Writing / 2010 to present
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2026
LOGMiddle-Click Paste Broke After Upgrading to Fedora 44
I upgraded to Fedora 44 a few days ago and immediately noticed something was wrong in GNOME Terminal. Highlighting text no longer felt like it was copying anything, and middle-click paste ha…
2025
LOGGithub Pages
If you're looking to deploy a website quickly and easily, GitHub offers a fantastic service called GitHub Pages . GitHub Pages is a static site hosting service that takes HTML, CSS, and Java…
GitOps: Transforming Deployment with Automation and Version Control
What is GitOps? GitOps is a way to manage infrastructure and application deployments using Git as the single source of truth. It focuses on: Declarative configurations: The desired state of …
2024
LOGKubevirt
I believe everything that can be done inside a VirtualMachine can be done just as well or better inside a pod on kubernetes. However, if you insist on using a VM, or have legacy code you do …
The Case for Ten Gig
My good friend Jeff Moore challenged me to compare my storage speeds with his homelab setup (knowing his would be perform better). So I obliged and learned a few things in the process, which…
End of an Era
For the past few weeks, I have been migrating all my hosted services over to my new kubernetes cluster running mainly in my house. It was a good amount of work requiring me to write CI/CD pi…
Multi Arch Hybrid Cloud
A new friend of mine wanted to pair program on an interesting challenge, something that was relevant to DevOps and would require a Kubernetes cluster. So in order to prepare for our working …
A Good CI System
What makes a good Continuous Integration system? I believe a good CI system should Require minimal to no effort on the part of the Application Developers to maintain. handle common tasks lik…
My Time at CVS
I joined CVS Health around August back in 2021, I was coming out of a five year relationship with my previous company and looking forward to a new environment. I had interviewed with Derek J…
2023
LOGErrors
Over the Thanksgiving week, the atmosphere was delightful with Liz, Brad, and Maggie visiting from out of town along with their families. The children reveled in playing with their cousins. …
Double Speed
Family was sick this weekend so we took it easy. Leah and I have become big Carolina Hurricanes fans and got season tickets this year. However when they are on the road, the only way to watc…
Large Language Model: A Journey into AI and PC Upgrades
I found myself feeling unfulfilled on a Saturday, watching some rather lackluster football games. It was then that I decided I wanted to dive into the world of Large Language Models (LLMs), …
Enterprise Linux
My first attempt at using Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) was back in my silver spring appartment soon after getting married. I was working as an accountant at a small business, and started t…
Mifare Ultralight Ev1 48
We went on vacation to our condo in Myrtle Beach this week. The water was warm, and the fireworks went all night every day. The kids seemed to have a good time, my sister and parents also ca…
2021
LOGBabo Is Dead Long Live Babo
It is the end of an era, today I have shut off the "master" server for baboviolent 2 , that people could connect to and see other babo servers to play on. BV2 was a really fun top …
Covid Data as of 9-29-2021
I recently created a stock price operator for Kubernetes , to gather the current price of stock for a list of tickers the user defines. Doing so, I learned the same API I was using for the s…
2019
LOGUgly Drum Smoker
My old horizontal barrel grill was falling apart, so I set out to replace it. After looking at Big Green Egg and Kamodo Joe reviews they seemed awesome, but the price was crazy and I didn't …
How to setup travis-ci with goreleaser for automated binary golang releases
I have been enjoying writing golang applications for a few years now, and I naively assumed other people who wanted to use them could easily build the apps with instructions I provided easy …
2017
LOGSweet pawn shop find
I have recently started hobbying with pawn shop guitars, found this LTD a few months ago for $100, noticed it had Seymour Duncans humbucking pickups installed. The guitar was going for $300 …
The flag, the national anthem, and what they mean to me.
