Evaggelos Balaskas - System Engineer

Disclaimer, this blog post is a proof of concept and not a security proposal.

In my previous post I used Authelia in front of a self-hosted service to handle authentication before users are allowed.

I like running a few services either on my private homelab or on various cloud VPS.

I am in the process of migrating my self-hosted email server to a new virtual private server.

coding agents are useful, but they forget.

Containers is an package application with all the files, libraries, and runtime it needs.

I spent some time trying to connect a Yeelight Wireless Smart Dimmer to Home Assistant.

I want a simple way to experiment with LLMs from my (very old) archlinux machine that has no GPU.

I use multiple computers and multiple mobile devices.

I was looking at my logs and analytics, and I saw something interesting.

Run OpenCode, an AI coding agent on your own machine — no cloud, no API, no data ever leaving your computer privacy first and no costs!

I can use apprise in Home Assistant and in my scripts and got signal, slack, email and many more working perfectly!

LiteLLM AI Gateway (LLM Proxy) This project shows a simple pattern: run multiple local model servers, place LiteLLM in front of them, and expose one OpenAI-compatible endpoint for apps to use.

If you want to use Claude Code together with Osaurus, there are two different pieces to understand: Model backend — the LLM that answers your prompts MCP tools — the tools Claude Code can call This is the most important idea: Osaurus MCP gives Claude Code…

Brave’s built-in privacy-first AI assistant, Leo, supports connecting to a local OpenAI-compatible server.

Want to run modern LLMs locally — with an OpenAI-compatible API, multimodal support, and strong performance on Apple Silicon?

If you’re running a home lab and tired of manually provisioning VMs, I’ve got something for you.

Introduction If you work with Docker long enough, you stop having one Docker environment.

Prologue – Why do this at all?

🎉 If you want a self‑contained, production‑ready reverse proxy that automatically provisions TLS certificates from Let’s Encrypt and uses LuaDNS as the DNS provider, you’re in the right place.