Adventures in IPv6, Firewalls & the “Oops-I-Forgot” Department 🚀
So, a few days ago I thought: “Hey, let’s be cool, ditch Apache, and hop onto the Nginx hype train because… HTTP/3, baby!” 🎉 Fast-forward to today, when I decided…
How I Managed to Wreck My Firewall Appliance With a Debian 13 Upgrade
Yesterday I proudly hit publish on a post about my super smooth upgrade to Debian 13… feeling like a proper Linux wizard. 🧙♂️ A few hours later, reality slapped me…
🧼 Cleaning Up Filenames on Linux with detox – The Tiny Tool That Saved My Backups
😤 When a Backup Fails… Because of a Filename Recently, one of my automated backups on Linux unexpectedly crashed mid-run. No fancy error message, no graceful fallback — just a…
🚀 Moving a Grown-Up Nextcloud Instance to a Fresh Server (with Bash & Ansible)
(This article is the logical follow-up to the backup script described here: Nextcloud Backup Like a Pro – Automated with Bash. Both posts go hand in hand to complete the…
🛡️🧙♂️ Deploying Nextcloud: My Ansible Quest for Ultimate Automation ⚔️☁️
🤖 So, What Is This “Ansible” Magic? Ansible is basically the spellbook every modern sysadmin dreams of. It’s an open-source automation engine that lets you write playbooks—YAML files describing exactly…
How I Back Up My Mom’s PC Over VPN — Without the Cloud (or Headaches)
Let’s be honest: keeping family members’ devices backed up is something many of us in tech mean to do — but often don’t. Between the complexity of cloud solutions, the…
Patch Me If You Can: Keeping Debian VMs Updated with Ansible (Without Losing My Weekend)
I have around 12 Debian-based VMs running in my homelab. A while ago, I used to update them all manually — one by one. SSH into each machine, run apt…
📡 Shipping Logs Like a Pro: Fluent Bit Meets Ansible in My Homelab
By now, my little homelab has grown into a small but mighty fleet of virtual machines — almost a dozen of them are humming along nicely. But with more services…