Self-Hosting an LLM Gateway with LiteLLM
How I built a private OpenAI-compatible gateway that routes to six LLM providers, with SSO, caching, budget alerts, and spend tracking. All self-hosted, all under my control.
Zerobyte: A Web UI for restic That Replaces Your Backup Scripts
Zerobyte wraps the restic backup engine in a modern web dashboard—scheduled jobs, visual retention policies, and point-and-click restores. Here’s how to set it up and how it compares to a CLI-only pipeline.
Build Private AI Agents in Your Homelab with Ollama and n8n
Run local LLMs with Ollama and wire them into automated workflows with n8n. A practical guide to building private AI agents that monitor logs, triage emails, summarize feeds, and more—all on your own hardware, at zero cost.
Unified Identity for Your Homelab: Using Pocket ID to Authenticate Every Self-Hosted Service
Replace scattered logins with a single passkey-based identity provider. A practical guide to deploying Pocket ID and connecting it to Immich, Proxmox, Grafana, and more.
Building a Fast, Encrypted & Private Backup Pipeline with restic, rest‑server, Hetzner Storage Box & Tailscale VPN
A step-by-step guide to building an encrypted, off-site backup pipeline with restic, rest-server, Hetzner Storage Box, and Tailscale VPN. Updated for restic 0.18 with append-only mode and Prometheus monitoring.
Automating Cloudflare DNS with Traefik Using Traeflare
Traeflare watches your Traefik configuration and automatically creates, updates, and removes Cloudflare DNS records to match. No more manual DNS management.
Decrypting Rails Cookies in Go
A deep dive into the Rails encrypted cookie format and a working Go implementation to decrypt them. Useful when migrating services from Rails to Go or building cross-language session sharing.
Unlock Secure Freedom - Route All Traffic Through Tailscale + Gluetun
Combine Tailscale’s mesh networking with Gluetun’s VPN container to route all traffic through a secure tunnel. Zero config on client devices, full privacy on the wire.
Monitor a website for changes
A practical setup for monitoring websites for content changes and getting notified automatically. Self-hosted, private, and customizable.
Automatically sync Traefik records with Cloudflare DNS using Traeflare
This article has been superseded. See the updated version: Automating Cloudflare DNS with Traefik Using Traeflare.