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A bit of Python makes a long way when it comes to binding together complementary services that have no matching API's.

A simple solution for the laughable range of the inverter built-in wireless access point.

A Python 3 wrapper to manage restic repositories and monitor them with Nagios-compliant outputs, created by yours truly.

An affordable solution to set up a basic root CA with physical security for your sensitive keys.

Pi-Hole is an excellent solution to block ads, trackers and malware network-wide at the DNS level. With a few tweaks, it can be a great asset for privacy on the Internet.

Setting up unbound is simple. Getting it to work on Debian Buster with DNS-over-TLS is no rocket science either but does require some fine-tuning explained in this article.

A write-up on how I selected a lightweight tool to finally throw away those big piles of paper and get a decent full text index of all these official documents.

This article covers the specifics of getting OpenVPN to work on unprivileged containers with Proxmox VE 5.2 and the configuration specifics for a site-to-site link.

CTFd is a nice and easy to use CTF management platform based on Python. This article gives a straight guide for quick deployment on a bare Ubuntu 18.04 VM/Container, in case you cannot use Docker.

Following performance issues with my all-in-one IPS/Router setup on my home network, I decided to split it between a pfSense-based IPS and a Linux-based router. This article explains why I made that choice, how I revised my architecture and the resulting implementation.