git log –since=”1 year ago”: One Year of apt-upgrade.me && Publishing the Ansible Playbooks for Nextcloud on K3s

Fri, 15 May 2026 14:18:55 +0200

There comes a point in every homelab journey where you look at your pile of

bash scripts, hand-crafted config files, and sticky notes that say things like

“remember to chown /data before starting” — and you decide:

enough. 😅

This is that post. Today I’m publishing the Ansible playbooks I’ve been using to deploy

and operate Nextcloud ☁️ and WordPress 📝 on a

single-node K3s cluster running on AlmaLinux 9.

Everything is infrastructure-as-code, fully idempotent,

Signal vs. WhatsApp: The Ultimate Nerd Showdown — Privacy, Big Tech, Metadata, and Why Signal Feels Like Digital Freedom

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:08:17 +0100

If you’ve spent more than five minutes in a tech forum, you’ve seen it:

The eternal, flaming-hot, caffeine-fueled debate of Signal vs. WhatsApp.

At a glance, both apps look similar — encrypted chats, emojis, voice messages, and that one friend who sends 14 screenshots instead of explaining anything.But once you crawl under the hood (like every good nerd does at 3 AM), the differences become huge. Not in encryption — ironically, they both use the same crypto protocol — but in ownership, metadata usage, and how much of your digital soul you’re handing over.

Open-source apps – apt-upgrade.me – Homelab, Linux & DevSecOps

git log –since=”1 year ago”: One Year of apt-upgrade.me && Publishing the Ansible Playbooks for Nextcloud on K3s

Signal vs. WhatsApp: The Ultimate Nerd Showdown — Privacy, Big Tech, Metadata, and Why Signal Feels Like Digital Freedom