My earliest memory of reverence for the flag, was seeing it flying on a huge pole in front of my Grandpa’s house. We would go see him once a year for thanksgiving and my cousins would come a…
Old School Football review – 1991 #1 Florida State vs Tulane
Casey Weldon, and Amp Lee tear up the Tulane Defense all game, doing anything they want. 31 points before getting pulled at the end of the third. Brad Johnson comes in at the beginning of th…
I wrote a sms survey application
My pastor was looking for a sms survey service, requirements: A number to give out, a way to gather the responses, and something easy to use. Since I work at a telephone company, I decided j…
Old School Football review – 1991 Pigskin Classic #1 Florida State vs #19 BYU
I recently started watching old school football games, so I figured I would write a review while I am at it. I love the Noles, so I will be watching their games. The year is 1991, FSU is pre…
I wrote a gotosleep daemon
I watch youtube / twitch at night to go to sleep to. I am too lazy to open a command line and say shutdown in 120 minutes or so. So instead I wrote a tool, which reads a config, and shuts do…
Scrambled egg and bacon on toasted potato bread sammitch
Stole most of the recipe from http://allrecipes.com/recipe/239871/toms-scrambled-egg-sandwich/ . Fry 3 strips of bacon, leave grease in pan, set cooked bacon aside. put two pieces of bread i…
Mothers day Wings
Did pancakes, bacon, cinnamon rolls, and mimosas’s for brunch, Leah cooked it all up, it was too delicious to take pictures of. Ended up doing grilled wings for dinner, shoulda cooked 4-5 mo…
I got DK64 working again
About 16 years ago a low life scum bag stole my Expansion Card for the N64. This was needed for DK64 to work, so since then I have not been able to play. I finally bit the bullet and purchas…
Bacon Wrapped, Old Bay Seasoned, Ribeye Burgers, dressed with East Carolina Vinegar based BBQ sauce
Leah said it was burger night, so might as well do it right. Bought a ribeye steak, then sliced it up and cut off the excess fat and tissue (leave some of the fat, otherwise you get a dry bu…
I wrote https://soh.re from scratch go check it out
I have always wanted a interactive website that looks like a Linux shell. When @ChrisShort tweeted about GoTTY, I knew I had the essential piece I was missing. GoTTY – Share Your Linux Termi…
Got the PizzaKettle working on the third try
First two were pretty meh, but attempt number #3 came out tonight. Things I did different this time, using my own pizza pan instead of the included one, kept the pizza stone in the entire ti…
BBQ Day was a success
Did a BBQ day, our good friends Dustin and Liz came to help eat it all. Wings, Ribs, and slow cooked pulled pork. It was great. Aux grill, to get coals hot enough to transfer to pig grill Fa…
A full morning
Went to the store for some drip pans, put the pork on the bbq, made flapjacks. Mmmm delicious flapjacks. 6 pounds, bone in. Cook for 6ish hours at 250, Flapjacks and Sausage on the griddle L…
I had lunch today and bought some cigar boxes
Barrett asked for pictures from Lunch, so here they are. He is a jerk and should come to lunch next time. They make some great food here. I got the buffalo chicken wrap today. My table for t…
My minecraft business is dead
I started a minecraft business to help pay for hosting my own minecraft server. It blew up and I ended up getting alot of customers really quick. I stopped marketing to get new clients about…
I made a guitar hanger
I need more guitar hangers, and they cost $10 a pop from amazon, also I can only place them on studs, which limits where I can place them. The solution was a guitar hanger which ended up cos…
Cooked some Barbacoa
Made some Barbacoa for burrito’s tonight, really turned out great. You sear some chuck roast, mix a bunch of other stuff in a blender, then pour over the beef in a slow cooker, cook up for 6…
I made some burgers
I decided to make some burgers for dinner. Went to the store and got boneless chuck eye steak, some chips, potato bread, and soda. Got home and cut up the chuck into small enough chunks to f…
Ho made pizza night
I enjoy pizza, so I decided to make some. Made the dough yesterday, let it sit overnight in the fridge, then topped and baked tonight. Delicious Dough coming out of the fridge. Topped with F…
2016
LOGI handmade a guitar
Finally wrapped up my big guitar project. Finished the guitar yesterday and learned how to play it correctly today (have to use a slide or it wont sound right). Pretty happy with how it turn…
