category: Self-Hosting

I got tired of manually sending Cloudflare traffic through a VPN whenever LaLiga blocks shared IP addresses during a match. So I taught my MikroTik to do it for me.

How I forward SMS to Telegram using a dedicated Android phone.

Hi there! Recently, I’ve deployed microbin, minimalistic opensource “pastebin”-like service, into my homelab to share temporal files/text between devices. It works quite well. A few days ago, I started wondering: could I upload files or paste text into Microbin directly from the iOS Share menu? The short answer is yes. It could be done using iOS’s builtin “Shortcuts”. ...

Step-by-step guide to setting up remote LAN access using WireGuard on a MikroTik hEX S router and a cloud VM. Covers RouterOS CLI, firewall rules, routing, and client configuration.

How to securely store and use secrets (passwords, tokens, API keys) in MikroTik RouterOS scripts without hardcoding them in plain text.