100DaysToOffload
Managing secrets with SOPS in your homelab
Sealed Secrets, Ansible Vault, 1Password or SOPS - there are multiple ways how and where to store your secrets. I went with SOPS and age with my ArgoCD GitOps environment.
My TrueNAS custom NAS build (2025)
Since years I have an off-the-shelf NAS and always wanted to build my own. I wanted somthing I control myself, I am independent from any vendor support, something I can modify to my needs. So I build a rather old-skool NAS 6 months ago.
Codeberg builds on Woodpecker CI in K8s
I moved all my repositories to Codeberg and I am very happy with it. While CI/CD and heavy build jobs cannot be lifted by Codeberg for all repositories hosted, the way to go is to outsource jobs into your own CI engine and onto your own hardware.
Random wallpaper with swaybg
Setting a wallpaper in Sway, with swaybg, is easy. Unfortunately there is no way of setting a random wallpaper automatically out of the box. Here is a little helper script to do that.
Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server
Since a years we know, or might suspect, our chats are listend on, our uploaded files are sold for advertising or what purpose ever and the chance our social messengers leak our private data is incredibly high. It is about time to work against this.
Proton Authenticator: Don't you want diversification?
When Proton released its new authenticator in July 2025 I had mixed feelings about that. A new authenticator app although there is a bunch of viable, secure and privacy-respecting as well as well-maintained alternatives. When did you as an ordinary user trusted all your secrets, mail, vpn, password, 2FA and so on, to one company and what happened next?
Hugo with Codeberg and BunnyCDN
While enshittification is rolling across a lot of US-based services, let’s try to host our static Hugo page with EU-based services only. Domain, deployment, CDN: we’re going back to the roots - or into a more modern tech-era for European internet services.
Moving away from Authy
One year ago Authys desktop app was shut down. Their mobile app still works, but is literally a dead train. It was about time to move to some alternative - and there are not plenty.