Charlie Pitkin

Charlie Pitkin (6)

Hardcore Techie, Lover of Open Source, Casual Gamer (Opions are my own)

Google Photos Backup Assistant

My wife and I have been travelling around the world for the past two years. This means we take a lot of photos. Since we're Android users, we use Google Photos as our primary photo editing and storage solution. The sync feature keeps our phone's…

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Amazon Wishlist Price Check

My wife reads a lot of books. I try to keep up but barely manage to read twelve in a year. She likes physical copies, but since we started traveling full-time this isn’t an option. Our local library offers a digital library card to check…

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Automated Video Transcoding with OpenFaaS

Purpose I have a very large movie collection and use Plex to keep it organized and easy to manage. That means a lot of storage space is needed for movie files, especially when they are Blue-ray. To save space on disk while maintaining the good…

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Setup OpenFaaS Nomad with Puppet

Services Docker Nomad Consul OpenFaaS Setup We’re going to be using Puppet to bootstrap Docker, Consul, and Nomad. Login and gain root access Install Puppet for your Ubuntu LTS version. Debian also works but for the sake of this tutorial we are going be to…

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Redirect Test CLI

I work for an agency that runs a lot of client sites. We rarely get to build the first site to ever be served from a new domain. Since most of the work we do is taking the old outdated stuff and giving it new…

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