Britt Gresham

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I Can't Open The Garage and Other Lessons Not Learned Running A Homelab

September 12, 2026

We live a car free life, so our garage keeps the one mode of transportation we have. Our Bikes. Unlike other garages, ours doesn't have a keypad on the outside for us to open. A problem easily solved,...

#homelab, #terraform, #musings, #Immutable-Infrastructure-Journey

Filtering Spam Emails with Custom Sieve Filters in Proton Mail

April 22, 2026

I've been using a catch-all email address for all emails for a while now, but one thing has always irritated me. My email somehow finds its way into a bunch of unrelated marketing lists that are not l...

#email

Wild Chess

December 31, 2025

A game my partner and I used to play a ton of over lunch was a game called [Really Bad Chess](http://reallybadchess.com/). In Really Bad Chess, each player gets a roughly balanced board of random piec...

#project

Moving to Qobuz and Bandcamp

December 23, 2025

I've been in the market for a new music service to subscribe to seeing how Spotify [pays out among the lowest of the streaming services](https://vocal.media/beat/how-much-spotify-pays-per-stream-in-20...

#musings, #music

Manage Proxmox VMs with Terraform

July 24, 2023

I'm continuing my journey toward a fully immutable home lab. I've lived with the changes that I have been experimenting around with for about a year now and so far its been great. Definitely a couple...

#project, #homelab, #proxmox, #terraform, #tutorial, #Immutable-Infrastructure-Journey

Create VM Templates within Proxmox with Packer

March 11, 2023

The last few months I've made it a goal to remove manual steps in my home lab's setup and really embrace the idea of immutable infrastructure. No more servers laying around which are constantly logged...

#project, #homelab, #proxmox, #packer, #tutorial, #Immutable-Infrastructure-Journey

Managing my dotfiles with Nix

July 24, 2022

There have been more than a few cases where people suggest various tools to manage my dotfiles for me. Nix is one of the more recent ones and it intrigued me after learning a bit more about how it app...

#nix, #home-manager, #dotfiles, #immutablity, #declarative-languages

Run Home Assistant With Nomad

July 15, 2022

I often use the projects around my home to toy around with new to me technology. Now I've been playing around with running a whole assortment of services for myself all the way from [Plex](https://www...

#home-assistant, #nomad, #tailscale, #consul, #traefik, #glusterfs

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