Writing on infrastructure design, company building, and automation.

All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.

Setting up Zigbee2MQTT: A Smart Home Adventure

My journey through setting up Zigbee2MQTT - from initial struggles to a working smart home setup, with all the technical details you need.

Setting up OpenHAB: A Complete Installation Guide

A step-by-step guide to installing OpenHAB on Linux, covering the entire process from initial setup to verification, based on real-world experience and practical tips.

Converting a Windows PFX Certificate to PEM for Linux

This article details the steps I took to convert a Windows PFX certificate into a PEM format, making it usable on Linux systems. I encountered the challenge of only having a PFX certificate and needed to find a solution to use it in my Linux environment, specifically with NGINX.

Install HA k3s with Traefik, CertManager, and a Virtual IP

In this process, we set up a high-availability Kubernetes cluster using k3s and Keepalived, and then installed and configured CertManager for certificate management and Traefik as an ingress controller, ensuring a robust, secure, and scalable infrastructure.

My new home network infrastructure

The article recounts the author's experience in upgrading their home network to a sophisticated homelab setup, involving the installation of advanced networking hardware and overcoming technical challenges during the migration process, ultimately resulting in a more capable and customized network infrastructure.

Proxmox VE Cloud-Init Debian 12

Solun is a service that allows you to share files, text and sending emails with end-to-end encryption, without having to worry about your privacy.

Solun Deploy

In this article we will look at how to deploy Solun and save ourselves most of the work. But at the same time we also want to have a good visible version history that we manage via Discord.

Solun Structure and Infrastructure

We try to structure the Solun network as well as possible and at the same time be as cheap as possible. In this article, we will show you how we have structured our server and what we have chosen for it.

Solun Privacy

How safe is Solun and how can you participate. We also ask ourselves the question what is the future of Solun? We will answer all these questions in this article.

Solun Introduction

Solun is a service that allows you to share files, text and sending emails with end-to-end encryption, without having to worry about your privacy.