Liviu Iancu

Web developer, former designer, and a curious geek at heart. On this blog i write about experiments, thoughts and my learning process. Tinkering with scripts, firewalls, home network, web apps, algorithms, design and more.

Running Proxmox and Dokploy for my home lab

Proxmox is my new virtualization platform of choice for running containerized workloads at home. After several detours through configuration rabbit holes, here鈥檚 what I learned setting up LXC containers for Dokploy and other services.

January 1, 2026 路 3 min 路 Liviu Iancu

馃捇 Convex Hosting on a Home Lab with Docker and Orbstack

Self-hosting modern application backends is often a puzzle of configuration, especially when working with newer architectures and tools. Convex, with its focus on full-stack development, offers a self-hosted option that鈥檚 perfect for a home lab environment.

November 20, 2025 路 3 min 路 Liviu Iancu

Comparing four ai generators generating a voting app

Using the same prompt on four ai app generators to see how they compare. Main goal is to generate a voting web app

October 11, 2025 路 5 min 路 Liviu Iancu

Home lab vs Cloud provider: My quest for affordable, practical DevOps Kubernetes experience

Reasons why I stopped using Azure and decided to use my home lab to build a portfolio and gain practical knowledge.

March 26, 2025 路 4 min 路 Liviu Iancu

Building My Own Firewall Router with OPNsense: A Journey in Home Network Security

Some practical benefits running OPNsense on your home network. It vastly improves safety for anyone at home using the internet.

January 23, 2025 路 3 min 路 Liviu Iancu