Tim's Blog

Nuget in Powershell

Feb 4, 2021 · 4 min read · powershell

Using nuget stuff in Powershell I was asked to write some automation to deal with several thousand pages of PDF work.. Cool, sounds like something new, and not quite in my wheelhouse, so a good reason to get to some learning. After a bit of searching (and searching through old work), I find that iText7 seems to be the …

PnP Powershell - for Sharepoint

Jan 31, 2021 · 9 min read · Sharepoint Powershell

Work is finally getting around to enabling OneDrive for Business (ODFB) for all our users. This is cool, because finally we'll be able to legit be able to collaborate on stuff - instead of this song and dance of save files to the network, wait for a lock to close and so on. One of the things we ran up against is that …

VSCode, Hugo and developing in Docker

Jan 27, 2021 · 5 min read · Docker Hugo VSCode

I attended the "VS Code Day" event through Meetup, and learned about a neat new function of the IDE for developing in a container. The session was neat and interesting, and opened my eyes up a bit as to what Microsoft intends you to use VSCode for. When thinking about the session afterwards, I was trying to …

Synology, Docker, Pihole and Cloudflare

Jan 17, 2021 · 4 min read · docker synology

A while ago, I got really sick and tired of dealing with the hardware that Telus shipped me for my residential gateway, and so a new "internal" router was added. Things were good, but then I wanted to do network-wide ad blocking (to deal with ads on streaming devices...), but found that even if I specified an …

Gitea and Drone

Jan 13, 2021 · 7 min read · gitea drone docker

How I got here... Part of the whole effort to mess around with Docker was to get a better understanding of what people do for continuous integration and continuous deployment - CICD. There are no shortage of services online that do this for you - Github, Azure Devops, Bitbucket.. are all names that are familiar in …

More Docker

Nov 22, 2020 · 1 min read · docker traefik

So, as it turns out, solving the ToDo's from my last posting was pretty easy. Traefik solved most of the todo's / desired outcomes: Internal ports 80 and 443 were already occupied by other services, such as my wiki, Git repo, etc. Putting these in a container, and letting Traefik handle the path mapping addressed this. …

Docker Registry

Nov 11, 2020 · 6 min read · docker

Learning Docker

I'm still getting my feet wet with Docker, and using it to post my blog page, as well as a few other services that I run for my own usage.. but it didn't take me long to find out about the rate limit that was implemented in early November this year.
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Collaboration!

Oct 18, 2020 · 1 min read · jekyll

When I started looking at a static site, I first poked at Jekyll. I found a basic theme that I like. It had a bit of a failing though - there was an issue if I had the site in a subdirectory (like timatlee.com/blog/), the navigation links at the top of the header wouldn't work. It seemed like there was an assumption …

Playing with Hugo

Oct 17, 2020 · 2 min read · Hugo

I had this bit of a weird thought the other day. I'd switched my blog to Wordpress a little while back. The site had been running Drupal, and since we switched from Drupal to Wordpress at work, it's a great opportunity to mess around with the same platform and do some learning as I went. The problem is, is that I'm …