014. Perfection
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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013. PromptSmith a friendly prompt helper
TL,DR: I made a TUI application to help you improve your prompts https://github.com/pr0z4k/promptsmith-cli . "2001: A Space Odyssey" doesn't begin with spaceships. It all begins with a tool. The famous opening sequence isn't about technology. It's about the moment humanity discovers that an ordinary object can fundamentally change how problems are solved. A bone becomes a tool. Everything after…
012. Dynamic DNS Python Script -> deSEC.io DNS Service
Introduction Dynamic DNS is one of those things that sounds trivial until it breaks your entire remote access setup. Because #lazy, I was relying on the router’s built-in DDNS (noip.com), which worked… until it didn’t. The DNS record stopped reflecting the actual WAN IP, and suddenly my WireGuard tunnels across sites became unreliable, that and the fact that noip.com services…
011. Deploying Centralized TLS Certificates Node + Docker Application
Motivation Centralizing certificate issuance is step one . Step two is making nodes consume that certificate automatically, without copying files by hand like it’s a 2004 LAN party. In this guide we’ll pull the wildcard cert for yourdomain.com from a “cert VM”, store it locally, and use it in a docker-compose stack serving HTTPS content is issuance a word? it made sense in…
010. Centralized Wildcard Certificate on Debian with Let’s Encrypt + deSEC
Motivation When running multiple services in a #homelab, private certificates become a nuance, also, when sharing these services with other people it can become a "support nightmare" the security risks notifications in browsers for non tech-users. By enabling one Debian VM/LXC container as the locally centralized point of automated request, update and have them ready to consume by other…
009. Caddy Server Auth Crunch Plugin
Building on our previous setup of Caddy as Webproxy to your #homelab resources most likely you will be now in the situation where you end up in two sets of sites/services that you want to make available to the internet. Public service - deemed as completely public, al content is to be visible and searchable through the internet some examples of this may be, a static website, your blog, a public…
008. The Web Is Meant to Be Personal
“Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible.” — Alan Turing (.... movie Character, so in reality the Screenwriter Graham Moore ) If you're reading this post, you're already on the internet. But which internet are we on, exactly? The modern web is largely defined by platform monopolies, walled gardens, algorithmic feeds, and massive cloud backends that need and…
007. Setting up VPS Webproxy to #homelab servers using Tailscale
In the current age of remote access and #self-hosting, one of the most tempting solutions is to expose your local services directly to the internet — but that usually comes at a cost: security, complexity, and peace of mind. While opening ports and configuring dynamic DNS might feel like the "quick win," it introduces unnecessary attack surfaces to your home network. There is a different…
006. Why #SelfHosting should be preferred
In 2025, we have all seen a shift in the way Big-Tech companies work / operate, finding ways to further increase profits due to an overall rise of cloud hosting costs, this may be masqueraded by IT Media Publishing as "growth", where outlining the increases on Cloud Infrastructure by companies as something positive ( One Reference ), however, the current Enterprise trend points the next few years…
005. Oracle Cloud Always Free Instance Ubuntu -> Debian Conversion
Motivation. During 2016, Oracle started a public services of cloud IaaS, PaaS, etc., Component of their adoption strategy includes an assortment of "Always Free" resources available to service account owners. Leaving aside the Philosophical , ownership and open source concerns from the community, these Always Free resources still provide a great testing and learning ground for #homelab and…