Migrating to Pure Blog
It's been five years now since I wrote my first blog post. Crazy how time flies, isn't it? I remember that I was new on Fosstodon and everyone seemed to have a blog so I started developing acute FOMO/...
Tag: software
Moving to Infrastructure as Code — A Work in Progress
As alluded to before, the number of servers I manage recently outgrew my ability or rather willingness to maintain all of them manually so, naturally, the desire to introduce automation arose. I've wo...
Server Infra Update
I have been self-hosting for a while but mostly I have used one machine to put everything on. This makes maintenance straightforward as there's not a lot to do to install updates and the like. Recentl...
The latest in VPN land
In a previous blog post I wrote about my current VPN setup and whether it might not be time to switch. I considered several options and tried almost all of them to get a feel for them. wg-easy This pr...
State of my Homelab in August 2025
It's been a while since I've last written about the stuff I self-host. Once upon a time I was simple-minded enough to believe that I would get some hardware, install some software that seems useful to...
How To: Rip BluRay discs on Linux
Disclaimer: Ripping BluRays with Handbrake is discouraged by its developers. They recommend using MakeMKV instead which is more robust in this respect since it's built for the task. By now I've adopte...
How To: Create a Digital Frame with MagicMirror
I've wanted a digital frame at home for a while now. I'm notoriously bad at organizing pictures, even worse at sorting, printing, arranging or displaying them. So when I found out that digital frames...
Self-Hosting or How I learned to stop worrying and love the Cloud
For a few years now, I've hosted a small server at home. Nothing too exciting, I'd say. It all started with a Nextclound instance (see here) and sort of evolved from there. After a while I discovered...
How To: Run Several Services Behind a Reverse Proxy
This is a follow-up article for my previous one which describes how I migrated my personal Nextcloud to a docker setup. It's part me telling a story of what I learned and part "How To" so someone can...
How To: Set up NextcloudPi with Docker
I've been successfully running a Nextcloud instance for a while now and it's quite useful. When I did the setup the first time I installed the entire stack on bare metal by hand. Raspberry Pi with Ras...