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Replacing my Synology NAS with a self-built server

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Replacing my Synology NAS with a self-built server

🧓🏻Old post I don't use TrueNAS anymore but I still have this machine and I even upgraded the RAM to a more comfortable 56GB. A few weeks ago, I replaced my trusty Synology DS216play with a more powerful station that I built myself. I hadn't built

Migration complete

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Migration complete

I just moved this blog to my self-hosted server at home. Hopefully nothing is broken but if you see something strange or missing, please contact me! 😃 I also hope we won't experience any major outages like power (both the server and the router are on UPS) or network.

Blog platform update - Quick note

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Blog platform update - Quick note

I just moved from Writefreely to a custom made blog engine. Writefreely is great but I wanted more control over every bit of the template and style and I couldn't easily achieve what I wanted. Challenge #100DaysToOffload No. 17 The code powering this website is available at Gitea

Designing and 3D Printing a Wall Mount for my ISP Modem

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Designing and 3D Printing a Wall Mount for my ISP Modem

I recently moved to a new apartment and now I have a little closet which contains the electrical board. It's also where the optical fiber comes in and so it's where I put my ISP-provided modem. For a few weeks, it sat on the floor in

GitHub alternative git software forge

Sourcehut

🧓🏻Old post This post is quite old now. Since then, I've moved my git repositories to a self-hosted gitea instance and I cancelled my subscription. I still stand behind this post though. Sourcehut is a solid git forge and keeps improving. For a few weeks now I'

Blog Statistics, Part 2

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Blog Statistics, Part 2

In a recent post, I talked about how I tracked my posts views over time using Grafana and InfluxDB. Today, I went another way and configured GoAccess to provide me with an HTML report with data extracted from my webserver's logs. 💡This blog has changed platforms multiple times

I Needed a Budget, With Four Rules

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I Needed a Budget, With Four Rules

In January 2020, I discovered a budget app called You Need A Budget (YNAB). I've been using it since then and I'm very happy with it, here's why. Challenge #100DaysToOffload No. 13 At first, I didn't think I needed a budget. After

Chat Sceptique (French YouTube Channel)

Chat Sceptique (French YouTube Channel)

Today's very quick post is a recommendation to a french YouTube channel. It's called Chat Sceptique and features a statistician popularizing many different topics related to statistics. The same person was behind another channel which is not active anymore due to conflicts between the team members:

Two Grafana graphs: one to view the raw view counts evolving, the other to display the difference between two data points

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Adding Time to my Blog's Statistics

Recently I added some statistics to my blog. I wanted to do that with minimum effort and without serving any crappy proprietary JavaScript to my users. 💡This blog has changed platforms multiple times since this article. I don't use this setup anymore. Challenge #100DaysToOffload No. 11 My blog

Bitwarden and Password Managers

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Bitwarden and Password Managers

TL;DR: I use a password manager and you should too. Bitwarden is a Free Software alternative. This is my 10th post of #100DaysToOffload. Password managers We all have a lot of online accounts now, between banks, emails, marketplaces, public institutions, games, transport, storage, food delivery, … The list goes on.

DNS Raspberry Pi self-hosting

Pi Hole

👵Old post I don't use Pi Hole anymore but this post should still be relevant. I've switched to AdGuard. There is an easy to install Home Assistant addon available and it allows me to easily configure local-only DNS entries. As I was telling you before, I

Cleantoots - Clean Your Toot History

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Cleantoots - Clean Your Toot History

💡This feature is now built into Mastodon. Since I consider my messages on social media to be valid at the moment they're posted, I like to have them deleted after some time. When I still used Twitter, I also used a CLI tool called cleantweets that helped with

Cover picture for CodinGame Spring Challenge 2020. There is one yellow Pacman and one blue Pacman fighting against each other

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CodinGame Spring Challenge 2020 - Pacman

I participated in the latest CodinGame challenge and quickly got out of the beginner's league. In this article, I'll explain my approach. Challenge #100DaysToOffload No. 7 CodinGame is a coding platform on which you can solve puzzles by writing a program in the language of your

Keys and Yubikeys

Using Your YubiKey With SSH and Achieving Multifactor Authentication

In my introductory article, I teased about using SSH with a YubiKey. Here's the post that expands on the idea. This is part of my #100DaysToOffload series, issue No. 6. I won't go into much detail as to how to set them up, other people did.

Raspberry Pi backup monitoring self-hosting

Raspberry Pi

👵This post has grown old and I now don't use my Raspberry Pi like this anymore. I bought a Raspberry Pi 3 model B+ about a year ago. I had to check the order date because I was pretty sure I had it for longer but I only

Upgraded writefreely - Quick Note

Upgraded writefreely - Quick Note

I upgraded writefreely (the software that powers this blog) to get a fix making my #100DaysToOffload tags now clickable (they were previously not). So I'll stop adding the HundredDaysToOffload tag which was there as a temporary workaround. If you use it to track my posts, please move to

YouTube on Apple TV

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YouTube on Apple TV

Today's post will mostly be me ranting about the YouTube app on Apple TV. See, I have a pretty typical Apple user setup for my TV (and as you'll maybe learn in future posts, it's not only for the TV). I have: * an Apple

How to subscribe

How to subscribe

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Synology NAS: Stream & Backup

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Synology NAS: Stream & Backup

This is the third issue of my #100DaysToOffload My Synology NAS (DS 216play) has two 2 TB hard drives and serves two main purposes in my setup: * Store media files (mainly movies and TV shows) & stream them * Hold some backups What I don't really use I sporadically

My Setup at Home

My Setup at Home

This post will serve as an introduction to others that will follow. I will try to remember to update this publication to add a reference to the new ones but I can't promise I won't forget. Meanwhile, feel free to use the tags at the end

I'm starting a blog

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I'm starting a blog

I came up across two posts recently that got me thinking: * Kev Quirk's 100 Days To Offload * Drew Devault's You should make a blog! That was it, I needed a place to write my thoughts too. So here it is! This blog will be my little