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Marc is a Software Engineer with over 20 years of experience developing full stack applications and distributed systems. Fueled by plants with a passion to improve our world and environment through technology.

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I mostly write about tech I find interesting, or want to log my discoveries for my future self and others.

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Install ComfyUI on Ubuntu 24.04

This guide walks through setting up ComfyUI on a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 system, including automatic startup using systemd. Perfect for render nodes or headless workstations.

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Decrypting LUKS Ubuntu LVM via SSH on boot

If you're running a headless Linux server with a LUKS-encrypted root disk, you probably know the pain of needing a keyboard, KVM, or physical presence to unlock it at boot. No thanks. Here's a simple way to integrate Dropbear SSH into your initramfs, so you can securely ...

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Expand lvm filesystem size on Ubuntu

I recently setup a cluster of Raspberry PIs and Intel NUCs as a shared Kubernetes cluster for my homelab. Each device has a primary NVMe drive with 500GB of storage and the NUCs have a secondary 2TB SATA SSD. Everything went smoothly so I configured Longhorn as a way to share ...

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Vite + React Quickstart

I've been setting up a lot of quick experiments and prototypes lately to prove concepts. For these kind of apps I don't need a full stack like NextJS, but I also want to be able to use React + TypeScript for various reasons such as component testing or debugging. The aim is ...

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Using nginx as a node package proxy cache

It's possible to dramatically improve yarn v1 performance locally by caching registry content in a local nginx proxy. I'm part of teams maintaining a lot of legacy yarn projects and it can be painful when running commands like yarn outdated or yarn install after changes are ...

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