Use Immich to reclaim storage for Google
Google has a pretty generous free plan for storage. However, backups with photos and videos can easily get you to the limit. Thus, an option is to host your own…
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Setup TrueNAS in your network
In the age of privacy, owning your own NAS is something you might be interested in. Apart from privacy, another possible benefit is reducing your cloud provider bills and maybe…
Free email and website hosting for your custom domain
Many companies offer free plans, so together with AI agents it’s pretty accessible to build your own website these days.
Convert an old laptop into a LLM machine
With the same laptop used for the Proxmox experiment, we will directly install the latest Ubuntu version to convert the machine in a full LLM server.
Configure a security first home network
In the context of a more and more automated and digitalized world, the network defaults might not just be enough. With some pretty basic ideas, we could harden the security…
Getting started with Proxmox
Virtualization is at the heart of many things today, especially in development. Proxmox is a Debian based OS which is exactly aimed at VMs and container, tried and tested over…
Improved prompts for better AI interactions
I recently worked on a project where I used prompts to generate most of the code. I had to make some fixes, as expected, but the question arose: might more…
Accelerated AI development – Open File Sharing
In the following article we will attempt to build an open source file sharing app which is password protected and can be used by multiple users. This is a fairly…
Local services for convenience and privacy
In the era of everything as a service which is happening at the same time with an active hunt for personal information, hosting yourself some of the services you need…
Put a Raspberry Pi in an Argon Neo 5 Case
We previously tackled the topic of setting up a Raspberry Pi home server and that implementation is still up and running. It was pretty basic, so now it’s time for…
Host old apps in containers with Debian 12
I have recently had to start some software based on a very old PHP version. Since having that directly on the operating system will open it to vulnerabilities, containerization seems…
Introduction in accessibility (a11y)
Accessibility is something we should permanently have in the back of our minds whenever we develop something in the frontend of our application.