Summary
- Lteitaly: find mobile providers antennas around italy on a map
- Homelab situation
- HortusFox: self-hosted plant tracking & management
- Video: 5 styles of parenting
Lte Italy
lteitaly.it is a website which allows you to spot mobile carriers** antennas spread all around Italy, by navigating a simple map.
** To see all providers on the map (instead of one by one) you need to register.
Homelab situation
It’s been a couple of months now since I started working on my tiny homelab. I started with a Raspberry Pi (the first Model A IIRC) which hosted a Pi-Hole and a couple more minor services.
Then I heard about home media servers, which could be used to stream your own media anywhere at home (and outside eventually), and so I resurrected a couple of old machines I had in the closet: two Dell OptiPlex 790 with an Intel i5-2500S and 4GB of RAM (upgraded to 16GB later on). I used them to run Jellyfin, which quickly turned into the whole *arr stack. Everything was running on an internal SSD plus a couple of spare USB drives I had lying around.
Once you start tinkering with homelab stuff, it’s so easy to descend in a never-ending spiral. Although happy about my current monster setup, I was reading more and more about RAID, redundancy, High Availability, backups, and so on. At some point I discovered two new toys: OpenMediaVault and TrueNas. I started playing around using one of my Optiplex machines and reached a point where I wanted a “proper” machine with PCIe and SATA slots. I might write a dedicated article about the whole story one day, but in the end I found an old ThinkServer on the second-hand market and pulled the trigger. Below you can see my current setup.
HortusFox
While reading hackerNews I stumbled upon this plant tracking & management application: HortusFox, made by Daniel Brendel. It’s open-source, can be self-hosted and UI is pretty cool. My wife manages our balcony with a few plants. We might try this app and host it in my homelab.
5 styles of parenting
A video about parenting that I was suggested by so many friends. The video is made by Sprouts and explores five different parenting styles and how they impact a child’s development and adult life. These are:
- Authoritarian
- Permissive
- Authoritative
- Neglectful
- Over-involved
It’s an interesting video, although I think the Authoritative style is the one with the best compromise between control and warmth, even though it seems to be put at the same level as the others. I can’t really see the cons of that one. But I might be biased.
I loved the quote from Maria Montessori at the end of the video: “Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed”.