How I Made My Terminal Fast and Consistent Across Mac and Windows I used to have two totally different terminal setups: iTerm2 with Oh My Zsh on my Mac, and Windows Terminal with Oh My Posh on my PC. They were slow to load, heavy, and looked nothing alike. So I ripped them out and […]
Running a modern self-hosted infrastructure or homelab is a constant balancing act between security and convenience. We want to expose our web applications—whether it’s WordPress, automated workflow tools, or local LLM interfaces—to the internet without leaving the front door wide open to threat actors. For a long time, Caddy has been my reverse proxy of […]
Can you build a self-hosted AI solution that rivals ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini with minimal cost, while running on an older laptop with no GPU and just 16GB of RAM? That was the question I set out to answer. My goal was twofold: create a powerful, private AI sandbox and breathe new life into aging […]
A Web Application Firewall (WAF) that sits in front of and protects your web assets from online threats. In this case, Teler-WAF is a free WAF that protects Caddy web server and the sites behind it against from OWASP Top 10 Threats, known vulnerabilities, botnet, malicious crawlers and other attacks. This tutorial will explain the […]
Blocking Enumeration Web Attacks Attackers frequently scan the open web for vulnerable targets using automated enumeration scripts. These scripts identify live IP addresses and then employ dictionary attacks against common routes to map potential attack surfaces. In this article, we will demonstrate a practical approach to mitigating these threats. We’ll leverage Fail2ban, a powerful application […]
Installing the latest version of MiniDLNA (ReadyMedia) Under Raspberry PI whether running Raspian Bookworm or DietPI Bookworm, the most recent version of minidlna available by the package manager is v1.3.0 released on Nov 24 2024. There have been some bug fixes since. The latest version at the time of writing this article v1.3.3 released on […]
Overview Monitoring website changes is a simple way to know when a new post is made. You can use it to track changes to product sites to see if a sale is on, or a support page to see if an app, driver, or firmware has been updated. Option 1: Online Services (Free / Paid) […]
I wanted a way to automate some of the basic actions I take when connecting my iPhone to the car. I always open Waze and always listen to YouTube music. Then I started looking online for what others have done, then customized it to my needs. Navigate Home This Shortcut will provide you a customized […]
No Public Key Error After upgrading the Raspberry Pi to Bookworm, I received the following errors as the apt tries to download updates from the debian bookworm source. pi@raspberrypi:~/tmp $ sudo apt update Get:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease [48.0 kB] Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease [151 kB] Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease [52.1 kB] Hit:4 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian bookworm InRelease […]
Gmail accounts have begun rejecting Emails without DMARC Gmail accounts have begun rejecting emails from hosts that do not have a DMARC authentication mechanism. It may just be the beginning, as other mail servers may follow suit. DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting & Conformance) shows that that mail server is allowed to send emails on […]