Paolo Tagliaferri - Software Architect

Online Privacy & Security - VPN

What is a Virtual Private Network? How does it work? Let's discuss a few VPN options for your regular browsing needs

Terraforming Ghost: Persistent Volume - PART 3

Automate Ghost blog with Terraform, Docker and Cloudflare. Part 3: Data persistence with Digitalocean Block Storage volumes.

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Wireguard VPN tunnel with Pfsense 2.5.0+

How to set up a Wireguard VPN Tunnel and securely connect to your home network from your mobile phone with the latest Pfsense release.

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Test Cloudflare Workers with Jest, Wrangler and Travis

Learn how to automate functional and integrated testing for your Cloudflare Worker using Jest, Wrangler and Travis.

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Terraforming Ghost: Secure origin connection - PART 2

Automate Ghost blog with Terraform, Docker and Cloudflare. Part 2: Set up end to end encryption and secure your origin.

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Terraforming a Ghost blog with Docker Compose and Cloudflare - PART 1

Learn how to set up a Ghost blog with Commento and serve it behind Cloudflare, all being automated using Terraform, Docker Compose and Digitalocean.

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Cloudflare Cache purge with Ghost webhook

Automate the purging of your Cloudflare cached content when your Ghost blog is updated, using Cloudflare Workers and webhooks.

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Data visualization with Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana on Synology

How to configure Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana on a Synology NAS using Docker to visualize home automation statistics.

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Make your Ghost blog super fast

Learn how to improve the speed, performance and Page Experience of your Ghost blog and achieve a fast user loading and navigation.

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Ghost blog automated theme deployment with Github Actions

Learn how to automate the deployment of changes and tweaks to your Ghost blog theme, using Github Actions.

Home Automation

Home Assistant, Google Assistant & Cloudflare

How to securely connect Home Assistant and Google Assistant using Cloudflare and Argo Tunnels for your smart home projects.

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Workout and exercise for geeks

Some tips and tricks for getting into a fitness workout - aimed at geeks and sedentary people that find it hard, like I did, to get started with exercises.

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An overview of SSL/TLS - TLS 1.3

Learn how Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.3) works and the key differences from TLS 1.2 (Part 2 of 2)

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A modern overview of SSL/TLS - TLS 1.2

Learn how Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.2) works and what are the key algorithms involved in its inner workings (Part 1 of 2)

Home Automation

Home Assistant and Telegram Notifications with a Chatbot

Learn how to wire up your Home Assistant installation with Telegram to easily get notifications and create a chatbot for interacting with your smart home (with examples).

Home Automation

Home Assistant data persistence and visualization with Grafana & InfluxDB

Learn how to send your Home Assistant sensor data to a dedicated time-series optimized database (InfluxDB) and a powerful visualisation tool (Grafana)

Home Automation

Zigbee sensor network with Home Assistant

How to set up a Zigbee sensor network in your home using Home Assistant, Synology Disk Station and a dresden elektronik Conbee II gateway

Home Automation

Run Home Assistant on Docker with Synology NAS

Find out how you can easily run Home Assistant on a Synology NAS, for connecting and creating automations for smart devices in your home and keep it within your four walls.

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Add self-hosted Commento commenting to your Ghost blog

Enhance the set up of your ghost blog by adding a powerful, opensource and privacy-focused commenting system: Commento

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Sleep and Focus

How to rebalance and refresh your energies and focus to take on new challenges. The importance of healthy sleep and deep work.

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Cloud Computing - learning and updating time management

It can be difficult to manage your time when learning and upskilling in Cloud Computing topics. Here are some tips that can help you in your own journey.

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Flutter Redux app and Amazon Cognito

How to get started around creating a Flutter mobile app including user authentication based on Amazon Cognito.

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Rapid cross-platform native app development with Flutter

Some quick thoughts about Flutter, the Google framework for rapid cross-platform mobile app development.

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AWS Certifications: Solutions Architect Associate & Cloud Practitioner

Find out about the AWS Certification program and some tips for achieving the Solutions Architect Associate and Cloud Practitioner certifications

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Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Cloudflare - PART 3

In Part 1 and Part 2 we have looked at setting up a Ghost blog on Digitalocean and also hardening the HTTPS setup via Cloudflare. In this step, we will look at how we can configure our deployment in a "repeatable" way by using Terraform.