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How im Using Minecraft to Learn CI/CD

Every friend group gets the yearly urge to play Minecraft for two weeks. Here's the pipeline I built so updating my server stops being the annoying part.

CI/CDForgejoMinecraftHomelabDevOps
September 22, 2026 · 3 min

Diagnosing a Dying RAID Array (and a Dead Cache Battery)

How I tracked down why my homelab server suddenly got slow, and fixed it properly instead of just throwing more drives at it

HomelabProxmoxRAIDStorageHPETroubleshooting
September 8, 2026 · 2 min

Getting started with Self-Hosting

a guide to self-hosting and data ownership

HostingServerProxyPangolinTailscaleFOSSBeginners
July 31, 2026 · 5 min

Edge AI IDS on Microcontrollers

Benchmarking 11 ML and deep learning models for IoT intrusion detection deployed directly on physical MCU hardware.

PythonMachine LearningTinyMLIoTCybersecurityEmbeddedResearch
May 31, 2026 · 6 min

Learning Go

Project based learning for Golang

GoLearningProgrammingCybersecurity
March 30, 2026 · 3 min

Aquilo (WIP)

Privacy-first community chat platform (think Discord but FOSS, self-hostable, no surveillance). Part of the Hydraulisc ecosystem.

JavaScriptSQLitePGPAES-256OAuth
March 16, 2026 · 3 min

Linkpen

FOSS alternative for linktree

FOSS AlternativeJavaScriptProgramming
February 28, 2026 · 2 min

AI Game Automation System

AI system that automates gameplay in Trackmania using computer vision and deep learning.

PythonMachine LearningDeep LearningComputer VisionAutomation
February 27, 2026 · 1 min

Breach Browser

A full-text search engine for large text datasets, built on Elasticsearch, Flask, and resume-capable batch indexing.

PythonElasticsearchFlaskDockerOSINT
February 26, 2026 · 1 min

AI-Powered Weed Detection System

YOLOv8-based weed detection pipeline that turns drone GeoTIFs into geolocated heatmaps for farmers.

PythonYOLOv8FlaskRasterioGeoPandasComputer VisionMachine Learning
February 25, 2026 · 1 min

Portable Router running OpenWRT on a Raspberry Pi 4

Raspberry Pi 4B based router running OpenWRT

Open SourceNetworkOpenWrtRouterRaspberry PiCybersecurityVLANs
February 24, 2026 · 1 min

PrivacyMatters Blog

A privacy-focused blogging platform with PGP-enabled profiles, built on Laravel + Livewire + Alpine. v1, now retired.

LaravelLivewireAlpine.jsTailwindCSSNGINXSQLitePrivacy
February 24, 2026 · 1 min

Domain Availability Checker

A Python tool that mines the NLTK words corpus for available, brandable domain names via WHOIS.

PythonNLTKWHOISAutomationData Mining
February 23, 2026 · 1 min

Data Engineering Internship

13 weeks building a CSRD-compliant sustainability data platform for a large brewery group on Microsoft Fabric and dbt.

Microsoft FabricdbtPySparkSQL ServerAzure DevOpsData Engineering
February 22, 2026 · 3 min

Self Hosting

A short post about hosting and deploying.

HostingServerProxyPangolinDocker
February 21, 2026 · 2 min

PGP Verification

A 2FA system using PGP challenge-response for identity verification without KYC or personal data collection.

PythonStreamlitPGPycryptographyprivacy
February 19, 2026 · 2 min