iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“Is it just me or is it getting hot in here?” *fwoooosh*

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I’ve followed you on threads for a minute. Why did I just now think to look for you here‽ 🥵

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Incidentally, every time I listen to his Mandelbrot Set song I assume the line “One bad ass fucking Phraktyl” is directly referencing me. I would get that tattooed under my actual Mandelbrot set tattoo if he ever autographed that for me.

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I listened to the @jonathancoulton.bsky.social Best. Concert. Ever. album. I figured the song First of May made that an excellent option.

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I put it up a few weeks ago and he’s there waiting for me almost every morning!

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I’m sorry for your loss. 🫂 No dogs currently, but there’s one of our cats warning his keep as my supervisor.

Our elder cat Frodo, perched in his supervisory position on his cat bed mounted to my desk. I’m deep in the middle of an organizing project, so we’re not going to talk about how messy my desk is.

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This desk-mounted cat bed may be the best thing I’ve ever bought.

My very messy desk with a round cat bed about 8 inches over it on the right side, mounted to the side of the desk. There is an older gray cat sleeping curled in the bed. He’s my supervisor. I’m in the middle of reorganizing which is (currently rely) why the desk is a disaster.

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Just had a decent size 3D print finish. It doesn’t get much closer than this! @prusa3d.com @polymaker.bsky.social

The side of a Prusa CORE One L printer with an empty cardboard Polymaker filament spool and the last about an inch of filament sticking out of the PTFE tube. Don’t get on me because I’m running a 1kg spool on a 2kg roller. Nobody has time for switching those out. Please ignore the stacks of half used and empty spools in the background. I’m currently printing a storage solution.

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Honestly, this kind of thing is what I’ve been letting Claude code do at home while I figure out larger picture things.

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I feel you! It took me forever to figure out that the reason my ssh certs weren’t working the first time I set them up was a directory permissions problem. It’s always something small. Or DNS.

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I recently pared mine down to 350, and I totally get it. I do the same thing to figure out where it lives. I think I’ve gotten a lot more organized recently though!

iOS Home Screen showing over 100 apps mostly neatly organized in folders. The top corners and bottom row apps not in folders are the ones I use most often.

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

What a fantastic aesthetic! 😍😈

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

So happy I could help! Love you my friend! ❤️

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

It’s yet another reminder you have to do more with less to make it!

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I’ve just looked through over 30 AC adapters I have around my desk. Not a single one matches the 19V 4.74A I need for this NUC. And none are close enough to work. Where did I put that thing‽‽ The ugly side of a #homelab

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Ahhh, yes. That panicked feeling when your internet goes down, and you recall unplugging an unlabeled raspberry pi in your own networking closet that turns out is your updated Pi-Hole server. Remember kids, it’s always DNS. #IAmAProfessional

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

No idea why I’ve been having issues with my 3D prints. #3dprinting #ankermakem5 #eufymakem5

A photo of my old hot end and nozzle from my AnkerMake M5. It has a ridiculous amount of melted filament stuck on the block and the nozzle. Actually, I can only assume there is a nozzle under there. I can’t see it at all. There’s also a layer of fine dust coating everything.

I’m replacing the hot end (but I couldn’t find the better all metal hot end anywhere, boooo) with a new one, and putting on a new DiamondBack nozzle. That should fix a lot of the issues I’ve been having.

Well, the 3D printing issues anyway. I still have a ton of other issues.

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Homelab update! Nutanix wasn’t it. Didn’t like my hardware. So I’m running @proxmox.bsky.social And in this screenshot, I’m in a hotel on an iPad Pro using @tailscale.com to get to my lab, and installing Windows Server 2022 for AD/ DNS/ DHCP for the lab. It’s surreal how seamless Tailscale works.

An iPad screen shot of the Windows Server 2022 installer. It’s running in a console window of Proxmox, over a Tailscale connection from my hotel to my lab network at home, which was ridiculously easy to set up. I cannot begin to describe to you how much it hurts my soul to install Windows anywhere in my lab, but it will be good experience I suppose. I’ve never heard of a corporation using Red Hat IdM for its main authentication management. Anyway, it will be fun!

