Ricardo Franco Cantero·6d agoEvery device I own keeps a diary. So I built the place where I finally get to read them.A syslog server with a live web UI, alert rules, and Pushover notifications. Flask, SQLite, one container, one long Thursday. Full source…
Ricardo Franco Cantero·Jul 3Proton Drive kept throttling my backups. So I built the Linux client Proton hasn’t shipped yet.A read-only gateway on Proton’s official SDK that makes restic believe 45 GB of end-to-end encrypted cloud storage is a local folder. No…
Ricardo Franco Cantero·Jun 26I built a crypto bot to remove myself from the equation. Then I showed up at 09:47.
Ricardo Franco Cantero·Jun 2244 Containers and a €16 Server: The stack that actually runs my lifeWhat started as a backup container turned into a small automated city. This is the real breakdown; every container, what it does at the…
Ricardo Franco Cantero·Jun 19My surveillance cameras can see everything. They just have no idea what they’re looking at.My NAS has been recording motion events since 2023. Cats, shadows, a plastic bag that apparently needed somewhere to be, and occasionally…
Ricardo Franco Cantero·Jun 5Three humidity sensors, one bedroom, three different answers. So which one is lying?I bought a “smart” hygrometer, didn’t trust it, and ended up building an entire self-hosted monitoring stack to find out the truth. Here’s…
Ricardo Franco Cantero·Jun 2After building my own notes app, I went back to Evernote. Then I built it again.Not long ago I wrote about building my own notes app. It worked. People seemed to like it. I had hashtags, due dates, an auto-logout…A response icon7A response icon7
Ricardo Franco Cantero·May 15UPDATED: When the cloud locks you out! Building a 4–3–2 backup setup with CryptomatorIt happens more often than you think. One morning you wake up, try to log in to your Google account, and there is nothing. No email, no…A response icon4A response icon4
Ricardo Franco Cantero·May 3Self-hosting your e-book library with Kavita on Alpine LinuxI’ve been meaning to get my e-book collection off Dropbox and onto something I actually control for a while now. After going down a rabbit…
Ricardo Franco Cantero·Apr 21I ditched ChatGPT Plus and built my own AI setup for less money, personalised and private.I replaced ChatGPT Plus ($20/month) with my own private AI setup for about $8/month.
