Short one today. I learned that Meilisearch has added experimental support for dumpless upgrades. So far it works well, though to be fair none of my Meilisearch databases are particularly important. I have one for better searches in Jellyfin and another for my Karakeep search index. Losing either of them would be a minor inconvenience, whereas it’s been a massive inconvenience for me to have to dump and manually import every single time I patch Meilisearch. ...
Getting started with Docker So, you wanna use docker-compose… Introduction Welcome! If you’re looking at this post, I assume that you’re new to Docker and you want to learn to get up and running quickly. There are several areas of Docker that confuse new users, and I will do my best to address most of the most common pitfalls in this post. docker run vs docker compose Don’t use docker run. If the thing you want to run in Docker only gives you the docker run syntax, you take that thing over to Composerize and you convert it. ...
Note2025/05/24 - edited to fix some mistakes I caught later in my docker compose. Continuing on the theme of moving all of my stuff out of other people’s cloud and into mine - I was recently made aware of Dawarich while listening to the Linux Unplugged podcast. This is touted as an alternative to Google’s Location History feature, which is something that I use frequently. I need it to account for my time at work, so it’s fairly important that I have a solution like this. ...