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Text-based tools I'm using on my FreeBSD laptop

December 11, 2024 — Nico Cartron

I'm now using i3 as Window Manager

November 25, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Reminders about supporting Open Source do work!

November 13, 2024 — Nico Cartron

The magic of open source - modifying my blog

December 26, 2023 — Nico Cartron

Report on my first FOSDEM!

February 07, 2023 — Nico Cartron

I finally attended FOSDEM, THE Open Source event in Europe - here's a quick recap

FreeBSD as a desktop environment on an Intel NUC

November 22, 2021 — Nico Cartron

Test of XCPC (Amstrad CPC emulator)

August 11, 2021 — Nico Cartron

Let's have a look at this nice CPC emulator - what it does and does not do, and how it compares to the other emulators I tested recently.

Contributing to Open Source without being a developer

July 06, 2021 — Nico Cartron

In this post, I'll discuss some of the ways anyone can help with his favorite Open Source project, even when not a developer.

Testing PowerDNS 4.5.0-beta1's "Zone cache"

June 17, 2021 — Nico Cartron

Domoticz API: don't forget user's permissions!

March 30, 2021 — Nico Cartron

InfluxDB and Raspberry Pi - frenemies?

June 21, 2020 — Nico Cartron

A quick look at why I moved my InfluxDB data away from one of my Raspberry Pi.

Domoticz and OPNsense (or the other way around)

May 02, 2020 — Nico Cartron

Grafana and Pi-Hole

May 02, 2020 — Nico Cartron

Even though I'm a DNS geek/enthusiast given my past, I love Pi-Hole and use it at home on a Raspberry.
This allows me to block ads in a simple and effective manner.
(Of course it then forwards requests to a PowerDNS Recursor for several reasons).

I wanted to have a nice Grafana dashboard with info coming from Pi-Hole, so here's a quick post as I wasted quite some time because of a simple issue.


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