Infrastructure

06 Mar 2021

Using local DNS in dhcpcd causes to ignore others DNS

I struggled with the strange behavior of dhcpcd on my Raspberry Pi powered by Raspbian. The RPi does many things on my local network, including ad-blocking thanks to the pihole service. I run pihole1 as a docker …

02 Apr 2020

How to boot system from USB using GRUB

Almost every modern computer has a dedicated menu to choose from which device the system should boot. If not, there is an option in BIOS/UEFI to change that. But what if both options failed for some reason?

18 Sep 2019

The hidden cost of self-hosted services

The Internet is teeming with services you can take advantage of. You can store your files in the cloud, share movies, organize photo collections, talk with friends, manage your projects and so on. It also means that your …

08 Oct 2018

Set up multi-container environment using Docker Compose

I remember this time when I discovered Vagrant. The magic behind this tool and the general idea of scaffolding the whole environment using single command was pretty genius. Moreover, I had programmed on Windows and …