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self-hostinghome assistantsbc

Updated  February 10, 2025   4 min read

Home Assistant is an open source home automation solution that gives you local control over your smart home. It can also be run on Libre Computer's boards, but I ran into some issues following the official instructions from Libre, so here's how I got it working.

self-hostingcloudflare

Updated  February 10, 2025   11 min read

Self-hosting a static web blog has never been easier thanks to Cloudflare Tunnel. In this guide I explain how to expose a static website self-hosted on a Linux server inside my home network to the internet using Nginx and Cloudflare Tunnel, and securing it with various other free Cloudflare services.

networkingdebian

Updated  February 4, 2025   3 min read

Debian's non-graphical install does not give you the option to set a static IP, here's a quick guide to doing it manually on the command line.

tailscalepi-hole

Updated  February 3, 2025   6 min read

Tailscale is my new homelab toy. I've been using it to access my media on the go, to connect to a VPS for sharing my Plex library with family, and now for on-the-go adblocking on my phone, tablet and laptop -- here's how.

self-hostingopenmediavault

Updated  February 3, 2025   4 min read

I've been using OpenMediaVault 6 for over a year now, and it's user interface can be a bit obtuse, so I wrote myself a series of quick step-by-step guides for enabling certain features within the OMV workbench UI.