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My Own URL Shortener for my Homelab

There's something satisfying about cleaning up the little things in a homelab. Not the big flashy projects. Not the migrations, the dashboards, or the reverse proxies that eat up your whole evening. I mean the smaller annoyances. The repeated copy-pasting of long internal URLs. The bookmarks that multiply for no good reason. The links you send yourself in Discord...

Installing Authentik and Putting My Homelab Services Behind It

I finally stopped treating authentication like a collection of exceptions and gave my homelab a proper front door. For a long time, my setup worked, but it was messy. Some apps were public, some were only reachable internally, some lived behind random reverse proxy rules, and a few had their own local logins...