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Eric @ericraslich.com · 19/12/2025

And in today's baby-sysadmin/homelab adventures: tailscale is indeed extremely easy to use and really just worked. Goal is to eventually move to bare wireguard when I learn more, but dang if this wasn't a good first experience.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 02/12/2025

Immich is such a great intro to self hosting. Their docs are fairly straightforward, I don’t think I did much of anything to customize the docker install other than throttling the ML container resources because it’s running on a 4Gb Raspberry pi 4. The mobile app is also excellent for casual backup.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 01/12/2025

A Man on the Inside is Knives Out for millennials whose parents are aging.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 24/11/2025

We lost Jimmy Cliff. A true mover, great human, and entry point for a ton of cultural discovery for me. youtu.be/QYtIT6J7G10?...

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Jimmy Cliff: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert From The Archives

YouTube video by NPR Music

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 24/11/2025

Wasn't successful in my first IT interview, so I'm labbing hard at home and going to make one of these interviews stick soon. If you are looking for an experienced communicator, fast learner, knowledgeable nerd/developer/tech support guy, please reach out. I'd love to chat about how I can help.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 13/11/2025

I stopped using most meta products, but I get 1-3 emails a day about someone trying to reset the password in my instagram account. If there’s one thing I’d teach the youths it would be the internet doesn’t just remember the embarrassing things, it makes you have to defend

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 11/11/2025

Remento has been invaluable for documenting my dad's life while he's still able to recall the details. I know it'll be a wonderful gift to our family, including him, eventually.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 06/11/2025

Having to tighten the belt with subscriptions now that we're down to one income (I'm available for ericraslich.com/hire/! Put me at your help desk!) I absolutely cannot budget for DOUBLE the price for Todoist. Really grateful they're keeping the Legacy Pro pricing for now. But wow $60/year is a lot.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 25/09/2025

Really love the random quotes on the @adafruit.com website. Haven't gotten one that didn't seem curated for shoppers like myself.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 01/09/2025

"Out of band" and "sneaker net" are some of my favorite computing concepts. Need that secure message passed? Walk it down the hall.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 23/08/2025

Home Alone-ing the house so my dog doesn't get anxious when we leave. A trick I didn't realize we could do.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 12/08/2025

I'm thinking @livestore.dev might be something I want to try for a little @nuxt.com app. Does anyone know of an example repo I could check out for inspiration? I think the todo app might get me pretty far, but it's the Nuxt integration I'm curious about.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 03/07/2025

Now this is good framing.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 01/03/2025

Sometimes I have a long Saturday commute and I was saving up podcasts for it. Bummer they’re all out of date re: the New World Order after Friday.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 07/02/2025

Almost started building a Nuxt flashcard/spaced repetition program, then I tried Anki for the first time which is... kind of amazing.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 04/02/2025

Sleepy babies are simply the best.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 28/01/2025

First time listening into the space station! Signal stick on my metal roof in florida with a simple baofeng uv-5r. What a fun experience. Lost contact in south florida around 12:33 EST.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 28/01/2025

I think even this summary doesn’t get the point across. Grants are basically buying services for the people of the United States. Sure, they may be a little less profit defined at times, but there are usually rigorous outcomes defined. This is how we get new medicines and technology and research.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 04/01/2025

Using the free Severance Apple TV weekend to watch Bad Monkey because South Florida/Keys/Bahamas.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

All these goobers posting airplanes and stars thinking they’re drones made me realize that if there was social media 500 years ago, a bunch of people would have been sharing pictures labeled “omg a mermaid” with community notes like “that’s a rock” and “manatee.”

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 18/12/2024

Who's working FT8 on 20m right now? Any cool stations I should be on the lookout for? #hamradio

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 13/12/2024

What the fuck is this YouTube ad selling replica firearms that shoot rubber bullets? Straight garbage. Can’t look up radios or outdoor stuff without being thrown into the bucket that gets you all the “patriot” toilet paper and prepper nonsense ads.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 12/12/2024

Electronics folks: Is a usb-C soldering iron (pine64) workable? I can’t decide between that and a Harbor Freight starter kit to start building amateur radio antennas (so not super detail work).

