Where can I find more than single-images, other than imgur?

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/63195245

Or equivalent sport team

One of the requirements of my job is to learn to use the agentic coding tools (Claude, and GitHub Copilot, specifically), and over the last three weeks, I feel like I've made huge strides in my understanding of the tools, their limitations, and where there's some cool stuff that can be done.

This weekend, I've been working on some personal projects and having a good time with my "unlimited" benefit that my work is providing me, and has expressly said "go use for your personal projects, too." One of the things that has come out of this weekend is that I'm finding some lessons that will be useful in my work day, which of course, is why they want people to take the stuff home with them.

First up is that I spent Saturday playing with Claude on a personal API-based subscription, and I installed a bunch of plugins using the built-in marketplaces. There are a lot of choices, and I selected what looked like a good set of picks for building a static website hosted in Azure. Claude has a much better marketplace/plugin/mcp navigation UX than Copilot. What I didn't realize, though, was all the design and planning I was doing (slowly reading each command, and output) ended up just being "theory crafting" using some of the skills. It didn't actually output any code into files. Oops! It did help me develop a solid plan, figure out some testing strategies, etc.

The second thing I have been learning/digging deep into, is the difference between "user" and "project" instructions and configurations. I think there is a general set of plugins/skills/agents/mcp servers that I want to use for a specific project, but what I've been doing at work is implementing them all in the user context, and this has been making my environment really unwieldy. I don't really need 14+ browser prompts to log into every MCP server every time I launch Copilot. I think what I'm going to do is similar to this mornings exercise, where I installed the "awesome-copilot" plugin from the "awesome-copilot" marketplace that's built in to Copilot. This provided a set of skills to help parse the marketplace and find skills relevant to the project I am working on. This was exceptionally helpful when I cloned my project and said, "based on these project plans, let's get a list of helpful skills, agents, plugins, and MCP servers." This was fantastic at helping me navigate and parse the awesome-copilot repo (not the least because the navigation of the plugins leaves a lot to be desired).

Lastly, I can't stress enough the need to iteratively re-evaluate any plans, designs, and architecture multiple times, with different agents, and refining the skills and agents that are being used as part of the review. Each cycle, I was able to develop closer to the kinds of standards I use in my work-day development, without having to export the tribal knowledge into some kind of KB. At the end of the current build process, I'm going to out put the development environment into a package that I can share with coworkers, who can use this as a starting point for their own exploration and journey.

How are folks syncing local DNS records across multiple Piholes?

I've been rebuilding all my content hosted on a Synology NAS + Proxmox installed on a NUC, and moving it to a dedicated box with beefy/brutal stats. I was messing around with Proxmox and unprivileged LXC containers for a while, using a ZFS pool on the host, and passing though using mount points while mapping the users in the container to groups on the host. It was going pretty well except I had (what I thought) was insanely odd and inconsistent behavior. In summary, in the same LXC, I could pass through two mount points with the same users and permissions (etc.) and one would show up mapped correctly, and the other wouldn't.

I gave up on that approach after a few unhelpful responses of "you're doing it wrong." That may be the case, but I was more focused on why the issue was inconsistent rather than just failing.

I'm now running an Unraid VM, with my HBA (and USB stick) passed through, lots of RAM, and an 8-pack of processors. I thought Unraid was pretty slick when I ran the trial a while ago, and was kind of unimpressed with it's performance in this configuration. After getting all the drives configured correctly (made the mistake of mixing up "array" and "pool" after my initial foray into zfs), and weeding out three bad drives from ServerPartDeals, I had a stable array, all my LXC containers configured on Proxmox, NFS going over a dedicated, local bridge (10.10 for the WIN!), and my data moved over from the old NAS, I was pretty happy.

During the whole process, I had been watching/monitoring lots of odd behavior on Proxmox, with Unraid, and with my data transfers. My Pihole instance was going crazy with load averages, even though it was reserved for the LXCs on the host, rather than for the whole house, and the IO pressure stall was over 90% constantly. Given that I had several bad disks out of what I ordered from the supplier, I thought I was dealing with some crazy stuff. I was taking down the LXCs and VM one-by-one, trying to find where that stall pressure was coming from.

As I was troubleshooting, I was wondering if it was maybe IO pressure on the host OS disks (NVMe drives directly attached to the motherboard, zfs mirrored), and did a quick "zpool list." Hmm. That's funny. Why is my old destroyed (or so I thought) pool still showing up??? When I first switched to Unraid, I exported my pool (doom-pool) and then imported it in Unraid after I passed through the HBA. After deciding that ZFS was nice, but not necessary, I destroyed the pool in Unraid, and reconfigured for a standard xfs array. It looked like, somehow, the export of the pool, import, and destroy did something strange, and the drives were showing up as online and in use on the host still. I tried to kill the pool again on the host, and everything would sit and spin.

I ended up shutting down the host and needing to cut power (zfs services were hung for about 12 minutes before I decided it was ok), and when I rebooted, the old pool was gone from the host, and (holy moly) everything was working better. The IO pressure was gone. The CPU spikes and lags were gone. Pihole wasn't going nuts any more.

The one thing I haven't tried yet is to do some disk-to-disk copies on Unraid. This was one of those places where I saw aberrant behavior, and transfer limited to 120MB/s (I have 14TB SAS 12Gb drives in my array), but I don't have any heavy files I need to move. Right now I'm just happy that it wasn't more bogus hardware, or a problem with my HBA or motherboard or something. Anywho, just wanted to share.

I thought it might be easier to ask than try to search and see spoilers: I have (and have read) the four published collections, and I want to catch up with what's happened since then. Can anyone share where I should start on the website to get back into the flow?

I’m planning on clearing some space in my yard for a Rainier cherry tree, and I’m curious if anyone has some tips. I’ve read a couple of guides for selecting good spots, soil amendments, and placement near other cherry trees. Is there anything that caught you by surprise?

Heading in to our first game of the season. Has anyone noticed anything different enough this year that it caused you to do a double-take? Any tips on new places or things to do?

While I’m not expecting a 10 goal blow-out, I would like to see us break up the winning streak the Stars have going. At this point in the season, I just want to see good, fun hockey.

Would be nice if this and the Kraken communities had some auto-posting game day threads.

Over the past couple of weeks, I've seen a lot of content that's ripping on Arch Linux, from pictures of stickers being removed from laptops, to comments about it having a lot of bloat or frustrating package management. Was there a change to their policies, strategies, or distro that has turned this once proud vessel into a floating psycho ward?

I’m hoping I can post here to see if I can connect with the community somewhere other than Reddit or Facebook