Blogs

This is part of series Building a homelab, where I document my journey to build my own homelab with Kubernetes. Creating a Kubernetes cluster with Talos Linux Up until now, I have had some experiences with self-hosting services. However, as I learned more, I could see ways to make my setup better. While learning about Kubernetes, I thought it could be used to host everything that I have self-hosted so far. If I could get it right, it would allow me to manage all the services while also reducing costs. ...

Sometimes, I like to record music and videos that will be left as pieces of memory to reminisce about. I am neither a professional music producer nor a content creator, but I have managed to learn just enough to do what I wanted. As I worked on another one before finishing this year, I wanted to try a new tool. As one could guess from the title, I gave Zrythm a shot. ...

It has been some time since I started writing on Listed. Although the development around the blogging platform seems to be slow-paced (which I feel is an understatement) and some note-taking services like Anytype also offer publication of notes, I have yet to find a compelling reason nor devote my time for migration. That said, there is one thing I do want to see an improvement to. ...

This is a part of series Building a project, where I try to make something using OpenStack. Learning about OpenStack Preparing a server Attempting to run Kubernetes and OpenStack With my server ready, I was excited to get Kubernetes running. Following a guide I came across online, I added a few lines of configuration and applied it right away. ...

This is a part of series Building a project, where I try to make something using OpenStack. Learning about OpenStack Preparing a server Attempting to run Kubernetes and OpenStack Introduction After a long, long hiatus, I decided give this project a push. Although I stopped after introducing myself to a very basic overview of OpenStack, I still heard about it from time to time. ...

It is understandable that not every software on the internet is available on any given Linux distribution, but it is sometimes disappointing when something I have been looking for is missing. Introduction When Arch Linux was my daily driver, Flatpak (with Flathub) and Arch User Repository (AUR) provided enough packages to satisfy my needs. However, I have since switched to NixOS and almost ditched Flatpak from my system. Even still, there were two things I could try: ...

Ente is a platform to host photos that uses end-to-end encryption to store its data. I have more than a decade of photos saved with Google Photos, but I wanted to keep them in a place that is designed to be private. The problem, however, was that the collection grew to a few terabytes over the years, and putting them on a privacy-respecting image platform was either very expensive or outright impossible. To work around the problem, I decided to self-host Ente. ...

I use Arch btw Not any more. During my last post about deploying PeerTube, I considered using NixOS for the server. I eventually decided against it due to a steep learning curve, but Nix’s goal of declarative environment made me eager to try it out one day. Arch Linux has been the daily driver on my laptop for well over two years. I had no complaints with it, receiving timely updates while still being a generally stable system. However, even though reproducibility is not exactly what I need in such a device, the ability to roll back with ease as well as declare my setup in a Git repository was appealing to me. ...

Since around September 2025, Listed no longer accepts new requests for custom domains. The information below is therefore no longer relevant, but nevertheless kept as a record of what I have been through to make it work back then. Custom domains are available for Standard Notes members with an active Productivity or Professional plan. Domains include an HTTPS certificate, and require only a simple DNS record on your end. ...

I used Windows for a few hours on my laptop, which dual boots Arch Linux and Windows 11, and rebooted into Linux. However, after a while of unusual waiting, it failed to do so. It would have been nice to read the error first, but having previously experienced a similar problem, which once occurred when I first installed Windows 11 on top of the existing Linux installation thanks to anti-cheat software, I felt it has something to do with a damaged partition table. ...