I've been using FreeNAS/TrueNAS for over 8 years, and while it works great as a NAS, some of the idiosyncrasies made me decide to migrate to Ubuntu:

1. TrueNAS is based on FreeBSD, and while it's similar to Linux, it's not 100% the same.

2. The feature set of TrueNAS is overkill for my needs.

   • I'm simple home user.
   • I'm …

While doing some troubleshooting on my home lab, I was trying to ping from one device to another device, both configured with IPv6, and only IPv6, addresses.

I was using tcpdump to attempt to capture the ICMP echo-requests (only), which in the IPv4 world, I would use this tcpdump syntax:

sudo tcpdump -nni ens192 …

I really like the look of the Hugo Zzo theme, but I changed the tag cloud that is displayed in the sidebar.

The unmodified sidebar displays the tags, with the number of posts tagged with the tag in question.

What I wanted was a variable font for the tags, with a bigger font for tags that had more posts.

Rather than …

Forcing curl/wget to decompress gzip'd output

I was doing some troubleshooting (of this site no less), and was using the ever-useful curl command to see what the webserver was sending.

However, at first, I got this output:

curl -so index.html https://www.nodinrogers.com # the '-s' is for silent, and the …

My start-to-finish customization of the Zzo Hugo theme.

Reference for myself, in case I need to reinvent the wheel.

This is still a work in progress...

Install Hugo

I'm using the 0.88.1 extended version, which at this time, is also the latest version.

wget …

I finally ironed out all of the issues with my KVM server, and to eliminate any of the left over junk, for lack of a better phrase, I nuked the server and reinstalled Ubuntu 20.04. For the record, junk consisted of various packages, their configurations, and system modifications, that I'd tried out in deciding how to …