Posts tagged with "homelab"


  • Jul 28, 2026

    Cloudflare Tunnel For Comments

    A while ago I migrated from Wordpress to static web hosting using Jekyll. Obviously, there is one problem, which is that I can no longer have comments (static website remember). So I need a comments engine that runs on a server somewhere which stores all the user comments and then have a frontend JS code that fetches the comments for the blog post. After experimenting with a few of them (Disqus, Remark42, etc), I eventually went with Commento, running on a small Google Compute Engine (GCE) instance. But some problems that I did not sign up for started showing up soon after.

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  • Jan 1, 2026

    Eight Years In Financial Independence

    Happy new year 2026 everyone. It is now more than 8 years since we became financially independent! Can’t believe how time flies. At the end of December 2017, I was super excited that we are finally reaching our goal of financial independence according to my calculations at that time. Now it is already 8 years past that milestone. These last few years have been as liberating and peaceful as I had hoped for.

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  • Aug 26, 2025

    Homelab Is Ready

    I’ve been quite busy setting up my homelab for the past few months and did not get any time to update the blog. Thought I’d do a quick post on my setup if it interests anyone. I will not go into too much detail. If you need more information, let me know in the comments and I might expand on it a bit in a future post. Let’s begin with a screenshot of the containers I am running.

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  • Jun 29, 2025

    Seven Years In Retirement

    Well, well, well. what do you know? It’s already been 7 years since I retired early exactly on this day in 2018. There isn’t much to write about since nothing much has changed since what I wrote last year when I completed 6 years in retirement.

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