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PERSONAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL // POSTS ONLINE
Posts from the systems I build, the workflows I automate and the manual tasks I keep refusing to do twice.
ARCHIVE // RECENT POSTS
2026
Tailscale LXC: A Secure Route Back Home
How I use a lightweight Debian LXC container to connect securely to my home network from anywhere.
The Photo LXC: My Home Photo Cloud
How I created a personal photo cloud with Immich
The Docker LXC: The Workhorse of My Home Lab
How I use a dedicated Debian LXC container to run Docker workloads in my home lab.
My Home Lab: From a Raspberry Pi to a Mini PC
How a small Pi-hole project grew into my personal home lab infrastructure.
My Personal Cloudflare Control Panel
How I use a private Telegram bot to manage Cloudflare redirects and email blocks on the go.
I Gave My Bookmarks a Home
How I turned a subdomain into a personal link hub and a better way to manage bookmarks.
Stop Giving Away Your Personal Email
How I use Cloudflare Email Routing and a custom domain to protect my personal inbox.
Automating Recipe Extraction
Turning recipes from social media into structured Notion pages with an iOS Shortcut, OpenAI and the Notion API.
Zero-Click Desk Reservation
Automatically reserve an office desk with iOS Shortcuts, geofencing and Power Automate.
Outlook with Superpowers: The Self-Cleaning Trash
Use Power Automate and Microsoft Graph to automatically clean up Outlook's deleted items.
Smart Out of Office
Automatically schedule your Office 365 Out-of-Office reply from calendar events with Power Automate.
Refining the Agenda
Using Power Automate to adapt corporate calendar events to a more useful personal view.
06 - Drawing the Flyers
Generating and sorting thousands of consistent LatinHub flyer covers with Google Sheets, Canva and Python.
05 - Whatsapp Automation
Using iOS Shortcuts to automate LatinHub community messages and reminders on WhatsApp.
04 - The Automation Engine
How Make.com turns LatinHub's scheduled flyers into automated Instagram and Telegram posts.
03 - The Utilities for the Engine
The AWS S3, Telegram and Google Sheets utilities supporting LatinHub's automation engine.
02 - The Warehouse
Designing an automated Google Drive warehouse for LatinHub flyers.
01 - The Brain
Turning Google Sheets into the database and command center behind LatinHub's automation ecosystem.
00 - The LatinHub Project
How LatinHub became a fully autonomous, zero-cost infrastructure for Salsa and Bachata events across Italy.