A Geekier Blog… A place to reference different tech writeups and other technical content I wrote or contributed to over the years. As much as some of those posts are not intended as opinion pieces, their content is opinionated as I propose solutions based on the technologies I use.
Revision at the top of each post informs the reader when content is changed. Its naming convention is YYYYMMDD-Rev with Rev, a number that has increased from 0. For example, 20240229-0 is the initial release for 2024-02-29. Details pertinent to those changes will be documented in a "Revision History" section at the end of the document. I likely will not increase numbers when adjusting sentences, formatting, or grammatical content.init revision value) will have a Rev: MM/DD entry in its title to quickly identify updates. 
docker compose setup for HomePage with Dashdot and Watchtower widgets from Komodo or Dockge, including detailing the dashboard setup for a multi-tab layout with four sections of content: system metrics, static content, dynamic applications (docker service discovery), and service monitors.
This guide details how to deploy Traefik using Docker compose (with Dockge) and Cloudflare as our DNS Challenge provider to generate Let’s Encrypt certificates for local infrastructure (not internet-accessible) and use basic authentication to protect the Traefik Dashboard. The configuration files presented can also be used with other deployment methods, such as Unraid.
The following uses the https://github.com/ostris/ai-toolkit GitHub repository to train a local LoRA on user-provided images. We will then create images using the generated LoRA with ComfyUI. Running this tool requires an Nvidia GPU with 24GB of VRAM. We will train on Ubuntu 24.04 with a recent Nvidia driver installed, git, brew (to install useful commands), and Python (python3 with pip3 and the venv package installed, either via apt or brew)