Stephane Thirion

EUC Tech Denmark

Event Recap – EUC Tech Denmark 2025 in Billund 🇩🇰

For EUC practitioners, architects, and leaders, the call to action is unmistakable: adapt now. Whether it’s embracing cloud-first models, reinforcing security, or designing for hybrid realities, the time to evolve is now — because the next era of EUC won’t wait.

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Stephane Thirion

26 May 2025 · 7 min read

Citrix

Event : Citrix Connect Paris 2025 🇫🇷

After a bit of back-and-forth (including a rejected registration), I was finally able to attend Citrix Connect Paris 2025, thanks to a nudge from some folks inside Citrix....

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Stephane Thirion

14 May 2025 · 3 min read

music

Revisiting Slaughter of the Soul: At the Gates Melodic Death Metal Masterpiece

A bit of music, because i want to

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Stephane Thirion

31 Mar 2025 · 3 min read

ESP32

Ionizing Radiation Geiger counter - Home Assistant

Following my previous experiments using ESP32 Wroom, such as the water-level monitoring project for...

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Stephane Thirion

30 Mar 2025 · 3 min read

Proxmox

Proxmox Backup Headaches: The Case of the Phantom Disk

I recently ran into a frustrating issue with my Proxmox backups.

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Stephane Thirion

28 Mar 2025 · 2 min read

Homelab

Homelab serie -- The software 3/3

SamanthAI my artificial intelligence learning lab, all about LLMs and personnal assistant

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Stephane Thirion

24 Mar 2025 · 3 min read

Homelab

Homelab serie -- The software 2/3

Docker Swarm & Containers

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Stephane Thirion

17 Mar 2025 · 4 min read

Homelab

Homelab serie -- The software 1/3

Dropping everything in a single blog post is difficult so I chose to split it in three parts

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Stephane Thirion

17 Mar 2025 · 4 min read

Homelab

Homelab serie -- The hardware

For as long as I can remember, I've had a homelab. Honestly, it’s been so many years now that I can hardly recall exactly when or how it all began

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Stephane Thirion

15 Mar 2025 · 7 min read

NAS

DIY NAS 2025 (homelab) 2/2

When configuring my NAS system, I selected TrueNas Scale instead of Unraid due to specific considerations related to my primary workloads: virtual machines managed with Proxmox and Docker Swarm. Here are the key reasons for my choice

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Stephane Thirion

14 Mar 2025 · 3 min read

Homelab

DIY NAS 2025 (homelab) 1/2

Synology NAS devices are renowned for their versatility, offering everything from file sharing and virtualization support to advanced backup solutions. However, after years of using my Synology DS3617xs...

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Stephane Thirion

13 Mar 2025 · 4 min read

Citrix

Deploy Citrix Netscaler Console (ADM) on Proxmox

Citrix Netscaler Console (ex ADM) is a centralized management solution provided by Citrix that enables administrators to manage, monitor, and automate tasks across a different Citrix products

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Stephane Thirion

24 Feb 2025 · 4 min read

Proxmox

Configuring LACP in Proxmox

In today's virtualized environments / homelabs, maximizing network performance is crucial for ensuring smooth operation of hypervisors like Proxmox.

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Stephane Thirion

23 Feb 2025 · 3 min read

portainer

Deploying Portainer and Agent in Docker Swarm Using a Compose File

In this post, we’ll walk through a Docker Compose file that deploys both the Portainer Server (Enterprise Edition) and the Portainer Agent on a Docker Swarm cluster

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Stephane Thirion

5 Feb 2025 · 4 min read

Nightscout

How I Combined Nightscout and Ollama to Monitor My Son’s Glycemia with AI

As a parent of a child with diabetes, managing glycemia levels can feel like a full-time job...

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Stephane Thirion

25 Jan 2025 · 5 min read

Ollama

Setting Up Ollama with Open-WebUI: A Docker Compose Guide

In this blog post, we'll dive into setting up a powerful AI development environment using Docker Compose. The setup includes running the Ollama language model server and its corresponding web interface, Open-WebUI, both containerized for ease of use.

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Stephane Thirion

24 Jan 2025 · 4 min read

hoarder

Deploying Hoarder on Docker Swarm

Deploying a modern, multi-container application in a Docker Swarm environment can be both exciting and challenging. In this post, we'll walk through a sample Docker Compose file that deploys the Hoarder application along with its necessary dependencies

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Stephane Thirion

12 Jan 2025 · 4 min read

uptime

Deploying Uptime Kuma on Docker Swarm

Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted monitoring tool that allows you to keep track of your websites, services, or APIs with ease. In this guide, we'll go through the process of deploying Uptime Kuma on a Docker Swarm cluster using a highly available configuration.

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Stephane Thirion

10 Jan 2025 · 3 min read