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Grimoire - Open Source Rule Book Storage

Following on from my last post about preparing for a table top rpg session, I figured I'd write about a recently released open source tool. One that I have been running on my homelab for a couple of months now. It's called Grimoire and it acts as a one stop shop for storing and managing your various digital TTRPG assets - from pdf rule books and sound files to the most recent addition, 3D printable STL files. I'm going to be up front about this, I really like this tool. So much so that I person

CORS & Traefik in TrueNas Scale with TrueCharts

I've been building a homelab in my free time over recent months (alongside improving my smart home and building the next iteration of this blog). This Homelab runs TrueNas Scale and, as is recommended by anyone who uses TrueNas Scale, I use the TrueCharts Catalogue for apps as they are more flexible and updated more frequently. When working with TrueCharts, you likely want a reverse proxy to add SSL to any applications you have that might need to be web accessible. To do this TrueCharts official

Web Mentions

One of my favourite features of hosted blogging platforms, such as Medium, is the simple feedback systems they have in place. Medium posts display a number of claps and comments. Each user can give a post up-to 20 claps based on how much they like a post. This means that, at a glance, you have information that can tell you how valuable the content of a post is considered. Sites like Reddit and Hacker News use an upvote/downvote system for a similar purpose and most social media sites have some f