Patrick Hubbard
@ferventgeek.com
Automation & AIOps pragmatist, pilot, reluctant tech marketeur. Currently ScienceLogic, fmr SolarWinds, Sun, AA ✈️, opinionated but not like Go.
Home.techDebt.reduce(). Seriously, containers on the pi (4 8GB and above), are where it's at. Unifi, Pi-hole, Node-RED, Prometheus, Grafana, and a couple of custom apps all run great on one pi. Add Portainer for management, and keep a spare pi for SD card-swap failover, done. It's loafing:
September 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Home.techDebt.reduce(). Seriously, containers on the pi (4 8GB and above), are where it's at. Unifi, Pi-hole, Node-RED, Prometheus, Grafana, and a couple of custom apps all run great on one pi. Add Portainer for management, and keep a spare pi for SD card-swap failover, done. It's loafing:
Running your Unifi Controller app under portainer.io on a Raspberry Pi makes upgrades a three-click affair. With linuxserver/unifi-network-application:latest as your image, click "Recreate" on the container menu, check the "Re-pull image" option on the confirm dialog, and that's it. Done in 30 secs.
September 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Running your Unifi Controller app under portainer.io on a Raspberry Pi makes upgrades a three-click affair. With linuxserver/unifi-network-application:latest as your image, click "Recreate" on the container menu, check the "Re-pull image" option on the confirm dialog, and that's it. Done in 30 secs.
The enshittification of search marches on. Check my EV for a loose gas cap, Roger.
September 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The enshittification of search marches on. Check my EV for a loose gas cap, Roger.
Well that was a nice little Lancer (B-1) Austin flyover. GE F101 quartet, no reheat. www.reddit.com/r/Austin/com...
September 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Well that was a nice little Lancer (B-1) Austin flyover. GE F101 quartet, no reheat. www.reddit.com/r/Austin/com...
AI enshittification may break the attention stranglehold of media, social and otherwise. They can’t help themselves destroy their own platforms following dreams of empty desks. That, or AI knows we need to go outside.
September 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
AI enshittification may break the attention stranglehold of media, social and otherwise. They can’t help themselves destroy their own platforms following dreams of empty desks. That, or AI knows we need to go outside.
Google Fiber watch, day 3,752. Bootstrappy neighbor identifying missing box work to complete the conduit. After this they blow the fiber down the conduits.
August 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Google Fiber watch, day 3,752. Bootstrappy neighbor identifying missing box work to complete the conduit. After this they blow the fiber down the conduits.
Cloudflare's global, hourlong DNS outage Monday was a reminder to use a completely different provider for your secondary.
blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1...
blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1...
July 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Cloudflare's global, hourlong DNS outage Monday was a reminder to use a completely different provider for your secondary.
blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1...
blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1...
Point of sale has irrupted
June 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Point of sale has irrupted
When AI builds your plane. What even is this?
June 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
When AI builds your plane. What even is this?
At least GPT pretends to understand.. to be more likeable.
June 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
At least GPT pretends to understand.. to be more likeable.
Late-stage Austinism.
May 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Late-stage Austinism.
Near stationary line, blowing up in Gonzales, likely delighting the meteorology geeks in Aggieland
May 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Near stationary line, blowing up in Gonzales, likely delighting the meteorology geeks in Aggieland
ITOps classic: false alert in a maintenance window. 😂
May 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
ITOps classic: false alert in a maintenance window. 😂
Interesting #homelab issue today.
1) My 11 yo #Synology DS1515+ hard died, but I popped the drives in the same order into a DS923+ and it came right up because, Synology is awesome. 💯
but..
2) #Unifi wouldn't hand out a DHCP lease because its US8 switch needed a power cycle.. what? 🤔
1) My 11 yo #Synology DS1515+ hard died, but I popped the drives in the same order into a DS923+ and it came right up because, Synology is awesome. 💯
but..
2) #Unifi wouldn't hand out a DHCP lease because its US8 switch needed a power cycle.. what? 🤔
April 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
How’s your day? Here’s a pic of my laptop assistant in case you’re looking for something similarly agentic.
March 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
How’s your day? Here’s a pic of my laptop assistant in case you’re looking for something similarly agentic.
How many years does it take for something to become a tradition? Ex: First day of Spring Break == Rodeo Austin. Perfect weather helps. 🎡🎢🍬🐂🥤
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
How many years does it take for something to become a tradition? Ex: First day of Spring Break == Rodeo Austin. Perfect weather helps. 🎡🎢🍬🐂🥤
Shouldn’t all AI responses be processed with the same filter?
March 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Shouldn’t all AI responses be processed with the same filter?
Every time AT&T sends email pushing “giga” in my central metro neighborhood:
🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣
February 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Every time AT&T sends email pushing “giga” in my central metro neighborhood:
🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣
The average CPU temp of my daily driver. It's what you get when you multiply six by nine.
February 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The average CPU temp of my daily driver. It's what you get when you multiply six by nine.
Me: "I really do need to finish migrating to gmail."
Yahoo's new UX: "Here's your sign."
Yahoo's new UX: "Here's your sign."
February 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Me: "I really do need to finish migrating to gmail."
Yahoo's new UX: "Here's your sign."
Yahoo's new UX: "Here's your sign."
TIL that Chrome's tab UI performance (click events, closing tabs etc.) degrades when the Windows Download folder is packed. If Chrome is slow, try cleaning up your downloads.
February 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
TIL that Chrome's tab UI performance (click events, closing tabs etc.) degrades when the Windows Download folder is packed. If Chrome is slow, try cleaning up your downloads.
Spectrum gonna Spectrum. Meanwhile Elmolink keeps chugging.
February 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Spectrum gonna Spectrum. Meanwhile Elmolink keeps chugging.
Literally chatting with my wife this morning about canceling the Starlink backup $$ for WAN2, and Spectrum is here to remind us to keep paying Elmo if we want to work.
February 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Literally chatting with my wife this morning about canceling the Starlink backup $$ for WAN2, and Spectrum is here to remind us to keep paying Elmo if we want to work.