Helps in creating and sharing secrets easily.

Uses AWS and GCE stuff for encryption but can also function without all that and just use GPG or age for encrypting.

Can be used to encrypt specific files in a git repo, or even encrypt/decrypt parts of a file (for example a specific value in a yml or json file).

Very neat and seems really useful!

An SMTP gateway for Apprise notifications - works in tandem with Apprise so that now your applications do not even have to know about apprise in any way.

Simply point them to the mailrise gateway and send an email (which is often natively supported, especially by legacy apps). Mailrise receives it, translates it into something apprise understands and forwards it to Apprise which then does its usual thing and puts it into one of the dozens of programs it supports. Neat!

Distributed (and specifically self-hosting/home-labbing oriented) platform which creates your own S3-compatible storage.

Essentially, host your own S3 platform just like MinIO, except that it's distributed across multiple nodes by default.

These nodes don't have to be super powerful (they mention 1GB RAM, 16GB space minimums) and can be fairly far apart - so they could be in your home, in a datacenter, at your mother's garage.

Bridging the SATA and SAS connectors of hard drives (DIY)

A very nice HDD system build/test/burn-in guide, showing how to S.M.A.R.T. test and bad sector test your hard drives before first use.

Vital if you want long-living NAS drives etc.

Built on intel socket 1155 (a mainboard staple for a long time) this details all the components necessary for a stable and durable DIY NAS in a normal tower enclosure (or a rack or a small form factor or a...).

Super in-depth, lots of alternatives and even contains well thought out searches for ebay already as well. Amazing!

An in-depth explanation of what to expect and do when you buy into Western Digital Easystores (and presumably similar WD Elements etc hard drives).

Contains shucking advice contains 3.3V fix advice for internal SATA connections.

Setting up a (MacOS) backup solution with proxmox, zfs, omv. I probably don't need apple interoperation, but the zfs pool, sharing and backup process is a nice read.

If you want to have a home server with the possibility to run virtual machines but you also need simple local file sharing then the combination of Proxmox and openmediavault could be right for you. In this post (and the accompanying video) we’ll go through the installation of openmediavault on top of Proxmox. I will also show you how to configure a Samba share.

An introduction, almost like a check-list from the very basics with links to more advanced reading, to get Proxmox and ZFS set up together.

Extended media server / home server setup for ARM devices, but the setup configuration can presumably also be mostly applied to X86 devices.

A Raspberry Pi WiFi Extender is a cheap and power efficient way of increasing the total range of your WiFi Network by just using two Wi-Fi adaptors.

A versatile and extensible platform for home and life automation with hundreds of supported integrations - GitHub - BlackLight/platypush: A versatile and extensible platform for home and life automation with hundreds of supported integrations

Seems really interesting, like a lighter-weight, more programmatic alternative to e.g. HASSio.
Has a lot of plugins and connections and the blog is very inspiring.

Using caddy to run nextcloud as a host and reverse proxy with rewriting and so on

Building arm and arm64 versions of docker images with docker hub autobuilder, by using qemu emulation for the different arches

Using nginx to limit the open endpoints

Ready-made stack with installation scripts, making use of docker to install a fully working and nicely integrated stack of containers on your Pi.

Adds additional niceties (like turning off swap, writing logs to memory) that improve Pi performance (and life-time of SD cards) - most of which can be adapted reading through the source.

Especially interesting for things like NodeRED which are not just interesting for IOT.

NEW Stack migrated here: https://github.com/SensorsIot/IOTstack

Community-gathered blocklist for YouTube ad domains, suitable for pihole on e.g. raspberry pi

Nextcloud is a fantastic system, but it's not your backup. This post will show you how to backup Nextcloud so you can ensure your data is safe.

Backing up locally.

A dashboard for homelabs. More focused on providing individual services in tabs than just having links to them.

Apparently works well with Authentik SSO authentication.