How to create a Solana Token (SPL) from CLI with metadata

I wanted to create an SPL token and after looking online I couldn’t find an updated guide. I mainly just found Keyglowmax (SCAM). So I thought I would learn and share. There are much easier ways to create these tokens but they cost $ and spending more $ than needed is no fun. They also have you connect your wallet which is enough of a worry. This guide costs as little SOL as possible as everything is transacted directly on-chain. Everything is done from the CLI. ...

March 15, 2024 · 9 min · 1729 words · Matt

Configuring Arr Stack

This is blog post 2/2 on setting up a Arr stack using docker. This post will touch on configuring these services and what I have learned when using these services. I will be referring to TRaSH-Guides often in this post. It’s like the bible of the Arr’s so I would look there for more options, especially if your setup differs from mine. Prerequisites Any Usenet Server Subscription (preferred) Any Usenet Indexer Subscription (preferred) Real-Debrid Subscription (if you like torrents being fast) VPN Subscription (Bare minimum needed to download torrents) Configuration Prowlarr We will first start with Prowlarr and Sabnzbd to get all of this out of the way, and it’s the part where you’re gonna spend some $ ...

February 25, 2024 · 13 min · 2706 words · Matt

Docker Compose Arr Stack Guide

This guide is for someone who is looking to setup an Arr Stack for media organization and downloading. This guide requires no remote path mappings, follows Trash-Guides recommendations and every command needed is copy-pasteable. The VM’s in this guide are hosted on Proxmox 8.2.2, but you can use any Ubuntu environment (WSL-2, VirtualBox, etc.) Arr VM Specs: 2 core host 8GB RAM 350GB Storage Prerequisites Ubuntu 22.04 Any Usenet Server Subscription (preferred) Any Usenet Indexer Subscription (preferred) Real-Debrid Subscription (if you like torrents being fast) VPN Subscription (Bare minimum needed to download torrents) Folder Structure Setup Run this command to make all folders, following TRASH-guides recommended naming scheme: ...

February 23, 2024 · 4 min · 817 words · Matt

Network Traffic Map

This is just a visual representations of how my current setup flows. I have some of the docker-compose files that make up this infra on my Forgejo

August 31, 2023 · 1 min · 27 words · Matt

Software

Just a straight forward list of pretty much everything that makes up my homelab. Or systems I’ve ran in the past. Operating Systems Ubuntu 24.04 Ubuntu 22.04 (primary on most systems) CentOS/Fedora 38 (only when Ubuntu doesnt play nice) Debian 11 Proxmox 8 Windows 10/11 TrueNAS Scale (virtualized) CasaOS (zimaboard) pfSense Applications/Containers Nginx Proxy Manager Nginx Apache2 Traefik Authentik Portainer Yacht AdGuardHome Pihole Wazuh Zabbix Uptime Kuma Ghost (this blog) Wordpress Hydroxide (proton mail bridge) Calibre Smokeping Openspeedtest Grafana Prometheus InfluxDB PostgresSQL MySQL Watchtower Apache Guacamole Ansible Terraform Packer Vaultwarden Kasm Workspaces Jellyfin Plex Twingate Tailscale Headscale Wireguard LinkStack N8N Gotify Nextcloud Immich AI ...

August 26, 2023 · 1 min · 124 words · Matt

Hardware

Most of my infrastructure is hosted on my in-lab Proxmox server, along with a few new machines for dedicated services. Here are some of the specs of some of the in-lab machines. Proxmox Node 1 CPU: Intel Core i7-9700K GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB RAM: 64GB DDR4 3000Mhz NVME SSD’s for storage 4x 4TB HDD’s (passthrough to NAS) Proxmox Node 2 CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 6GB RAM: 64GB DDR4 NVME SSD’s for storage Gaming PC ...

August 25, 2023 · 1 min · 171 words · Matt