A Revelation

I am reinventing myself. In the past years, I have not been proud of who I am – I have no goals, no drive, no purpose. I’ve continued to make choices that I have no explanations for, there is some sort of illness or unwellness inside me. I have decided to find a higher power, to give myself some...

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Using Shift2CalDAV on MacOS and with iCloud

So if you’re like me, you hate having to log in to Target’s site to see when you work next. The app for your phone has no way to export to your calendar, either. That’s where Shift2CalDAV comes in – it can automate logging into myTime and generate ical events and push them to a CalDAV server. An ical...

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Fixing Shift2CalDAV

Once upon a time, I had written a python script that logged into my work’s website and copied my work schedule out to my own calendar. I set it up to run once a week on my VPS (www.jmthomas.tech) because adding these events manually was a PAIN. It worked really well…until it didn’t. One day it just stopped working,...

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Using Unraid for Time Machine

So, having killed my Proxmox install recently after a weird hardware failure I decided to move to Unraid just to try out something different. I’ll make another post at some point detailing some pros and cons for a regular home user like myself. One of the things I was using the Proxmox machine for was hosting a FreeNAS VM...

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Test after migration

Testing a post after moving my home lab from Proxmox to Unraid. That meant reinstalling the OS that was hosting this blog. I used Jetpack to back up my site, and to restore it. It seems to have worked. Hopefully the posts work too.

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