Building a bulletproof family photo archive: Flickr, Synology, and Backblaze B2
Or: how I stopped trusting a single cloud provider with fifteen years of irreplaceable memories and built something that would survive a small apocalypse.
March 2026
Why your password manager isn't enough, and how a hardware key changes everything
A personal deep-dive into modern authentication, hardware security keys, and why I ended up ordering two YubiKeys from Sweden at 11pm on a Tuesday.
Your own private cloud file share with Samba, Alpine Linux, and Nebula
There is a certain kind of person who looks at services like Dropbox or OneDrive and thinks: "Why would I let someone else hold my files when I can spend three hours on a Saturday doing it myself and have something objectively cooler?" If you are that kind of person, welcome. This article is for you.*
Building a zero-trust overlay network with Nebula
A report on connecting a VPS, a Debian homelab server, macOS and iOS, all without losing your mind.
How I got GoAccess to actually remember things; A self-hosted traffic dashboard that survives reboots
The pain of pipe problems, empty databases, and the stubborn joy of owning your own data.
I migrated from MXroute + a self-hosted Radicale stack to Fastmail (without losing a single email)
The deep, human, technical playbook