JJ Macalinao

I didn't build a mini-rack... I built two (because envy)

14 days ago 6 min read Homelab Networking Pi

Around a year ago, I decided to replace my gaming PC with a mini-rack here in my home office. It was almost-final, but issues and other homelabbers made me start from scratch.

Building an 8-node Pi cluster (during a chip shortage), part one

3 years ago 7 min read Pi Kubernetes k3s

Have you ever wondered how easy (or difficult) it is to create and set up a cluster of single-board computers? Probably not, but despite all of that, I wanted to try it out myself, so here we are.

The solution to the ARG on Brew's 100th video

3 years ago 4 min read ARG Brew On The Hill Quiz YouTube

Brew recently posted a video about ARGs, and it was very interesting. And obviously, Brew had to make his own on this video. I got curious once I saw a QR code from the back of Bean’s notebook.

How I've set up my highly-available Kubernetes cluster

4 years ago 5 min read k3s k3sup Kubernetes Longhorn Rancher

Recently, I started looking into getting a Kubernetes cluster set up to learn how it, and the whole “orchestration” concept, works. I’ll lay out the steps I’ve done to go from nothing to a working Kubernetes cluster.

Hello world!

4 years ago 1 min read

Yes, I know this website has absolutely nothing on it. It’s only yesterday that I even bothered to install WordPress and put this up, so hold your horses. 😂