USB Drive SMART Updates: Fast-Track to the GRUB Solution
New Seagate USB drives arrived for the Ceph cluster and predictably won't report SMART data. After months of production use, GRUB boot parameters are the only method that reliably survives kernel updates and cluster reboots.
Advanced Jekyll SEO Health Checks: Comprehensive Automation and Monitoring
Building a comprehensive SEO health check system for Jekyll sites with GitHub Actions, Lighthouse CI, and automated link validation - Part 2 of the Jekyll SEO series.
Jekyll Website Optimization for GitHub Pages - Part 2
Advanced analytics, Core Web Vitals tracking, and the lessons learned from running a 100+ post technical blog — plus the remaining optimization roadmap.
Essential CLI Tools for Linux System Management
The CLI tools I actually reach for when Linux systems misbehave: htop, iotop, ncdu, iftop, mtr, and a handful of specialists for hardware and performance diagnosis.
Enabling SMART Monitoring on Seagate USB Drives
Seagate USB drives hide SMART data behind UAS quirks. Disabling UAS via GRUB boot parameters unlocks full health monitoring without sacrificing stability.
Dell Wyse 3040 eMMC Storage Health Monitoring
eMMC storage doesn't support SMART, but the JEDEC health reporting built into mmc-utils gives you life time estimation and pre-EOL status for Dell Wyse 3040 boot drives.
Managing Ceph Nearfull Warnings in Proxmox Homelab
Ceph's nearfull warnings are capacity planning signals, not emergencies — if you understand the thresholds and respond before the cluster goes read-only.
Adding Ceph Dashboard to Your Proxmox Cluster
The Ceph Dashboard is essential for monitoring cluster health without SSH, but setting it up on Proxmox isn't straightforward. Here's how to get it working with SSL and proper authentication.