This is my corner of the internet — where I break, fix, test, and tinker.
Here you’ll find my notes on self-hosted projects, automation quirks, tech rabbit holes, and the occasional rant when things just don't work.
I'm building this site to document everything I learn, from Home Assistant setups to OpenWRT tweaks, investment experiments, and smart ways to stay sane in a world full of APIs.
If it saved me time or sanity, you’ll probably find it here.
If it made me scream into the void, even better xD
Welcome to a complete walkthrough of how I set up a secure, user-friendly self-hosted Filebrowser instance using Docker, Portainer, Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM), and Cloudflare DNS. This guide includes pitfalls, permissions issues, volume struggles, and what I learned along the way. We wanted two separate…
Continue reading...This was supposed to be easy. A quick project. Something light. Instead, it was a 3-hour battle of broken paths, DNS trickery, and debugging in the dark. But I won. And the result? A self-hosted website fully running on a Raspberry Pi, encrypted, reverse-proxied, and…
Continue reading...📚 Table of Contents 1. What Is Windows Servicing? 2. Windows Update Internals (Stack, Components) 3. Servicing Stack Updates (SSU) & Failure Symptoms 4. Local vs Enterprise Update Flow (WSUS/Intune) 5. Understanding Update Types 6. Component Store, Assemblies, Manifests, Registry Mapping 7. Common Update Failures…
Continue reading...What started as a weekend experiment now that the sun is out turned into a bit of a headache. After I checked my OpenUV automations from last year I realized that something was not working as intended. First thing I noticed was that the UV…
Continue reading...Pi-hole Problems & DNS Shenanigans on My DietPi Network I’ve been running Pi-hole on my Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (4GB RAM) with DietPi for a while now. It’s usually rock solid — but a few weeks ago I started noticing strange behavior: slow page…
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