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I've moved away from @traefik.bsky.social and now use @caddy.bsky.social as my reverse proxy of choice. Writeup here: mattdyson.org/blog/2025/12...
Using Caddy with Docker Proxy and Cloudflare Tunnels
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December 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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After a lot of blood, sweat and swearing, I now have an #nvidia GPU passed through into a @proxmox.bsky.social VM and accessible by my #docker #swarm nodes!

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Passing an Nvidia GPU through Proxmox to Docker Swarm for Plex
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November 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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I've migrated my #Hugo blog to automatically build and deploy using @github.com actions.

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Automatic Hugo Deployment with GitHub Actions
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April 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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The internet is a dodgy place... how I've secured my #Traefik setup with #Crowdsec:

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Securing Traefik with Crowdsec
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March 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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I've taken the plunge and automated minor updates to my Docker containers through Renovate - writeup here:

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Automatic Docker Container Updates with Renovate
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February 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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New blog post: Highly Available DNS Ad-blocking with Blocky

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Highly Available DNS Ad-blocking with Blocky
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December 18, 2024 at 5:08 PM
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I think I'm done spamming old projects... for now!

@bsky.app comment threads should be available on my site very shortly: mattdyson.org
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December 1, 2024 at 10:16 AM
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Controlling your Tesla from Google Home

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TeslaVoice
For a long time I’ve been gradually adding more and more devices into my ‘smart home’ setup, including my Tesla Model S.
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December 1, 2024 at 10:14 AM
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Add downloads to rTorrent directly from your browser

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TorrentLoad
For quite a long time, I’ve used rTorrent to download torrents on a server running in a cupboard, which works with a beautiful simplicity unmatched by a lot of torrent clients, and also has the advant...
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December 1, 2024 at 10:13 AM
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Controlling a USB robotic arm

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Robot Arm
A couple of years ago I was given a Robotic Arm for Christmas, and more recently discovered that you can get a USB control board to allow you to hook it up to any computer.
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December 1, 2024 at 10:12 AM
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Making my appliances less dumb with (yet another) @raspberrypi.com

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Raspberry Shake
Ever got yourself so absorbed in an evenings TV binge that you’ve accidentally forgotten about a load of washing, and left it to fester in the machine overnight?
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December 1, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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Creating a smart alarm clock using @raspberrypi.com

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AlarmPi
The AlarmPi is a Raspberry Pi powered smart alarm clock, which I designed and created after getting thoroughly fed up of how inflexible and un-user-friendly most alarm clocks on the market are (you ca...
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December 1, 2024 at 10:09 AM
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Making a ADSB flight tracker using @raspberrypi.com

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FlightPi
As an Air Traffic Controller, people often point at planes in the sky and ask me what it is and where it’s going - most of the time I make up some complete nonsense, saying it convincingly enough that...
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December 1, 2024 at 10:08 AM
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Using Traefik with Cloudflare Tunnels

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Using Traefik with Cloudflare Tunnels
Introduction #Over the last 18 months or so, I’ve been gradually moving all of my services across to Docker Containers, with the aim of making ongoing maintenance a lot easier.
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December 1, 2024 at 10:06 AM
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How I keep my Docker containers up-to-date using Renovate

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Keeping my Homelab Docker containers up-to-date with Renovate
Introduction #As part of the ongoing project to make my Homelab more easily maintainable, I stumbled across Renovate by Mend.
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December 1, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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I've spent the afternoon integrating @bsky.app comments on my Hugo blog:
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November 30, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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A few thoughts on the setup process for my self-hosted @bsky.app PDS: mattdyson.org/blog/2024/11...
Self-hosting Bluesky PDS
Introduction #There seems to be an ongoing mass-migration away from Twitter/X at the moment, with Bluesky being a popular alternative.
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November 23, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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Hello Bluesky!

After a few hours of desk-banging and swearing, I seem to be in existence as @mattdyson.org running off my own self-hosted PDS instance!
November 20, 2024 at 9:41 PM