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Introduction For many years, I used Reeder Classic to read my RSS feeds.

I wanted to monitor the traffic of my home network directly inside my Grafana dashboards, but there was one annoying limitation: the standard OpenWrt Prometheus exporter can expose interfaces, NAT traffic and system metrics, but they don’t give me a simple

Questo post è l’evoluzione del precedente post Feed RSS dei podcast Rai con la modifica che gli URLs vengono risolti fino alla CDN Rai, evitando il problema di alcuni client podcast (come Pocket Casts) che non facevano partire automaticamente l’episodio,…

Just a quick tip.

This post explains how I operate my homelab with no public WAN exposure, using WireGuard to stay permanently connected to my home network from all my devices, while only routing selected subnets instead of all traffic.

Here’s another of my n8n useful workflows.

I built this simply n8n workflow mainly for myself, it lets me automatically cross-post my (or any other user) new posts from Hacker News to my (or any other) Mastodon instance (using the title from Hacker News + the URL).

This isn’t a significant update, but given its technical aspects, I’ve created a post that might be useful to someone.

This was a tough decision, having used Gmail since 2007/2008.

In this post I won’t go into extensive technical steps, it would become too long and complex.

tl;dr I migrated from a Raspberry Pi 5 to a mini PC powered by an AMD Ryzen 6600H with PCIe 4.0 x4 — running my full monitoring stack: Grafana, Prometheus, Mimir, Promtail, and Loki.

I decided to write this post because something that seemed simple and easy, turned into a deep rabbit hole of UPS units, USB updates, serial cables, network cards, and other mess… Introduction It all starts when I decided to change the UPS that keeps the…

ChatGPT lied on purpose for its own convenience.

I got a new little toy: a miniPC for €189 that serves as a kiosk, instead of the Raspberry PI 4B, which had become a bit too slow for large Grafana dashboards (especially for scrolling on the touch display).

Over the past few days, especially after the macOS 15.4 update, I encountered a frustrating power management issue with the Mac mini and Apple Studio Display.

Finally, after many months of wanting to do it, I made it: I moved my Umami instance from a VPS with Docker on DigitalOcean to a pod on PikaPods.

⚠️ questo post è vecchio, ho creato la nuova versione 2.0 con diversi miglioramenti: Feed RSS dei podcast Rai v2 | etcetera Questo post lo scrivo in italiano poiché riguarda specificamente la lingua italiana, in quanto parla di podcast in italiano.

Problem to solve: Turn on and off remotely a Raspberry Pi 4B with an external HDMI display that acts as a kiosk to show Grafana dashboards in full screen using Firefox.

After receiving multiple notification emails from Google about my Google Photos storage running out—and getting tired of paying while handing over all my data—I finally decided to take matters into my own hands and manage my photos locally, right on my ho…

The Pi-Hole team has released a major update: Pi-hole v6.

The other day, I found the credentials for an old Bitcoin wallet on blockchain.com, so I installed their app and tried to log in.

Intro Here’s a quick update on the PiArtFrame.

I have to admit, it hasn’t been long since my last post about my “home setup,” but during the summer I have more free time and I took the opportunity to make a few small improvements.

I can’t deny that I love Reddit and that it has now become the only social media I’m using.

Maybe you haven’t noticed it, but this blog is a bit different now, this because the ‘engine’ behind it, now it’s Hugo instead of Jekyll.

I’m encountering a somewhat controversial dilemma…in a few words: I can either write about what I’ve done, or I can do something.

A few days ago, I watched the latest WWDC event from Apple, and I was overall positively impressed, especially with the “Apple Intelligence” segment.

Introduction Icons/UI Scripts Tips Introduction I absolutely love Raycast because, with it, I’m able to use a single software that can handle a wide range of tasks and significantly improving my productivity.

Hardware building it Update Software installation Conclusions Gallery I’ve update the frame with a Raspberry PI Zero 2 W, and with a better “managment” of the Raspberry PI behind the frame.

I’m back with another update to my home network setup, but this time it’s a smaller change that’s more focused on the overall tech aspect and daily usage, rather than just the network.

Problem Every time I perform a search in Duck Duck Go I get tons of spamming results from the terrible, I would say bloatware, website www.msn.com, that for some reasons has a better ranking in Duck Duck Go than the original news sources.

tl;dr The full story What I’m doing my monitoring system screenshots Conclusion This maybe seems to be a weird post, especially for those who don’t live in Italy, because here in Italy there’s the common belief that the abilites of a worker, usually are l…

This is a new update of the PADD script by yubiuser.

A new update of my network home setup, to both hardware and software.

Edit: I updated the widget with other (more useful to me) informations, jump at the bottom: Updated v2 If there’s one thing that I don’t like to use, are the stats apps in the menubar.

As you may know, this blog is running on my VPS on DigitalOcean using Jekyll to generate the site, and in order to make a new post, it’s not that easy because I have to write a Markdown file, upload to the posts folder via FTP and update Jekyll via SSH.

yubiuser has released a new updated for PADD, to 3.10.0, and this update I think is quite important because it fixes the “flickering refresh” that was introduced with the v3.9.0.

Requirements Installation Grafana image render Automating the report Tips Bonus: build PDF reports Conclusion This project consists in a way to receive the stats of my Grafana dashboards (home network, Netatmo Weather Station/Thermostat, home consumption/…

yubiuser has released a new updated for PADD, to 3.9.0, so I updated also my modified version with more info that fits 800x480px display.

Introduction The final results Building the notification system Pushover with HomeKit Conclusion My dashboards In this post I want to describe how Pushover and Grafana are helping me to get some important push notifications of my life, health, home and ne…

The nanoPi R4S is a great router with a very efficient metal enclosure to keep it cooled, but it has one defect: it’s flat on the base.

Introduction In the last days I listened an interesting podcast episode of Click Here, the episode was about the Iran protests, and one of the first phrases was Almost everyone (in Iran) learn how to use a VPN or Proxy […] even my grandmother (78) asked h…

After I bought and reviewed the beautiful Grid iPhone 3G, the founder of Grid (with my surprise) contacted me to thank me for the honest review, and he also said that he wanted to gift me another product from Grid: the Grid A7 (APL5698).

yubiuser has released a new updated for PADD, to 3.8.1, so I updated also my modified version with more info that fits 800x480px display.

One thing that Steve Jobs used to say was: “Write web apps”, but unfortunately things went a bit so far and big companies are building a web apps view with lots of pointeless (or even dangerous) features that are a waste of space, privacy, battery and int…

Since I’m a very “optimizer and minimalist user” I check for the waste of space in my tiny SSD.

This is a bit different post, but it’s always focused on tech, that is equal to “living” nowadays.

The previous releases/posts to read, are: My hardware and software setup for a new house My network home setup - v2.0 Changelog for this v3.0 from: Internet -> modem -> wireless router -> home clients to: Internet -> modem -> router -> access point - mana…

As usual, PADD as been update to the release v3.8.0, and I also updated my custom mod of it for the Pimoroni HyperPixel 4" display and other display with more pixel (800x480) than the original PADD script with the latest updated: Remember that this version

Some months ago I wrote about how this blog is “Google free” since I’m using the open source umami analytics service instead of Google Analytics.