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Quick guide to set up Zsh and Oh-My-Zsh with essential plugins and a theme
Updated March 5, 2025 3 min read
I've been getting more and more comfortable working on the command line in Linux, and looked into ways to pretty it up and make it more user friendly. Enter Zsh, an alternative to Bash shell, and the Oh-My-Zsh framework used to customize the terminal experience to your heart's content. Here's my basic set up.
Setup auto-updates in Debian and Ubuntu with Unattended-Upgrades and NeedRestart
Updated March 3, 2025 3 min read
If you want your Linux machine to stay up-to-date on important security updates, but you don't want to SSH into it all the time to run updates and would rather set it and forget it, this is the way.
Bootstrapping a fresh Linux install with Ansible
Updated March 3, 2025 5 min read
Ansible is an IT tool that enables Infrastructure as Code, letting you automate provisioning, configuration, management and deployment of services and applications. I like using it at a fraction of it's full power to bootstrap fresh installs of Linux for my homelab.
Using a forwarding resolver in Pi-Hole for DNS over TLS (Upgrade Pi-Hole v6)
Updated March 2, 2025 4 min read
A quick guide on configuring Pi-Hole to use either Cloudflared or Unbound as forwarding resolver to Quad9, for encrypted queries using DNS over TLS.
Using DNS over HTTPS with Pi-Hole and Cloudflared (Updated for Pi-Hole v6)
Updated March 2, 2025 7 min read
When using Pi-Hole as a network-wide ad blocker, your DNS requests still go out in plain text and can be seen by your ISP. DNS over HTTPS encrypts DNS requests between your Pi-Hole and the upstream DNS resolver. Here is a quick guide on how to set that up with Cloudflared daemon.

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