A practical walkthrough of using Ansible to back up and restore NUT configs for Raspberry Pi UPS monitoring, then running the same automation via Ansible Semaphore.

Why I Needed a “Backup VPN” for My Homelab

Like many homelab users, my primary remote-access solution has long been WireGuard. It’s fast, elegant, and simple.
However, WireGuard has one structural weakness:

It relies on UDP.

In practice, this becomes a real problem on:

• Public Wi‑Fi (cafés, airports, hotels) …

As a long-time VSCode user, I recently decided to give the Antigravity IDE (AGV) a try. It's always interesting to see new tools in the developer space, especially ones that promise to enhance the coding workflow.

My first task was giving this repo a proper README.md. I simply asked AGV to "write a README for this …

Setting up Actual Budget was easy. Now, let's make achieving your financial goals even easier!

This video will guide you through simple yet effective strategies to budget, save, and invest, all within the user-friendly Actual Budget interface.

Chapters:

00:31 Overview

00:40 Setting up accounts

02:18 Setting up …

This video is for who wants to try out actual budget for the first time.

We are going over different installation methods of Actual Budget.

Users can install Actual Budget using their preferred method and start envelope budgeting using Actual Budget.