I like to have control of my files, but at the same time I want them to be easily available — everywhere. I’ve been struggling with finding the golden path between accessibility, convenience, privacy and safety. This is what I have come up with (so far).

So we bought a new house — now to disassemble everything and prepare to move!

I made a simple script that adds entries to a map file — which HAProxy reads. And voila — a URL shortener! 👇

A lot of my homelab traffic goes through the HAProxy reverse proxy — making it a single point of failure. This can be fixed by having two HAProxy servers and a floating IP.

I recently signed up with ProtonMail — I wanted something secure, able to handle PGP encryption and with a nice webmail interface and Android app. After giving the free account a quick look, I upgraded to a paid account and moved two custom domains over. Everything was going great. Time to import my decade of emails into my ProtonMail account…

My kids wanted traffic lights for their LEGO city, so first I had to build a traffic lights controller.

My twins and I both like LEGO, and LEDs. I figured I’d make some simple LED street lights that we could use to build a LEGO scenery.

After reading blog posts from BunnyCDN and Ctrl blog on the varying performance on top-level domains — I got curious on how .no would perform.

My file server, Zeta, has an mdadm RAID6 array with eight 4 TB disks. I want to expand, but before doing so I’m going to migrate to ZFS.

I’m using Prometheus to monitor my home office and homelab, I figured it would be cool to have a stack light show the active warnings and alerts from Alertmanager. So I made a HAT (Hardware Attached on Top) for the Raspberry Pi to drive a five-colored stack light.