A Domain-Addressable Home PaaS
December 2024 10 min read
Turn a Raspberry Pi into your own personal cloud server accessible from anywhere on the internet. This guide shows you how to set up a fully functional platform for running your own services using your own domain name, with automatic security and minimal complexity. It's a practical, hands-on project that proves you don't need cloud subscriptions to host your own software, just open-source tools, a small device, and straightforward setup steps.
Alpine Linux Installation on Raspberry Pi
February 2024 15 min read
This guide walks through installing Alpine Linux on a Raspberry Pi 4, from image flashing through to a secure, containerized system ready for workloads. It covers the five-stage installation workflow, addressing ARM-specific bootloader configuration that often breaks systems upgraded from older Alpine versions. The result is a minimal base system with Docker, SSH hardening, firewall rules, and static networking configured.
Arch Linux Installation from Scratch
May 2023 11 min read
This guide provides a comprehensive walkthrough for installing Arch Linux from a live disk, configuring GRUB as the bootloader, and selecting the recommended filesystem. Beginning with booting from the live disk, users are guided through partitioning, mounting, and installing the base system. Configuration steps cover timezone, localization, network settings, and the installation of GRUB.