I made some Audio cables
I needed a 3.5mm to 3.5mm to connect my digital to audio connect (dac) to my headphone amp (which makes headphones sound better). So I spent alot of time last week and made one. love that co…
I built a workbench
I needed a workbench to start on my new hobbies and projects. So I went ahead and built one. I needed a bench that could fold up as the Wife and I both park inside the garage and refuse to g…
Openshift online is cool if you play by the rules
So my good buddy Andrew Butcher @akbutcher took pity on me and pointed me in the right direction. After rebuilding the docker container on the assumption that any random user could be runnin…
You can’t push a docker image to Openshift and just run it
So I just finished wasting 3 hours of my life trying to get a docker image to run on Redhats PAAS openshift online, and I failed. In short, you can push a docker image to openshift, but it i…
Seth’s Funeral – Saturday at 11am in Garner, NC
Funeral services will be held on Saturday April 30th at 11:00am at Triangle Baptist Church. The address is 9713 Old Stage Rd, Raleigh, NC 27603. Following the service, a reception will be he…
Seth Mainguy has passed
Today Seth passed away. 8/20/14 – 4/23/16 Editor's note, August 24, 2026: I was in so much pain when I wrote this, and I wanted people to understand how badly I hurt. It still hurts to think…
The original pokemon is pretty bad
Got nostalgic, installed retro-pi on my raspberry pi and been playing Pokemon Red on it. It is not as good as I remembered it. First, despite being for the Game Boy Color, its not in color. …
2015
LOGMy son has Leukemia
At Seth’s one year checkup we found a blood anomaly, after talking to a specialist in Chapel Hill, it turned out to be AML Leukemia. So far we have completed two 30 day rounds of inpatient h…
Install Cyanogenmod 12.1 on Galaxy S3
Phone broke over the weekend, now I get to use the wife’s old S3 to replace my S3, I hope it can do the job =). I insist on using cyanogenmod on my phones as its an awesome OS. This is how I…
Chasing the cheese truck #AmericanMeltdown
Today I was lucky enough to be able to chase the cheese truck. If you work at a cool place, they will have the cheese truck come to your place around lunch time. Redhat did that for us almos…
sinatrarb-virt-manager
A client asked me to write him a web app, which would let him stop/start/restart his VM’s he hosts via libvirt. This is the initial implementation to answer his request. I next need to add l…
Root your host in 2 easy steps with Docker
So lets assume jmainguy is a user on your system, and he asks to be added to the docker group so he can spin up docker containers and such, seems like a fairly reasonable request. You add hi…
deleting files with sinatrarb
With sinatrarb you can create a quick web app in ruby very easily, their documentation is great. http://www.sinatrarb.com/intro.html One thing you can do, is send a file, like say a tar file…
2014
LOGFuck Lenovo and their T540P
Seriously, fuck them and every fucking engineer and designer they have on staff that gave this model a thumbs up. Pros: beast cpu, 8 cores of 2.7ghz i7 beast ram, 16 fucking gigs of ram beas…
2013
LOGDelete email template duplicates from WHMCS
After upgrading WHMCS this weekend I noticed I had duplicate email templates. I used the following sql to delete them. CREATE TABLE new_table AS SELECT * FROM tblemailtemplates WHERE 1 GROUP…
Lynchburg for the weekend
Headed to Lynchburg for the weekend. Hit me up if you want to hang out.
Miami Dolphins #1
I am pysched for tonights game, the first step towards our dominance of the AFC East. However Let me say a few things about our team. Ryan Tannehill is a mediocre wide receiver, his backup i…
Blake hotel survey
The Blake hotel in Charlotte is awful, but they asked me to fill out a survey to get a grip on my experience. Here it is, [ Warning curse words] There is nowhere to idle car while checking i…
Moral Dilemma
My moral dilemma for the day made me realize I might be more nerdy then I thought I was. Do I play Dungeons and Dragons tonight, or go to the Triangle linux user group meeting.
Got him
We got the terrorist alive, go America. Editor's note, August 24, 2026: This post was about the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on April 19, 2013 . He and his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, carrie…
Working from home today
My Office in the bedroom Hallway between Bedroom and Leah’s office Leah’s unpacked office with temp desk until real one is procured.
