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For my resound app I wanted a really nice release process (it is after all part of my job!). Resound is a cli go app built with Cobra and Viper, it takes the last RSS item and posts it to Mastodon, pretty simple. You can checkout the latest version here. I’m using goreleaser to build multiple architectures and then push them to my ForgeJo instance here’s how I did it because there are a lot of moving parts you have to put together in order to get it working.

I took some time last night to finally tune my renovate setup. There were a few issues with it - none of it renovates or my tech stacks fault, just stuff I wasn’t too happy with and things that could be improved.

I turned 40 in April, most people would be happy but not me. It marks a milestone in general shittery, a point in time where I’m forced to reflect on a decade of midlife crisis.

It’s been a few months since my last update as per usual! I try not to blog for the sake of it so I wait until I have a few things of value to update on.

After using the Kobo Clara Colour for a few days here are my initial impressions. I’ve come from a fairly old Kindle so this has been really interesting. This isn’t a proper review just my thoughts on the new device and how I use it.

When I was a kid me and my brother read a lot, we devoured books so much so my mum had to keep taking us to the library to get more. Eventually when we got a bit older we started buying our own books and both our rooms became full of Terry Pratchett, JRR Tolkein and other amazing authors. I love reading it transports me to a better place.

A list of my default hardware and software for 2025, taken from here and expanded on. Hope you enjoy! 📨 Mail Service: Gmail Fastmail 📮 Mail Client: Gmail Fastmail 📝 Notes: Joplin ✅ To-Do: Google Calendar & Vikunja 📆 Calendar: Google Calendar Fastmail, Etar 🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Google Contacts Fastmail 📖 RSS Service: Hugo 🗞️ RSS Client: FreshRSS ⌨️ Launcher: None ☁️ Cloud storage: Gdrive & Synology Nas 🌅 Photo library: Google Photos & Immich 🌐 Web Browser: Firefox & Librefox Firefox 💬 Chat: WhatsApp & Signal 🔖 Bookmarks: None 📑 Read Later: Wallabag 📚 Reading: Kindle Paperwhite 📜 Word Processing: Google Docs & Libreoffice 📈 Spreadsheets: Google Docs & Libreoffice 📊 Presentations: Google Docs & Libreoffice 🛒 Shopping Lists: Mealie 💰 Personal Finance: None 🎵 Music: Navidrome/symfonium/feishin 🎤 Podcasts: AntennaPod 🔐 Password Management: 1Password 🤦‍♂️ Social Media: Mastodon 🌤️ Weather: Weather&Radar 🔎 Search: Google & DuckDuckGo 🧮 Code Editor: VSCode & nvim & VSCodium 🖥️ Distros: Win 11, OSX, Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, CachyOS (I use Arch btw) 📱Phone: Google Pixel 7 Pro 💻 Laptop: Lenovo X1 Carbon 5th Gen MacBook Air 📜 Document Management: Paperless ngx 💾 Remote servers: 1 💾 Home servers: 3 3.5 📱Tablet: Samsung Galaxy Tab 9

Happy new year homelabbers! I’m cheating a bit and rolling some of the work I got done in December 2025 into this update. I want to say my homelab is pretty boring now it just works which is awesome, only minor tinkering is required these days so I’ve decided to focus on observability for a bit. Knowing when and what things have gone wrong was sorely missing so I’ve finally gotten round to sorting a lot of that out which I’ll detail in a section below.

Spurred on by this great article from Jessica Journals I’ve decided to document how I handle my music collection in 2025/26. I’ve split the post up into what seem like logical sections.

I think this is the first time I’ve done this although I’m not really sure, for reasons I didn’t do it last year. So this will be an attempt to summarise 2025 into something that makes sense.