Bloguidien – May 2025

Guy Evans published on 2025-06-05

Bloguidien is a website created by two French bloggers, where a new writing prompt is posted every day. It’s designed to be a daily writing challenge. Here are my pics for May 2025

Crowdsec Blocklists and Mikrotik Firewall

Guy Evans published on 2025-04-24

One question you always get when selfhosting is:

How do you secure your public facing services ? The answer usually is in layers. One layer I use is the firewall on my Mikrotik router that sits in front of all my selfhosted services. Another layer I use is Crowdsec which is an IDS/IPS that you can selfhost.

Hugo, Caddy and Github actions to publish my website

Guy Evans published on 2024-10-11

I’ve always had some form of presence on the internet from a young age, I remember registering my own domain name aged 13 and building my first website with Microsoft Frontpage and then later on with Adobe Dreamweaver. I later moved on to starting a career in IT and designing websites some websites with Wordpress.. Let’s take a look at what I use to publish this website today.

Daikin AC, Home Assistant and Local control

Guy Evans published on 2024-10-09

When we bought our apartment, the previous owners had installed a Daikin minisplit AC in the living room. Great, another thing to ‘smartify’ with Home Assistant. But Daikin’s Wifi modules are way to expensive and cloud dependent.

The road to 10 Gbps internet - Mikrotik CHR Strangeness

Guy Evans published on 2024-05-06

How it started

My server¹ that lives in Milywan’s Croissy-Beaubourg/CBO location actually has a 10G NIC, as it was one of my requirements when setting it up. Something I have never really used its full potential.

Today that changed (sort of).

Milkywan has a group chat on telegram where we talk about tech and other things between members. One of the guys there was looking for someone with a Mikrotik router “on-net” to run some bandwidth tests.

Onebag for Travel - Whats in my 2023/2024 travel bag

Guy Evans published on 2024-03-02

Too many bags

I am a fan of travelling, although I haven’t been able to travel much since the birth of the little one but I digress.

Back to Onebag travel: Many of us have dealt with the hassle of managing multiple, often large bags while travelling. How often have you arrived at a destination before being able to check in to your accommodation? In such cases, I usually start exploring the destination, but the challenge is dealing with large bags. Ideally, you can either A) leave your bags at your accommodation, B) find a bag storage location, or C) wait until you can check in.

What Apps I use in 2023

Guy Evans published on 2023-11-27

Do you use a lot of different apps during your day? So do I and I thought I would share some of my favourites for 2023.

802.1x Port Authentication with ARUBA switches

Guy Evans published on 2023-07-13

Imagine a situation where you have a public meeting room equipped with accessible Ethernet ports, and you want to ensure secure access to those ports. One of the options is 802.1X Port Authentication - Lets take a look at the configuration on the switch side

A look at Caddy - A simple and fast web server

Guy Evans published on 2023-04-23

We’ve all used Apache and NGNIX when we have had to host a website and they are fin but let’s be honest, I’ve never gotten along with their config. And that is what bought me to Caddy. Lets take a look at what Caddy has to offer.

Backups with Restic

Guy Evans published on 2023-03-28

After lucking out and not loosing any of my data saved to my nextcloud after the OVH fire. I started searching for a decent backup solution and found Restic, lets take a look at how it works.