All moved in
The move took about 3 hours today. Nile and Chris helping made a huge job easy. Definitely worn out now but enjoying the media room. The couch is comfy, fights are good to watch and the girl…
Old Glory
Old Glory The new house came with a flag pole and flag, reminds me of Grandpa Creel
Officially Homeowners
Finally signed all the papers and got the Keys. Leah and I are now officially homeowners / Slaves to the bank. Original art piece I created on our bedroom wall. Back sliding doors Political …
2012
LOGThe house has a Carport
Picture of the beast carport where I will be setting up a basketball hoop.
Under Contract
The sellers have agreed to all terms and we have a signed contract. Now the mad rush to get inspection and appraisal, its a new house though, not expecting any issues. Very excited.
Countering Counter
Seller came back with a counter, we just finished submitting our counter to said counter. Negotiating is going good, excited.
Linked to Twitter
And now Jmainguy.com is linked to Twitter and Facebook. Editor's note, August 24, 2026: I no longer link this website to Twitter or Facebook. I never really understood Twitter.
Installing Mono 3.0.1 on Centos Linux 6.3
So you want to run windows .exe’s on your shiny Linux server, time to catch mono . To install mono first install your dependencies. yum install bison gettext glib2 freetype fontconfig libpng…
Buying a House
Our negotiations with the first house fell through, the owner was not living in reality and thought his house was worth tax value. However we really love the house we saw yesterday and plac…
Testing Integration with Facebook
I rejoined facebook to boost the ol SEO. This is a test to see if integation with facebook is working. So to get your website to post to Facebook, you have to create a dev account with Faceb…
Hit and Run
Friday night my baby sister went to my cousins a few miles away to babysit for the night. She comes home frantic around 11pm and explains some jerk side swiped her car on her way home. This …
TS3 Non Profit License
The community Teamspeak server has been full lately and we do not want anyone to miss out on the action. Tonight we applied for a Non profit license which will enable us to host up to 512 me…
Smallgrits Macbook
Maggie moved in with us a few weeks ago to attend NC State. Her 2 year old Macbook Pro stopped booting up a few days later. I was able to run a diagnostic on the pc and discovered one of the…
Saturday, Time to do stuff I don’t enjoy
Started the day off by cleaning up the Jmainguy.com site, noticed the A records for mc.jmainguy.com wasn’t correct. After some research saw that I had two A records, removed the bogus record…
Jon’s Monday night
The Hall of Fame NFL game was this past weekend, and I missed it (Was helping a buddy move). So tonight I had to do 2 things before I could relax after a hard day. Configure OpenVPN on my Ge…
Jon cooks a meal
Today for lunch I decided I wanted Grilled Cheese and Tomato soup with Goldfish. There are a few issues with this decision. Leah does not like melted cheese on bread, and refuses to make it …
Success at work yesterday
The web team asked me to help out on two projects yesterday, it was a ton of fun. The first project was to a 301 redirect working for the Iowa Hawkshop, they needed this to preserve their SE…
Church Picnic
Church had a picnic last night, ended up heading out there around 6pm. We setup the lawn chairs we bought for the last picnic and settled in for a good time. There was a local band playing o…
WURM!!!
Started playing Wurm again the other day, I enjoy it quite a bit and hopefully don’t get burned out again. Day 1. Spent the day replanting my crops, mining rocks from the mine, turning said …
Todays Lunch
Went to a Italian place for lunch today, got the Sausage and Peppers panini, it was delicious, after the meal we all noticed the ceiling fan directly above our table. Dust bunny anyone?
