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Remi Mikalsen
@remimikalsen.com
💻 Tech enthusiast | 🏡 Smart home advocate | ⚙️ Home lab tinkerer | 🚀 Exploring the future of technology and innovation | Sharing ideas, building solutions, and simplifying the complex 🔧

theawesomegarage.com | github.com/remimikalsen | remim.com
Does your fiber connection ever let you down? My homelab got let down lately, but now fails over to 5G LTE - even behind CGNAT - using WireGuard + Traefik + a tiny VPS. No Cloudflare or Tailscale for me.

Full write-up 👇
theawesomegarage.com/blog/self-ho...

#homelab #failover #lte #cgnat #wireguard
Self-hosting with 5G LTE failover behind CGNAT
When you self-host at home, a stable fiber connection usually gives you everything you need: fast speeds, sometimes a public IPv4 address and minimal...
theawesomegarage.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The Viking Dominion strategy guide is out: viking-dominion.app/strategy-guide

Play the Lofoten archipelago or Europe 900 AD.

It's free, privacy friendly and fun! Tell me what you think!

#GameDev #IndieGame #StrategyGame #Vikings
Viking Dominion: A strategy guide
The ultimate strategy guide to Viking Dominion. Learn how to play, the different strategies and the different paths to victory.
viking-dominion.app
July 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
⚔️ Viking Dominion is live! 🛡️
A free-to-play, privacy-first online Viking strategy game: build, battle, ally, betray — and fight for dominion. 🌍
Dynamic maps, no two games alike. Play solo or against friends & rivals.

Start your saga 👉 viking-dominion.app
#GameDev #IndieGame #StrategyGame #Vikings
Home - Viking Dominion
Welcome to Viking Dominion, a browser-based strategy game where you lead your Viking tribe to glory. Manage resources, build your army, and expand your territory.
viking-dominion.app
June 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
🔐 Why send your user insights to Google when you can self-host an open-source, privacy-friendly alternative?

I’ve written a guide on running Plausible locally 👉 theawesomegarage.com/blog/privacy...

💡 Own your data. Try it yourself!

#PrivacyFirst #Analytics #Plausible #DataSovereignty #SelfHosting
Privacy-first analytics: How to run Plausible locally with Docker
Plausible is a lightweight, open-source, privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics. This guide provides a minimal example of how to set up Plausible using Docker Compose and Traefik.
theawesomegarage.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
🚀 Run local AI image processing in Home Assistant with Ollama Vision 🏡🔍

Analyze images from your security cameras without sending any data to the cloud! I made an integration and wrote about it here: theawesomegarage.com/blog/ollama-...

#HomeAssistant #AI #EdgeAI #Ollama #SmartHome #ComputerVision
Ollama Vision - Local AI image processing in Home Assistant
Do you want an AI to analyze images from your security cameras, and never send any data outside your home? This is easy with Home Assistant! I'll show...
theawesomegarage.com
March 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
🚀 I made a space shooter with my kids! Play it here: kasumi.me/spill/space-adventure 🎮

Blast asteroids while trying to survive as long as possible. The asteroids keep coming faster, and you have limited ammo. Every shot counts! Can you beat the high score? 🔥

#gamedev #gaming #learning
Kasumi.me
Websiden til Kaja og Sunniva. Her kan du spille spillene våre!
kasumi.me
March 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I needed a simple file sharing solution to share files from my windows desktop to locked down Linux servers. So I made SnapFile.me. It's open source, self-hosted, comes with dark mode, has one-time links, it's curl-friendly and more. Try it out!
#filetransfer #opensource #selfhosting #sysadmin
SnapFile.me
Simple and secure file sharing
snapfile.me
February 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Ever felt your org is drowning in projects but struggling to focus? 🤯

I built Skillia.app to help teams align OKRs, prioritize projects, and map out key skills needed - so you can focus on what actually moves the needle.

Try the demo 👉 skillia.app

🚀 #OKR #skills #projects #portfolio #management
Skillia
Skillia helps organizations prioritize tasks, projects, and skills by aligning them with strategic goals using Objectives and Key Results (OKR).
skillia.app
February 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Just published a guide on running a local CI/CD pipeline with self-hosted GitHub Actions and Docker! Learn how to auto-build & deploy your images using webhooks + semantic versioning, all behind Traefik.

theawesomegarage.com/blog/build-a...

#DevOps #Docker #GitHubActions #SelfHosted #CI/CD
Build and deploy locally using GitHub Actions and Webhooks
Are you tired of manually deploying new versions of your website or docker image after completing a new feature or fixing a bug? Wouldn't it be great...
theawesomegarage.com
February 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Have you ever needed to send a password or other sensitive information to a colleague, friend, or client - and ended up pasting it into a chat message or email? It happens far too often! That’s why I created CredShare.app; to have a dead simple alternative that is safer than the common practice.
CredShare.app - Secure password sharing
Share passwords and other secrets securely with CredShare.app. Your secrets are encrypted and can only be unlocked with the key you provide.
CredShare.app
February 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM