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Overview I’ve come across Homer in my homelabbing adventures. It’s great for navigating the various services you can run in a homelab, and I plan on using it to organize the links I use for work and share it with my team. The documented methods on github to get started running homer are: Use docker Unzip the prebuilt tarball and host the assets with an HTTP server Running docker on a Mac just for this felt a bit heavy-handed, so I chose to serve the assets with an HTTP server instead. Of the documented HTTP server options, the GitHub docs suggest using pnpm http-server, python -m http.server, or any web server. Since I work with Go a lot and it’s lightweight, I decided to use a Go HTTP server. ...

While echo is the more widely known command for printing text to standard out, I have found behavior and documentation inconsistencies in its varying implementations1. macOS echo man page: Ubuntu echo man page: In addition, it’s default behavior can cause unintended results when combined with character sensitive commands like base64. Here are a few use cases where echo has caused some trouble for me. ...

I was inspired to add a social icon links to my website after seeing it on a few other developer portfolios. There was just a nice clean feel to it. 😊 It’s pretty straight forward but there are a few gotchas. I will walk through how I added social icons to my website and how I worked through the issues I hit along the way. Before: ...

For the longest time I’ve wanted to start a blog, but told myself that as a developer I should “build it from scratch” because “it would be a learning experience” and “it would look better if I did”. Two and half years later, I still don’t have a blog. 😅 It’s true that building it from scratch would have been a good learning experience, but the part that has held me back was “it would look better if I did” – imposter syndrome at its finest. Thinking more about this has made me realize my initial desire to start a blog was to show what I know, but what held me back was the nagging thought of being called out for saying saying the wrong thing, looking like I don’t know what I’m doing, or “its already been covered”. ...