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Self-hosting an all-in-one chat app

There are so many different chat platforms out there, all needing their own apps and account to use. Each one is just …

Distributed Ingress

A homelab is great and all, until something takes out your internet, or power, or anything else that it depends on. As …

Tools for VEX TM

As a past VEX competitor, I know how amazing the experience can be when you’re at a competition with a great …

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 …

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 my 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 to Init0

1man init0

Hey! Welcome to Init0, my digital notepad for all things techy, where I share whatever I happen to be working …