thein3rovert Log 1767908125
thein3rovert-log: December 15 – 20, 2025
2025-12-15
It has been a long time since I updated my resume, and since I have learned quite a lot recently, I think it is finally time to give it an update. Lately, I have been switching teams frequently at work to find those that align better with my goals. Although I am a placement student and this is my time to explore, I sometimes worry about how others might perceive these changes.
I also need to self-host FossFlow on my server. It is an isometric diagramming tool I use for my infrastructure, and while I currently use the public version, it lacks persistence; self-hosting will allow me to enable storage so my data isn't cleared every time I refresh the browser. Additionally, I discovered a tool called Sando (Security AND Dhcp Offer) on Reddit. It uses NetFlow under the hood, so I am looking into integrating goflow2—a high-performance collector found in the NixOS repo—into my homelab.
Technical Automation and Configurations
2025-12-16
I successfully created agenix secrets for my Garage admin_token and rpc_secret. I am also trying to figure out a way to track automated ticket creation to avoid duplicates. Since the data is extracted from my notes using Claude code, I worry that similar descriptions might trigger duplicate tickets if I carry a task over to the next day.
On the editor front, I am updating my Neovim config and wrote a script to automate the installation of necessary packages like build-essential, luarocks, ripgrep, and tree-sitter.
2025-12-17
I discovered that you can use full JavaScript in n8n checkboxes. This is much more powerful than simple drag-and-drop, as it allows for complex conversions, such as mapping an array of months to lowercase. I have added an If node to validate inputs for my ticket creation workflow to ensure they are the correct types.
Home for the Holidays
2025-12-19 — 2025-12-20
I am finally home for the holidays with my family. I missed them so much and it is great to play with my brothers and sisters and eat good food again. My sister even made a very interesting orange and carrot juice that I absolutely love.
Technically, I created a flakepart module for my NixOS configuration, but I haven't connected it to my main flake.nix yet. Since I am not home, if the change breaks my server, I won't be able to fix it manually, so I am holding off for now.