegant Themes. I have not yet decided on a theme so the website may change a few times before I settle. However, content links wont...
by Alexander Henderson | Sep 21, 2020 | Docker, Homelab Things
My last post about GitHub Actions left off with a docker container being built when a commit was pushed to the repo. Now this is great if you are building a docker container, for your project, in your current repo. However, for me though that’s not the case. At...
by Alexander Henderson | Aug 17, 2020 | Automation, Projects
Got Plex running on a Windows machine? Need a script to watch the process and make sure it stays running? Well.. Me too! So I created the PlexWatchDog script! It is 100% written in PowerShell and is completely self contained.. e.g. No modules needed besides...
by Alexander Henderson | Aug 14, 2020 | Homelab Things
If you answered yes to the question in the title, you are probably experiencing the inability to cast media properly to devices located on a IoT VLAN. Well you’re in luck! An awesome member of the Ubiquiti community created a docker container for the...
by Alexander Henderson | May 31, 2020 | Docker, Homelab Things
So if you’ve been to my site before, you might remember that I setup a locally hosted Jenkins instance for building Docker containers. However I have since decided to retire the VM hosting that instance and it was getting tedious to keep on-top of the Jenkins...
by Alexander Henderson | Apr 30, 2020 | Reviews
Neither of these devices were sent to me for a review. I paid MSRP for both the Unifi Dream Machine Pro and USP-Plug. Once the 1.8.2 beta firmware goes stable. I will be creating a follow up review since when I reviewed the UDMP originally it was on an early firmware...
by Alexander Henderson | Nov 15, 2019 | Docker, Homelab Things
The Problem: I want to deploy my custom image of Caddy Server in docker but also keep it up-to-date with upstream changes in the abiosoft/caddy-docker repository. The Solution: Use Jenkins to watch the abiosoft/caddy-docker repository and build my image based on...
by Alexander Henderson | Nov 13, 2019 | Site Stuff
If you are a recurring visitor or happen to just browse the site, you may have noticed the absence of current posts. Lets just say I have been a bit busy… I’ve got some fun projects I have been working on as well as some IRL stuff to handle. I will...
by Alexander Henderson | Jul 11, 2019 | Site Stuff
You may have noticed that both my site [alexsguardian.net] and the Grafana – Experts Exchange wiki going down a lot recently. Here is why: TL/DR: Migrated both sites from my home hosted web server to a dedicated host. I logged into Cloudflare’s dashboard...
by Alexander Henderson | Jun 14, 2019 | Grafana, Prometheus Exporters
The other day I came across a Prometheus Exporter for Pi-hole (found in a comment on /r/pihole) that gives WAY more stats/data compared to the InfluxDB script I posted about awhile back. With this exporter, I was able to setup a more detailed dashboard. Now currently...
