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Mar/25Home Assistant: Naming Convention
Overview A boring yet important topic that I’m sure many have come across in their working life. Home Assistant has it’s own naming conventions for developers. This topic falls into do what you want but I’m of the nature to … Continue reading
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Feb/25Centralising Identities And Authentication With Authentik
Overview Managing the plethora of accounts and the associate credentials is annoying at the best of times. With the number of services I’m self hosting it’s more to manage whilst aligning to security best practices as much as possible. Before, … Continue reading
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Jan/25Self Hosted Productivity Tools 2025
Overview A list of useful productivity tools which are self hosted. These are self hosted for various reasons and a good snapshot of the tools I use on a frequent basis. I am hoping this list will grow to as … Continue reading
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Dec/24Home Assistant: Home Modes
Overview A quick walk through of how I use home mode in Home Assistant. This is not a tutorial but more of guide and idea of what I use them for. Dropdown / Input Select Helper I use a helper … Continue reading
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Nov/24Uptime Kuma
Overview I use a combination of cloud and self hosted monitoring tools and in this case it’s the latter. Why? Utilising the concept of being alerted when something is down (or up in some cases) allows notifications or alerts to … Continue reading
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Oct/24Exposing Homelab
Overview Opening home services to the world wide web is a security concern and technologies such as VPNs have gotten a lot easier to setup. However, there are times where you cannot install a VPN client and I haven’t had … Continue reading
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Sep/24Replaced IFTTT With n8n.io
Overview I was lucky to be on the IFTTT Legacy price plan where I could set the price of what I wanted to pay per month. I believe it started from $1.99 so that was what I chose. As time … Continue reading
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Aug/24Why I Moved From Zerotier To Tailscale
Overview I had been using Zerotier one for a while and worked great. The main use was to remotely connect to Home Assistant. After listening to an episode of Linux Unplugged (I think episode 525) I thought I’d check out … Continue reading