navidrome

Streaming My Own Music – Navidrome, Docker and Taking Back Control

This post is a technical follow‑up to my previous reflection about music ownership.

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Stephane Thirion

21 Jan 2026 · 3 min read

navidrome

Owning Music Again in a Streaming World

This weekend, while organizing my CD collection, I had a small but uncomfortable realization.

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Stephane Thirion

20 Jan 2026 · 2 min read

authentik

Deploying Authentik SSO with Azure SMTP and HAProxy: A Complete Guide

Setting up a robust Single Sign-On (SSO) solution is essential for modern infrastructure management. In this guide, I'll walk you through deploying Authentik with high availability using Docker Swarm, configuring email notifications, and integrating everything with HAProxy as a reverse proxy.

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Stephane Thirion

11 Jan 2026 · 7 min read

HAProxy

Securing Internal Services: Using HAProxy ACLs and AdGuard Home DNS Rewrites

Learn how to restrict sensitive services like monitoring dashboards and admin panels to your internal network using HAProxy access control lists combined with AdGuard Home DNS rewrites giving your users friendly domain names without exposing services to the internet.

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Stephane Thirion

7 Jan 2026 · 4 min read

HomeAssistant

Making my NICE SNA20 Garage Door Smart with Home Assistant and ESPHome

Integrating a NICE SNA20 garage door opener with Home Assistant using a Wemos D1 Mini and ESPHome, automation here we go.

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Stephane Thirion

4 Jan 2026 · 7 min read

HAProxy

Smart HAProxy Role Detection: Know Your Server's Status Instantly

Update (December 2025): The original script had a critical flaw in VIP detection that could cause both servers to incorrectly identify as PRIMARY. This has been corrected with a more

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Stephane Thirion

23 Dec 2025 · 10 min read

BusyLight

Making the Busy Light Smarter: Microsoft Teams Integration

Remember the busy light I built with an ESP8266 and Home Assistant? The one that helps my 3-year-old understand when daddy is available? Well, it's gotten a lot smarter since then.

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Stephane Thirion

12 Dec 2025 · 4 min read

HomeAssistant

Home Assistant + HAProxy: Fixing Add-on Access Blocked by X-Frame-Options

Article written following real debugging on production infrastructure. Configuration tested with HAProxy 2.8.15 and Home Assistant 2024.12 since I had this issue for some times.

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Stephane Thirion

10 Dec 2025 · 4 min read

license

Stop Losing RDS Per-User CALs to Case Sensitivity: The Real Fix with msTS* LDAP Rights

Fix RDS CAL duplicates by delegating msTS* write rights to AD and enforcing lowercase usernames at NetScaler Gateway as a bonus.

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Stephane Thirion

15 Oct 2025 · 4 min read

Parallels

Why Parallels RAS Wouldn't Work on Port 443 with my other services

The SNI Routing Trap....

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Stephane Thirion

6 Oct 2025 · 4 min read

Artificial Intelligence

Advanced Diabetes Monitoring System: Bridging Technology and Healthcare with AI-Powered Analysis

A comprehensive technical exploration of building an automated weekly diabetes monitoring system using AI-powered analysis, weather correlation and medical insights for better Type 1 diabetes management.

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Stephane Thirion

8 Sep 2025 · 14 min read

truenas

Diagnosing and Fixing TrueNAS Performance Issues: A Complete Case Study (homelab)

A TrueNAS system with sluggish file access was bottlenecked by Samsung 870 QVO drives consumer QLC NAND drives that collapse to 80 MB/s under sustained load in RAIDZ1 configurations.

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Stephane Thirion

3 Sep 2025 · 4 min read

HAProxy

Comprehensive HAProxy High Availability Monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus

Complete HAProxy HA monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana. Custom dashboard with eight panels covering instance health, throughput and error rates. Includes automated alerts for critical failures.

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Stephane Thirion

1 Sep 2025 · 5 min read

HAProxy

Implementing HAProxy High Availability: A Complete Migration Guide

Migrating from a single HAProxy instance to high availability using keepalived and VRRP. This guide covers implementing automatic failover with Virtual IP management, SSL certificate synchronization and zero-downtime service continuity.

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Stephane Thirion

30 Aug 2025 · 6 min read

NetScaler

Migrating from Citrix NetScaler to HAProxy: A Complete Guide

Migrating from Citrix NetScaler to HAProxy removed the 20 Mb/s freemium bottleneck and replaced dead SDX hardware with a modern, open-source load balancer. This guide covers content switching, tricky apps like Home Assistant and Outline, and the key features you can and cannot migrate.

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Stephane Thirion

29 Aug 2025 · 6 min read

Business Strategy

Why AI Projects (might) Keep Failing ?

Despite massive investment, most AI projects never reach production. Here’s why and how to finally close the gap between ambition and real-world impact.

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Stephane Thirion

27 Aug 2025 · 3 min read

DNS

Building Enterprise-Grade DNS Infrastructure with Docker Swarm, AdGuard Home and Unbound

Built a DNS infrastructure with Docker Swarm, AdGuard Home and Unbound delivering 1ms response times, comprehensive ad blocking and complete privacy while maintaining Active Directory compatibility.

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Stephane Thirion

26 Aug 2025 · 7 min read

AI Networking

Building a Network Expert (& Netscaler) LLM with LLaMA 3.2

Fine-tuning open-source AI models for deep domain expertise in enterprise networking

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Stephane Thirion

29 Jul 2025 · 5 min read