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I finally took some time to revamp my homelab. The original setup was pretty humble: a Raspberry Pi flashed with OpenMediaVault and two USB DAS units hanging off it. I had a few containers running, and it served me well for a while.

But then Home Assistant came into my life.

Running it in a …

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Lately, procrastinating on a personal project has seemed to be the leitmotif of my existence! I don’t know if it’s the new job or the recent DIY home renovation, but this project has been sitting stalled on my shelf for months-ever since I started it last summer.

While working on the Ampere …

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2023 was a year of joy, and there is no joy without builds! After experimenting with self-hosting, NAS, and video surveillance, I decided to revamp my tools of the trade and give a companion to my Redox Scenic, integrating all the missing features. Here I proudly present the Ampere Pad v1!

It …

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Serendipity: the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way. No better word could describe the natural unfolding of things on this side of the screen. When I was writing part 1 of this article, I started documenting my process and Notion grabbed my attention. I …

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I had a dream! Taking notes in a smooth, centralized way, without accumulation and consequently losing dozens of scribbled pages. Combining those handwritten notes I take during a meeting, a debug, a study session, a tinkering process, with information from different sources: my phone, my …

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Thrift market, again! This time I brought home an item I’ve been looking for so long: the Elecom Huge Trackball mouse. I was so lucky to find it new at a fraction of the price. What a strike!

The mouse itself might seem a bit intimidating, because of its shape and dimension, but is so …

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The new year has already started and I must say I am really enjoying working from home and, moreover working as a freelancer. This gives more time for myself and my beautiful and ever-wonderful girlfriend, for my hobbies and to study a bit. When you save a solid 10 hours a week by slashing …

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Recently, I’ve been busy moving stuff from one house to another, changing jobs and once again re-organizing my life. Plus, I decided to go freelance! New starts always get me thrilled, although the problem is my timing: I tend to do many things at once! One of the first things I setup …

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2020 will be remembered by many as the year when their life radically changed. I am also part of the many, as I had to do a hard career drift: from being a well known music producer and teacher to a wannabe web developer. I went back to school, did my bootcamp, completed my internship and …

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Have you ever been in a thrift market? Those fascinating places filled with dusty trinkets, old books and all sorts of vintage oddities, where with patience and luck you get excellent deals or just a bag filled with garbage. Leaving the garbage part alone, I’ve always had an attraction …