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From Counter Books to Self-Hosted Finance Tracking: My Journey with Firefly III

Anyone who reads self-improvement books like The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy or Atomic Habits by James Clear will tell you that the best way to make progress in any area of your life is to track it. Whether it&

November 08, 2025 · 7 min read
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From Idea to Deployment: AI-Assisted Development in Practice
Automation

From Idea to Deployment: AI-Assisted Development in Practice

I've been curious about building a WhatsApp bot for a while now—specifically, one that doesn't rely on the official WhatsApp Business API. The official route

Oct 17, 2025 · 7 min read
Automation Self-Hosted
Part 4 - Monitoring and Observability in My Homelab
Monitoring

Part 4 - Monitoring and Observability in My Homelab

This is the last part of my four-part homelab series. So far, I’ve talked about why I built my homelab, how I handle networking, and how I run software

Sep 26, 2025 · 7 min read
Monitoring Homelab Self-Hosted
Building a WhatsApp Bot in My Homelab
Automation

Building a WhatsApp Bot in My Homelab

Getting Curious One of the things I enjoy most about my homelab is that it gives me the freedom to tinker with random ideas. Not every project has to be

Sep 08, 2025 · 3 min read
Automation
Part 3 - Virtualization and Running Software in My Homelab
Self-Hosted

Part 3 - Virtualization and Running Software in My Homelab

Back in part 1, I laid the groundwork by talking about the hardware that makes up my homelab. In part 2, I moved on to networking and how I got

Aug 18, 2025 · 6 min read
Self-Hosted Open Source
Automating My Blog-to-LinkedIn Workflow
Automation

Automating My Blog-to-LinkedIn Workflow

As much as this blog is meant to be like a journal for my hobbies, I still want to reach a wider audience. I’m not active on social media

Aug 14, 2025 · 5 min read
Automation Self-Hosted
Part 2 — Networking in My Homelab
Networking

Part 2 — Networking in My Homelab

Networking is the backbone of the homelab. If the network is wonky, nothing else matters. In this post I’ll walk through how I connect the lab to the internet,

Aug 11, 2025 · 4 min read
Networking Homelab Self-Hosted
Monitoring and Securing My Web Server with ntopng and CrowdSec
Self-Hosted

Monitoring and Securing My Web Server with ntopng and CrowdSec

A practical setup for network observability and proactive defense on a self-hosted server. Background I run a web server (Ubuntu) that’s exposed to the internet — multiple apps and dashboards

Aug 06, 2025 · 2 min read
Self-Hosted Monitoring
Building My Playground(Part 1): An Introduction to My Homelab

Building My Playground(Part 1): An Introduction to My Homelab

Back in 2022, a few months into a new role at a large corporation, I quickly ran into a wall. Every time I wanted to experiment, spin up or get

Aug 04, 2025 · 3 min read
Running Your Own Mail Server with Maddy: A Practical Guide
Open Source

Running Your Own Mail Server with Maddy: A Practical Guide

So I was just tinkering around when I started this blog. I came across Ghost around this time last year (2024). I set it up and then forgot about it.

Aug 01, 2025 · 4 min read
Open Source Self-Hosted
Weekend Project: Adding AI to the Homelab
Homelab

Weekend Project: Adding AI to the Homelab

Over the weekend, I finally scratched an itch I’d had for a while: running AI in my homelab. After doing a bit of research, I settled on some decent

Jul 29, 2025 · 5 min read
Homelab Self-Hosted
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