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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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Wiping Hard Drives on Ubuntu

I'm regularly buying new hard drive/swapping them between machines in my homelab. I run the same bunch of commands over and over so I figured I'd drop them here for easy access. This will delete all data on the entire disk so use with caution!

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Mounting SMB/CIFS share on Ubuntu

Quick start guide to mounting SMB/CIFS shares manually and on system boot. This guide is designed for Ubuntu 24.04 but it will almost certainly work with any flavour of modern linux.

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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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