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Notifications, Notifications… and More Notifications
Staying updated when it comes to any part of your life is always crucial, but even more so when it comes to your …
Comments for My Blog
Blogs are great and all, but they need to have a level of interactivity, otherwise it can feel a bit dull. That’s where …
Self Hosted Link-in-Bio Solution
It’s nice to keep a link in my Instagram bio that links to some of the stuff I work on, just in case anyone wanted to …
Custom Prompt for All My Terminals
What’s the first thing you normally tend to interact with when you connect to a machine remotely. That’s right - the …
How I Accidentally Became an Expert in My School's Network Censorship
So after some totally innocent poking around at school, I found out our school was using Smoothwall to control our …
PowerShell Scripting for an overly specific problem
On our school laptops, for whatever reason, the applications menu from settings has been removed. As a result, you …
Overcomplicating Asset Serving
All the images on my blog need a place to live, and while I could just serve it on the blog itself, some of my other …
Some Notes on the UniFi APs
I recently learnt that you can control the UniFi APs LEDs via SSH, which allows you to script their control. This means …
Home Assistant... But Modular
Modularity always helps when it comes to the maintenance of complex systems, and so it should help when it comes to …
Controlling My UniFi AP Leds via Home Assistant
The UniFi U7 Pros have these neat LED rings on them, but they can be pretty distracting during the night - so I thought …
Self-hosting the UniFi Controller
In order to fully utilise the UniFi APs full feature set, you’ll need to have a UniFi controller of some sort. This can …
Un(Installing) Docker
Docker is one the most critical parts of my homelab, allowing services to run in their own containers, with access to …
Self-hosting a Password Manager
Passwords are one of the most important aspects of our digital lives nowadays, making the password manager of your …
Automating Node Provisioning
I’m planning to possibly add a Raspberry Pi 2 (Old, I know, but it does the job) to my lab, for providing some key …
Networking in the House
Let me just start by saying that I do not need any of this, it is more-or-less just because I can, and want to. Internet …
Google I/O 2025
I’m quite the tech enthusiast, especially when it comes to Google (I really really want to work there in the future). I …
What Is Init0?
This will be a short one. For those who didn’t know, init 0 is essentially another way to shutdown a unix-based …
Server Authentication in the lab
Why? One of the central aspects of my setup is the LLDAP server. This allows all services to authenticate using the same …
Introduction to the lab
Nodes Let’s take a look into what the ‘(home)lab’ (that’s quite a generous word) consists of… 1 Raspberry Pi 5 1 …
Welcome
Welcome to Init0 102:48:38 vivaan@ultimate ~ → man init0 Hey! Welcome to Init0, my digital notepad for all things techy, …