2025-12-13 Notes

Goals + Recap

Look at The Big Plan (Done! 🎉🎉🎉), to see if anything needs adding or changing
Made steady progress yesterday. Got both my websites moved over
Sent my last newsletter of the year. Decided to do that, in case Sendy crashed and burned during the move and I couldn’t send stuff
Today
- Change fan on the Pi 5
- Move kanboard to the cluster
- Update image repositories for both websites + kanboard + miniflux, so they update automatically
- Client call
- Move baikal to the cluster (if possible)

The 3rd party fan/heatsink on the Pi5 finally gave up the ghost. Thankfully, I saw it coming and ordered an officially Raspberry Pi fan now. I’d kept the original case as well. So off came the old and in went the new fan. My music server is back online!
2025-12-13 08:00: Updated my Papermod theme. Everything went off without a hitch.
2025-12-13 08:14: Got today’s note up and running. Now to tackle kanboard, before the client call at 11.

Will move Baikal first before doing creating image updations for all the stuff I’ve moved
Pointed the URL to the new server, and disabled the site in nginx, so that nothing touches the old stuff now. Hopefully DNS will timeout and point to the new server shortly

Done with Baikal. Moved data from the old machine and into the new cluster. All is well!
Everything’s changed behind the scenes and my phone and computer just chug along like nothing’s happened. Gives me quite a thrill!
Now to go do my client call
*2025-12-13 13:40: Done with the meeting. Off to my lunch break.

Back at work. Had another meeting and then a tea break
Now I understand why PVC. The backing storage could change tomorrow, but as long as I can mount it with a name at a path, nothing changes for my app. The other way around too. The app could keep changing, but as long as the data is kept away from it and accessed in the right manner, (is it a db that allows multiple access? or a file that only a single thread can touch at one time?), it’s all cool
2025-12-13 17:55: Not touching image stuff for Baikal. Need to figure out how to filter out a custom thing from a tag.
Got Kanboard to update! Now to Nginx for both the websites
2025-12-13 18:27: Both sites automatically updated to the latest version of Nginx!
2025-12-13 19:20: Got baikal up and updating too! It needed a tiny bit of regex to filter the tag.
2025-12-13 19:40: Think I’ve done all the low hanging fruit. Now to tackle the rest, one by one Monday onwards Some will mean moving things to my desktop (the Mastodon mirror script) and some will probably mean creating my own docker images (anki) and finally some I’ll just have to be really careful migrating data over (sendy)

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