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

When you import two 3d models at once and forget to make sure they both start on the bed. #orcaslicer #ankermakem5 #3dprintermistakes

A photo of an AnkerMake build plate with the upper and lower halves of a Raspberry Pi case in black PETG. The smaller base on the right was set up correctly. The upper half on the left however is sitting on top of a half inch mess of supports because I failed to ensure it was sitting on the axis before I printed it. That’s going to be fun to clean up. Luckily it’s getting stuffed into the back of the printer enclosure so niceness isn’t a factor.

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

That’s me, looking at the gaping holes in my resume where “Cloud” and “AI” would go if I didn’t work in aerospace.

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I’m just doing low key things. @vanessak.bsky.social has her Grace cosplay (from @ibcomics.bsky.social) on Saturday and then low key the other days I think?

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The install failed after booting successfully from all of those. But Rufus on my work Windows laptop? Worked first time. That feels targeted. I shouldn’t need a Windows host to make your thumb drive. Anyway, we’ll be at LA ComicCon this weekend so next update will probably be Monday. Yay!

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Homelab day 3: it’s alive! The SFP model arrives so I was able to connect the lab switch to the router and configure that. Next frustration was that there’s apparently no way to write the Nutanix ISO to a USB drive successfully in macOS. Using dd don’t work. balenaEtcher. UNetBootIn didn’t work.

Dashboard of my new three node Nutanix CE cluster. I know what a handful of these things are but it’s mostly foreign after a career in VMWare. There are some errors and warnings that I’ll dive into tomorrow.

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

So for now, I’ll be waiting for the Trendnet 1g SFP RJ45 module to get here tomorrow it looks like. I’ll probably still include that router though to isolate the cluster. Plus I know nothing about routerOS so that’s fun.

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Homelab adventures day 2: I thought I had a workaround when I found a Mikrotik Hex S router with an SFP port in one of my drawers. I used one of the DAC cables I have for the servers, but that didn’t play well with the Trendnet 10g switch. I was hoping they would auto-negotiate to 1g.

A partial view of a messy home lab deal. An 8U 10” rack is in the forefront, with three Minisforum MS-01 computers and a Trendnet 8 port 10g switch. There are two highlighter green DAC cables coming from the back of each server to the 10g switch, nicely cable-tied. A failed boot of the Nutanix CE installer sits on an LCD screen in the background.

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I wouldn’t even go that far. I just want the President to be humble enough to have (and listen to) smart advisors. I get that no one can know everything, but the smart ones know what they don’t know and will seek out the appropriate counsel.

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The MS-01 on paper looked fantastic for this project, but this is already becoming a problem. Next update I guess Wednesday when that SFP+ module shows up.

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

And the install fails without an active connection (also really?? How would I install it on an air-gapped network?), so now I have to order an RJ45 SFP+ module to connect my 10g and 2.5g switches (at 1g of course *headdesk*) so these can all access the internet and I can get Nutanix installed.

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Home lab adventures: Day 1 installing a three node Nutanix cluster onto Minisforum MS-01 hosts failed miserably. No Intel 2.5Gb drivers (really?!), so my initial idea of bonding the two 10g NICs for inter-cluster comms and using the 2.5g for external is now scrapped.

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Wow. I don’t know how my mind went to SSX first, but that’s very different! 🤣

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I’m 90% Apple, with a handful of RHEL/ Rocky hosts and a couple of Kali. Oh, and Raspberry Pi OS. (And for just a little bit longer a venerable Gentoo server I originally built over twenty years ago, which is getting replaced with Rocky soon.)

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t even have words. I’m so, so sorry. *hugs offered*

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

This looks like fun! Added it to my wishlist. Really hoping I can run it on a Mac!

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Hehe. bsky.app/profile/phra...

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

If violating consent is the only way you see to further your industry, you’re thinking about it wrong.

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

The difference is that you deserve to have that confidence!

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

An AI tip for you: use an abstraction layer by calling @kdraggoo.bsky.social and describing the prompts you want him to ask while you’re driving.

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I feel like you learned these lessons from experience. 👀

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Wyatt Draggoo @phraktyl.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Wait, is this a thing? I’ve been using them for decades! Started when I used LaTeX for writing papers and documentation, and then never stopped.

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