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Setup a Cloudflare Tunnel to securely access self-hosted apps with a domain from outside the home network
Updated February 3, 2025 10 min read
Cloudflare Tunnels have been around for a few years and are well regarded alternatives for VPNs or port-forwarding on a router. They are often used to expose access to self-hosted apps from outside the local network with minimal config or hassle. Here's how it's done.
Set up PhotoSync app to backup photos from your phone to an SMB share on your home server
Updated February 3, 2025 3 min read
Google Photos began limiting free storage back in 2021, limiting you to 15 GB of storage when uploading photos in their original size uncompressed. Rather than wait and see if I hit the cap, I decided to try replacing Google Photos with a self-hosted solution. Here's how I did it.
Build a minimal blog with Deno and host it on Deno Deploy
Updated February 3, 2025 5 min read
I'd been meaning to play around with Deno and finally got around to doing it in the quickest, easiest (and laziest) way possible -- using a minimal blog template. I also took the opportunity to learn how Deno Deploy works. The whole thing is quick and painless, here's how to do it.
How to generate a GPG key and use it to sign git commits
Updated February 3, 2025 3 min read
Generating and using a GPG key is not difficult, but every time I need to remember how to do it to sign my commits from a new machine, I need to go through several pages of explanation on GitHub. So I made myself a terse and concise one-page quick guide, here it is.
Setup Prometheus, Node Exporter, Cadvisor and Grafana in Docker
Updated February 3, 2025 3 min read
When running a headless home server, you may want to set up a monitoring solution to keep track of your server's performance. Node Exporter will expose your server's metrics, cAdvisor will expose metrics for Docker containers, and Prometheus will scrape and collect those metrics, which is then used as a data source for Grafana dashboards. Here's how to get it all set up in Docker.

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