It’s been a while since I wrote one, but the other day I finally finished my tutorial on setting up Proxmox Backup Server. It’s a detailed account of what I did. I mainly write these to clean up the notes I take while working on things. If I left the notes as-is, in a few months I’d have no idea what I actually did. The notes simply don’t contain everything, so while it’s still fresh in my mind, I turn them into a tutorial. I do so mostly for myself, but hopefully its useful to others as well. ...

This is going to be a long one. I have spent countless hours setting up my Proxmox VE and the VM’s and LXC containers on it. It occurred to me that it might be wise to have a decent backup solution for this, in case something goes catastrophically wrong. Luckily Proxmox provides a ready-made solution for this and it is called Proxmox Backup Server or PBS for short. This post will go through how I set this up on my system. ...

It sucks. No really, it does. It’s a shame, but there’s nearly nothing of value left. Nuke all your cookies and the likes and start in a fresh new browser. Wadda ya see? AI slop. Bullshit videos and nearly all thumbs seem AI generated. Lose your soul and drop into shorts… This place is even worse. YouTube is doing full minute ads now too, I hear. I don’t suffer from that shit as I have decent adblock. Still though, one minute of a single ad between “free” content? That’s bonkers. ...

I used to have cover images for some posts on my blog. I felt they added some needed pizzazz to the site. Turns out I was wrong. It added a splash of color to the index page, sure, but it also brought some issues. First was that some images were too big, spacing out blog posts on the index page, forcing users to scroll way too much to go through the posts list. I tried to remedy this by cropping the images and making them all the same height. This, I found, works for some images, but ruins others. No bueno. ...

I hate the fact that I cannot enjoy the moment anymore. I used to be able to sit down and watch a movie. A whole movie. Start to finish; watch it. No breaks. No peaking at my phone. No little distractions. I’d get up to take a piss, or grab a drink, sure, but I was into the movie. Not just movies though. Music! I used to be able to enjoy music on its own. Just having an album on I took the time to go out and buy and just enjoy it playing. Nothing else, just the music. ...

At least, from your computer. Hear me out. I’ve only recently gotten into reading people’s personal blogs. It’s very relaxing to read the personal thoughts of real people. Not just thoughts, sometimes there’s ideas, tips, tricks, ways to improve something for yourself or, and this is my favorite one, a link to a new blog to explore. My list of blogs to keep track of is constantly growing. I discover new people weekly. The point here is, there’s a lot to read and reading takes time. And while I absolutely enjoy every minute I spend reading all these great posts, time is something I, well we all, only have a limited amount of. ...

📝 NOTE This post is not up to date anymore. All slash pages have been dropped. I didn’t feel like keeping them updated. I am debating slash pages. This website is a blog, or at least it aims to be. This time around, I didn’t just start blogging. No. I also got into reading other people’s blogs. I have a blogroll page where I list some of the ones I enjoy reading. This particular page, the blogroll, is was located under my domain, Jorisvandijk.com, then a forward slash / and then the name blogroll. Pages like this, pages under the main domain name right after the slash, these are called slash pages. At least they are in the blogosphere (what a word). ...

I see it everywhere now. AI code. Code that pretends to be written by a person, but isn’t. You can smell it if you’ve been around code long enough. It’s too clean. Too eager to please. Every function name is a sentence. Every comment explains the obvious, like it’s written by someone explaining programming to a golden retriever. Sometimes there’s even an emoji in there. An emoji. In code. Real code has scars. You can see where someone tried something stupid at two in the morning, got it working, and never touched it again. There’s a weird indentation that no one can explain. Variable names start sensible, then drift into chaos. Half a function is commented out “just in case.” ...

I love my new blog website. I like to share useful things I found or did. I prefer to post content that’s educational, but not dry. A more personal take-you-by-the-hand-and-pull-you-along kind of educational. I like to think that’s pretty much the style I have. There’s an issue, though, I also want to yap about other things that may not have any educational value. Just thoughts or experiences or ideas. Straight from my head to this website. ...

I’ve mentioned before that I have my website’s repository mirrored across multiple Git hosts. Well, it is not just the website; it is all my repositories. I have four hosts, namely: GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, and Bitbucket. This is overkill, I know. I really like it, though. It gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling knowing my precious crap is safe. If one host goes down, I’ve got three others. If two go down, there are still two left. And if three go down… well, there’s probably something far more serious going on, but let’s not get distracted. ...