Posts - Yassine Fathi

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Homelab

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.

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Homelab

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.

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Homelab

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.

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Homelab

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.

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Programming

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.

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Programming

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.

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Homelab

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.

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Homelab

Monitor a website for changes

A practical setup for monitoring websites for content changes and getting notified automatically. Self-hosted, private, and customizable.

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Homelab

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.