Raspberry Pi

Hardware projects, home automation, tiny computers doing big things.

Do Security Headers Even Work Through a Cloudflare Tunnel? (Yes — Here's How I Checked)

My nginx never talks to the internet directly — Cloudflare and a tunnel sit in between. Do headers like HSTS actually survive that trip? I checked instead of assuming.

I Audited My Own Site's Technical SEO and Found a Bug That's Been Live the Whole Time

I audit clients' sites for technical SEO all the time and never once pointed the same tools at my own. Four minutes in, I found a duplicate- content bug that had been live since launch.

You Don't Need Uptime Kuma for One Site

Every self-hosting thread points at Uptime Kuma. For monitoring exactly one site with exactly one notification channel I actually check, a systemd timer and ntfy turned out to be the whole stack.

Zero Open Ports — Deploying This Site Through a Pi and a Cloudflare Tunnel

How My Nerdy Life actually gets from a git push to your browser: GitHub Actions, a Raspberry Pi, and a Cloudflare Tunnel that means the Pi never opens a single port to the internet. Including the part where I forgot which machine I was even talking to.