OpenVPN Access Server: bridging home lab to AWS, no duct tape
I run a small lab in my office that talks to a few EC2 instances in eu-west-1, and until last month the connection was a constant source of friction. SSH keys scp’d…
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Tailscale on Linux, the VPN that skips the certificate headache
Tailscale is a VPN built on top of WireGuard (a kernel-level encrypted tunnel protocol) that replaces the certificate and key-management parts with identity-based authentication. You install it on a server, you install…
Pick a Linux backup tool in 2026 without burning another weekend
I have spent the better part of a decade running backup strategies for production servers and personal workstations. If there is one thing I have learned the hard way, it is this:…
A self-hosted dashboard for Hermes Agent that does not need a browser zoo
If you have been running Hermes Agent on your own box and you keep opening three or four tabs just to check what your assistant is doing, you already know the pain.…
Find the Linux process hogging your bandwidth in under a minute
Your Linux server’s network is maxed out and you have no idea what is eating it. The standard reflex is to look at top or htop, and when those do not help…
Self-hosting a website from a Linux box at home, the cheap way
I run a small WordPress site from a Linux box under my desk. The box cost me about the same as a year of managed hosting from a major provider, and it…
Schedule one-off Linux jobs with at and stop abusing cron
I used to write cron entries for things that should have been one-shot jobs. A temporary firewall rule for a vendor. A service restart at 2 AM. A reminder to pull a…
Slashing image weight for free, without wrecking pixels
Large images are a silent killer for websites. They slow down page loads, eat up storage space, and frustrate visitors who bounce before your content even loads. I have been dealing with…
Stop paying for software your business could run for free
Most businesses still pay for software they could get for free. Not because the people making the decisions are stupid, but because nobody showed them there is a better way. After years…
Ollama or LocalAI, and which one to actually install
Most people who want to run large language models (LLMs, the AI systems that generate text and code) on their own machine have heard of Ollama. You install it, type ollama run…