I was in the process of migrating Shiori from my docker environment to the new k3s cluster I'm setting up. Shiori is a bookmarks manager that uses an SQLite database and a folder to store the data from the bookmarks. I didn't want to switch engines just yet since I want to improve SQLite's performance first, so I decided to move the data directly to a longhorn volume.

This probably is super simple and vastly known but it wasn't clear for me at first. Posting it here for future reference and for anyone that might find it useful.

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We have been doing a sort of experiment lately. My SO had eye surgery a few weeks ago and the first days se barely opened her eyes and even when she could open them blue light took a toll and make her eyes dry and tired really quickly. Since I still had to work and she had to rest, I suggested her to try out listening to an audiobook. She was a bit skeptical at first, but gave it a try.

I got her Yumi and the nightmare painter; she already read Tress of the emerald sea a few months ago and wanted to read something else from the same author an I got the feeling that this one was good for her too. I had a long plane trip ahead of me at that time too so I tried it out as well, though in my case the book wasn't new to me since I read it last year when it was released.

She loved it, both the book and the experience, and finished it in a couple of days. Even asked for more! Since Yumi and the nightmare painter is a short book and self-contained, talking to her we decied to try out a longer series together. A friend gave her Steelheart for her birthday last year, so we decided to start The Reckoners.

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I have my K3S cluster up and running, and I'm ready to deploy my first service. I'm going to start migrating one of the simplest services I have running in my current docker setup, the RSS reader Miniflux.

I'm going to use Helm charts through the process since k3s supports Helm out of the box, but for this first service there's also some preparation to do. I'm missing the storage backend, a way to ingress traffic from the internet, a way to manage the certificates and the database. Also, I need to migrate my current data from one database to another, but those are postgresql databases so I guess a simple pg_dump/pg_restore or psql commands will do the trick.

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I've finally started to play with K3S, a lightweight Kubernetes distribution. I have been reading about it for a while and I'm excited to see how it performs in my home lab. My services have been running in an Intel NUC running Docker container for some years now, but the plan is to migrate them to a k3s cluster of three NanoPC-T6 boards.

I was looking for a small form-factor and low power consumption solution, and the NanoPC-T6 seems to fit the bill. I know I'm going to stumble upon some limitations but I'm eager to see how it goes and the problems I find along the way.

My requirements are very simple: I want to run a small cluster with a few services, and I want to be able to access them from the internet and from my home. My current setup relies on Tailscale for VPN and Ingress for the services, so I'm going to try and replicate that in this new setup.

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Due to some recent traveling I have started to listen to audiobooks. I love reading but some times my eyes are just too tired to go with it but I'm not sleepy at all or maybe I just wanted the convenience to lay down but still do something.

Short story, I bought some from a known distributor but I'm a fan of data preservation and actually owning what I pay for. I found an application in Github that allowed me to download the files that composed the audiobook in split mp3 files, but that didn't do. I wanted a single file with correct metadata, so I got my hands dirty.

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