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The most annoying thing about homelabbing is the upkeep.

I got my hands on a 2025 Huawei Matepad pro 12.2, with a gorgeous display.

I have a homelab, but accessing it from outside my home network was always a pain.

My Homelab often has peering issues when connecting from another ISP.

My team uses Jenkins for CI/CD, and we want to migrate away from it due to its insanely complex and hard to understand scripts.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been vibecoding a new app with GitHub Copilot.

I self-host my own private cloud, but sometimes I have to make files available on external clouds like Mega.

If you have been getting MISSING_MATRIX_RTC_FOCUS on Element X recently when starting calls, the reason is that Element has stopped their free relay for Matrix RTC, AKA Element Call.

Self-hosted grammar autocorrect with LanguageTool and Docker Compose.

Having a scanner is the first step of going paperless, however with time you realize that keeping stuff in order and finding documents quickly becomes a challenge, even when using full text search in the cloud.

I have been looking for a solution to sync my contacts across devices.

Flatpak is the most popular universal distribution format on Linux, but I still face issues with dark mode detection in some apps.

Zed is a new open source code editor on the block, which has a top-notch Ai integration, aiming to compete with Cursor.

Brave recently introduced the ability to bring your own model to use with LEO using other third party providers or a local model using Ollama!

ownCloud infinite scale is a complete rewrite of the classic ownCloud/Nextcloud server in go, it’s much faster and much more efficient, to the point it doesn’t even need a database!

If you want to make your home server accessible on the Internet but can’t use port forwarding (if you are behind CGNAT for example) or just aren’t comfortable having your home IP public, there are a few ways to do it.

If you need to do an HTTP redirect for anything while using Cloudflare the first idea that comes to mind will be just to use Redirect Rules, however, if your goal is to redirect a path, like /old/* to /new/*, you actually can’t do that in the free plan, as

If you want to deploy your project to a server without exposing it or manually managing ssh keys, you can use Tailscale SSH!

If you use WordPress in docker, sometimes you may have some plugins complaining about missing libraries / packages, like for example EWWW image optimizer, that was complaining about missing image libraries.

When you run a server that relies on containers for almost everything, keeping the system up to date has almost zero chance of breaking anything.

Sometimes you need to automate some things in Docker containers, run a script or check a result online, and I honestly dread dealing with cron to do it.

Using the Purge Remote Media API, we can send a POST request to delete all cached remote media before a certain time: Your account must be a server admin for this command to work. 1 curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADMIN_ACCESS_TOKEN" "https://mat…

If you’re wondering why there are a lot of connections coming from your docker gateway right after you enabled IPv6 for your services, you’ve come to the right place.

I use proxies very often as a way to do split tunneling on Linux, as easy split-tunneling with WireGuard or OpenVPN isn’t there yet.

Here is a how you can send a simple matrix message with CURL: curl 'https://matrix.org/_matrix/client/r0/rooms/!

Setting up Nextcloud full-text search isn’t very clear, especially with Docker, so in this post I’ll explain how to set up full-text search with Elasticsearch and Tesseract using Nextcloud’s official Docker images. add new tesseract to your Nextcloud cont…

So while I was updating my website, I was thinking about using JSdelivr for my blogs images, the slowest part of my website since it’s hosted on a VPS and not on Cloudflare Pages to avoid further internet centralization.

In the official discourse S3-compatible object storage setup guide, it mentions that Cloudflare R2 is not supported, because it doesn’t handle gzipped files correctly.

So you have heard about how good GitOps is, and how much better it is than having to manage your containers by hand.

(This only affects MESA, so only people using open source drivers) Shortly before Fedora 37 release, Fedora dropped support for closed Codecs like H264, HEVC, VC1, this also includes other Red Hat distros like RHEL and CentOS stream, and probably clones l…

I am going to show you how to quickly set up a discoverable SMB share, it’s much easier than you think!

I wanted to set up Cloudflared, but I couldn’t find anything about setting it up in docker, especially without the Zero Trust dashboard (because it kept refusing my credit card for some reason).

If you are seeing the “Serve static assets with an efficient cache policy” notice in PageSpeed, you need to add the Cache-Control header to your website.

If you deploy your static site to a Web server like Caddy, you might need to pre-compress it, especially if you want to use Brotli with Caddy as it’s only supported for pre-compressed assets.

If you use a distro with Wayland, you might have noticed, that screen sharing might not work, it will probably show a black screen, instead of your display Why This is because Wayland doesn’t give the permission for a program to capture the screen the same