This is just a space for me to share some notes and thoughts. I hope someone finds something useful here. Zola 2025-10-26T00:00:00+00:00 https://suchaboris.com/tags/automation/atom.xml 2025-10-26T00:00:00+00:00 2025-10-26T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://suchaboris.com/blog/the-joy-of-scope-creep-in-a-homelab/ <p>Last week was a classic case of <strong>scope creep</strong> (for a personal project): I started one task and it instantly spawned five more. On one hand, it's a good learning process; on the other, it feels less productive because my To-Do list got bigger, not smaller.</p> <p>All I wanted was to set up some <strong>security scanner</strong> for my <strong>homelab K8s cluster</strong>. After researching different tools, I spun one up and got a summary report, which was great. Time to start fixing vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, right?</p> <p>Well, I thought I needed to set up alerting first so I know the number does not go up. But for that, I need to set up <strong>secret management</strong> so alerts can be sent via email. And each part requires quite a bit of reading, research, and evaluation of which solution will work best for my case.</p> <p>And so, by the end of the week, my To-Do list for the homelab is twice as big as it was when the week started. And I love it. I am learning so much with this project.</p> 2025-09-21T00:00:00+00:00 2025-09-21T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://suchaboris.com/blog/my-os-bootstrap-scripts/ <p>For many years, I've had scripts I'd run on a new <strong>MacBook</strong> to bring it up to the state I need with all the apps and settings I want. But for some reason, only recently I realized I need this for all of the operating systems I use.</p> <p>Playing with VMs lately made it even more useful as I switch between <strong>Mac</strong>, <strong>Windows</strong>, and <strong>Linux</strong>. With Mac and Linux, everything was pretty easy. It's with Windows is where I really appreciated <strong>AI</strong>, as I don't have the time or patience to dive into <strong>PowerShell</strong>.</p> <p>And now I have a <a rel="external" href="https://github.com/prymost/os_bootstrap">repository</a> I can easily pull and set up a brand new OS with everything I need and the way I like it. These are quite personalized, but if anyone wants to, you can definitely use it as inspiration.</p>