Away on Business
Sorry for not updating this at all since before January, life has been going well, I am now drumming for my local church, and this week Sequoia sent me on a install trip to Savannah Georgia.…
2011
LOGRemoved all my friends, I do not intend on using Facebook anymore, it was fun for college but seems pretty pointless now, if people care about me they know me in real life and wont need Face…
New Job, New Town, I love it
Two months since last post, alot has been going on. Within a week of moving to Garner I received a job at a company that acted as middle men for AT&T Cellular tower installations, it was…
Hello North Carolina
It has been a week since we moved to Garner and it has been a great week, the weather is awesome, the apartment is awesome, all the shops within 5 minutes of us is awesome, and it has been g…
Goodbye Maryland
Tomorrow will be my last day as an Employed individual, and Saturday will be my last day as a Maryland resident. I am North Carolina bound, the wife and I will be moving to Garner NC to save…
Vacation
Ft Lauderdale is awesome, we are having a blast. So far we haven’t done much other then visit family but thats what we like to do. It really is a pleasure to be able to relax and not worry a…
Change of Scenery
Going to Ft. Lauderdale for a 5 day weekend starting tomorrow night, really looking forward to seeing all my family down there, and then starting in March I will be seeing alot more of that …
2010
LOGCompTIA A+ Certified
After studying on my own for a few months and utilizing the Mike Meyers A+ book, I took and passed both A+ tests this weekend. This was a huge relief as the A+ rules are changing again in ab…
Another new VPS
the minecraft servers with hazenet didnt turn out the way I liked them, so I have moved them to 123systems which is located in Texas along, the babo servers will stay with hazenet also in te…
Babo Donors
In a span of 3 days after asking for donations, the babo players donated $110.00 or in other words, enough to rent a Virtual private server for 12 months. The server is awesome and way bette…
Minecraft Players Rule
So I have been spending alot of time on the Minecraft server lately, got a google maps image of the server to update every night, Implemented a currency system into the server. And two more …
Whole week no blog?
Sorry about that, Worked on server admin stuff all week, went over my bandwith cap by about 50gb, comcast will prolly send me a letter saying so. Working on automating server restart and bac…
Somebody has a case of the mondays
Weekend went pretty well, saw the folks, went to a party, and Notch broke Minecraft again, however he has it working today so my server regulars should be happy. I also installed Sockso on t…
Registered Sex Offender
As usual watching Netflix and I was cruising the Indie section as sometimes they have a good gem in there, I came across RSO and decided to give it a shot. This movie is a Mockumentary and s…
Remote Support
I have installed a new remote support app on the website, all users have to do is download the program and run it. when the service is over the program deletes itself. pretty cool. Editor's …
Minecraft Donation
About two days ago I asked the people who frequent my servers if they could donate a small amount so I could buy a Minecraft account and not have to borrow from Titans. To my surprise within…
Griefers
Wiped the minecraft server tonight, just way to much griefing to fix, easier to start over. Also Boise State upset VA Tech in football, awesome game. Labor day weekend went pretty well, dad …
Forum was easy
Ok so the forum was actually ridiculously easy to set up after all, downloaded the software, followed the installation guide, then placed the folders inside the index Apache looks at. it loa…
Labor Day weekend
At the folks house on the eastern shore for the weekend, I am in the middle of my needed maintence on their home computer as the kids have loaded it up full of bad programs and such, defragg…
Minecraft
Starting hosting a Minecraft server and playing on Titans account, its alot of fun and very addicting, I wasted alot of time on it today and the day before. I really enjoy building thins in …
Bad mood
Its just on of those days, where you dont want to wake up, everything is fucked, everybody sucks. You dont really know why, but you want to justify, ripping someones head off. I am Eeyore
Babo Weekend
Friday night a little after 6 the rndlabs.ca servers for baboviolent 2 went down, and they haven’t come back up yet. this is the longest period of time that they have been done in the last t…
Fed Up
In the last 30 days I have spent $1,433.19 on stuff other then rent, 24 percent on grocerys, 19 perent on games and movies, 16 percent on gasoline, 12 percent on fast food, and 22 percent on…
Website Headaches
Well I am proud that I have gotten this far, I have completed a Home page, a page dedicated to babo, and now this blog. However I still have a ways to go, I need to get the email server up a…
obert-
This website was built with the help of many individuals who took the time to explain to me my errors and how to fix them, one of them “obert-” from the #wordpress channel on the freenode se…
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