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.
Blog chat based on RAG AI with local small LLM
This is my first attempt to build a chat bot that answers only based on found documents. In this case my blog posts.
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’s what I learned setting up LXC containers for Dokploy and other services.
💻 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’s perfect for a home lab environment.
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
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.
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.
Painting the command line: Coloring the terminal output to make more sense of data
Coloring the output of a command
Shared folder from iphone to linux laptop
Sharing notes between iphone (Obsidian app) - icloud folder - mac mini sync - network share - MX Linux (Obsidian app)
Push notifications from sensors using python automation
Practical, fun way to use Python to solve problems in home automation.
Firefox plugin - Hide YouTube recommendation sections
Small experiment to observe the effect of hiding recommendation sections and stop doom scrolling.