December 16, 2025
Recently I’ve done a lot of reorganization with TrueNAS, migrating Plex and Gitea to TrueNAS-based virtual machines and just generally spending a bunch of time poking around with my home lab and improving things. A few weeks ago I started actually using containers in …
December 2, 2025
I’ve written two articles previously, first was moving Gitea from FreeBSD to Linux and the second was a followup on accessing TrueNAS shares from a nested VM. The first was a few weeks ago, the second a few days. I took a long weekend and also took advantage of some Black …
November 29, 2025
In my previous article on moving Gitea from FreeBSD to Linux I ended the post noting that I needed to be able to share the host NAS filesystem with a virtual machine it was hosting. In my case, this is so that Gitea backups could be stored on the NAS external to the virtual …
November 18, 2025
I’ve been using TrueNAS for a number of years, from when it was FreeBSD-based to now that it’s Linux-based. Right now I use them both: TrueNAS Core (FreeBD) and TrueNAS Scale (Linux). The TrueNAS Scale box has been mostly for fiddling with containers, while the …
December 30, 2024
Normally I do some coding over the holidays as it used to be the one time of the year I could have some dedicated time to work on personal projects, or just fiddle with random non-work things. Normally that would have been updates to the blog platform I had written to run this …
March 5, 2023
I’m an avid note taker and have migrated through a series of different tools to take notes, some proprietary and some open source. I’ve gone through Quiver, Inkdrop, Agenda, and recently I migrated everything to Joplin. But I wanted to be able to sync my notes between …
December 22, 2020
Given it’s the holidays and that’s when I tend to have time and energy to poke around the house, I decided to upgrade my FreeNAS box to the newer TrueNAS 12 release. The upgrade itself went without a hitch, simply switching from the FreeNAS 11 train to the TrueNAS 12 …