Making a Digital Clock; An Attempt at Integrating Hardware, Software and 3D Printing
Designing and building a 3D printed digital clock using off the shelf components.
read more →Hi, I'm Caius, and this is my side-projects blog. I mostly write about self-hosting, amateur radio, astrophotography, and whatever else interests me at the time.
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Backing up Persistent Volume Claims with k8up
Setting up k8up to periodically back up my Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs) in my Kubernetes cluster.
read more →Setting up a Homelab: Step 1
I am building a new cluster out of second hand-mini-PCs, and I am looking to streamline and simplify the setup as much as possible. Here, I'm exploring at how to get an OS set up, without having to do a manual install on each machine, using Ansible and Cloud-Init
read more →Why I Self Host
I have been running my own servers, on and off since college. Here's some of my takes, and why it's always been worth the hassle, at least for me.
read more →Self Hosted Postgres in Kubernetes with PITR Recovery
Using CloudNativePG and Barman Cloud to get Point-in-Time Recovery for Postgres DB's running in Kubernetes.
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