The awesome garage

When I set out to revamp the monitoring of my infrastructure, and switch to Grafana Alloy for both the host systems and Docker containers running on them - I found myself frustrated by the lack of good tutorials for my use case. Most guides I found that resembled my use case, either focused on host...

When you self-host at home, a stable fiber connection usually gives you everything you need: fast speeds, sometimes a public IPv4 address and minimal latency. But when the fiber drops - whether because of an outage, provider work, or hardware failure - your uptime goes with it. So does your househol...

Do you find yourself manually transferring money every week for the kids' allowances? Or maybe you've promised yourself you'll save money for that vacation, but somehow it never happens? What if I told you that your Home Assistant setup could automatically handle your money management, making transf...

How an old idea, inspiration from old strategy games, and a toolbox full of AI helpers turned into my Viking strategy saga.

A Seed Planted Years Ago

Growing up glued to what I consider classics, like Kingdoms of England, Utopia, and the original Civilization, I fell hard for empire‑buildin...

Privacy-focused analytics tools like Plausible are becoming increasingly popular as companies and individuals prioritize data sovereignty and privacy. Plausible Analytics is a lightweight, open-source, privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics. Hosting it yourself ensures that your analytics...

Bruker du Ollama og har irritert deg over den tragisk dårlige norsken som kommer ut av en ellers fantastisk Llama 3.1 8b-modell? Visste du at det finnes språkmodeller som er trent på norsk ved UiO og med hjelp av Nasjonalbiblioteket? Det er enkelt å benytte disse modellene med Ollama, men det er...