Hi, I'm Hussain.

A backend engineer focusing on minimal, highly-performant web architecture.

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#open-source#devops#homelab
Solving Homelab Authentication: A Story of Cloudflare, Authelia, Keycloak, and Tinyauth6-Aug-2026

Installing an unauthenticated homelab tool sparked a deep dive into self-hosted authentication—exploring Cloudflare Access, Authelia, Pocket ID, Keycloak, and landing on Tinyauth with Nginx Proxy Manager.

#terraform#s3#cloudflare#nginx#seaweedfs#devops
The hidden trap in Terraform's S3 backend (and why Cloudflare breaks it)3-Aug-2026

Why terraform init threw SignatureDoesNotMatch through Cloudflare Tunnels, and what AWS SDK v2 is doing behind the scenes.

#homelab#minio#seaweedfs#s3#self-hosting#open-source
Life after MinIO: Why I switched to SeaweedFS in my homelab30-Jul-2026

After discovering MinIO's repository was archived, I evaluated SeaweedFS and Garage for self-hosted S3 storage.

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  • ansible-role-chezmoi

    A modern Ansible role for installing and initializing the chezmoi dotfiles manager.

  • chezmoi-dotfiles

    My personal dotfiles managed with chezmoi, featuring a modern terminal experience powered by Fish and Starship.