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 12/12/2024

Hey @wesbos.com didn’t you have a usb-C soldering iron you liked? Is it the Pine64? I can’t decide between that and a Harbor Freight starter kit to start building amateur radio antennas (so not super detail work).

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 27/11/2024

I hope @theonion.com ‘s next distressed asset purchase is all of 23 and Me’s data.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 27/11/2024

Made my first few FT8 contacts on 20m tonight. Icom 7100, 40% power, inverted vee speaker wire antenna hanging off my porch. One in Minnesota, one in Mexico City, from South Florida. A little anticlimactic, but nothing burnt up! Next time will be better I’m sure!

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 26/11/2024

The dog is simply, comfortably handsome.

Brown dog on a blanket on a couch, looking relaxed.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 24/11/2024

Making a lot of trips to Miami for our OB appointments these days, and I can always tell which podcasts were downloaded on the trip because all my dynamically inserted ads are in espańol. Which I love because while I do speak un poco + free practice, I love wasted marketing dollars more.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 24/11/2024

The paradise tree is coming along nicely!

Small brown dog laying in front of a paradise tree sapling

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 24/11/2024

Clearly the “govt is good, actually” is a nonstarter. We need to 1.) humanize govt workers (your hard working neighbor) and 2.) be extremely clear about the first order benefits that people are getting from their tax dollars. National parks are a great example, national weather service is another.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 23/11/2024

Okay ham radio is crazy. $1200 radio? Power supply that only gives that *clean* power but costs >$200? Now throw this old $3 spool of wire from a garage sale over that tree branch and talk to Mozambique from Iowa.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 22/11/2024

A blocklist for anyone that talks about follower numbers.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 22/11/2024

Yeah this is actually a really great list. Quite a few, you know, left media folks if you don’t want that, but otherwise probably the best “left twitter want to get started but don’t want a single topic list”-list.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 20/11/2024

I collect silly hobbies like it's my hobby. In other news, found a good deal on an ICOM-7100 so I am very excited to send silly little digital call signs across the world. Going to get on the nerdy side of the already nerdy ham radio situation.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 19/11/2024

I honestly never get tired of it. Modern marvel we take for granted.

The southernmost extent of highway US 1 running through a chain of islands.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 19/11/2024

A list exists: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 17/11/2024

Dear god the Lions need to remember those Jaguars have families that they are going to have to see at dinner tonight and explain what happened.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 17/11/2024

Florida Keys weather has finally reached downright amazing. Ready to begin some parental leave and enjoy it full-time-ish. #florida

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 16/11/2024

I want to hear from the folks out here hosting their own PDS. Would consider myself semi-technically literate, have a $4 Digital Ocean droplet set up and ready, but already running nginx not caddy. How close am I to inviting my friends to play around with Bluesky with custom subdomain-identities?

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 15/11/2024

In exchange for my pessimistic posts, here is a dog.

A brown dog posed like it is running while laying on a couch.

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 15/11/2024

I found that a lot of the people I *wanted* to follow on twitter were all in their own private beta over here. Since I wasn't a fun insider, no invite. Twitter became the black hole for terrible people, the fun popular people came over here, that's why the new folks see all the "wow isn't it grand"

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 14/11/2024

But on the bright side, @theonion.com bought Infowars? Amazing good news for once. Congratulations everyone involved in that bid!

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Eric @ericraslich.com · 14/11/2024

I want some place to be my sole social media for a while. But I *need* it to provide context and stay relevant. No "look at this amazing viral human story" that happened in 2017. No "this dog got the family it deserved" being retweeted into my feed constantly by folks with good original content : (

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