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<about_me>
IT and service delivery leader with 20+ years in international corporations. Homelab enthusiast, technology explorer, and student of modern leadership. Writing it down at bizr.net.
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<The Blog>
Fresh notes from the homelab, the stack, and the leadership chair.
_Homelab
Watching the Firewall Breathe: Monitoring OPNsense with Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana
The OPNsense dashboard tells you how things look right now. It has…
Ditch Google: Self-Hosting SearXNG Behind Authelia for Desktop and Open WebUI
Every search query is a small confession. Here’s how I took mine…
Locking Down Authelia: TOTP, Real SMTP, and the Hostname-vs-IP TLS Trap
Claude responded: Post excerptPost excerptA login page that renders isn’t the same…
Never Lock Yourself Out: Building a Self-Updating Anti-Lockout Rule for OPNsense
Two firewalls, one home connection behind CGNAT, and a problem I kept…
From App Logs to Firewall Blocks: Building a fail2ban-to-OPNsense Ban Pipeline
fail2ban catches the bad guys, but if it’s only banning them at…
One Login to Rule Them All: Wiring Authelia as SSO for Open WebUI and Nextcloud
Authelia gives you one login screen, but underneath it you’re actually running…
_leadership
The Quiet Lie of the Performance Rating: When Reviews Serve the Budget, Not the People
The performance rating you receive each year is meant to reflect how you performed. In…
Human-Centric Leadership: Leading People in the Age of Automation
As AI absorbs the analytical and administrative core of knowledge work, a leader’s primary value…
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<My_Projects>
Tech and leadership keep me busy, but they’re not the whole picture. Outside the day job and the homelab, I tend to a couple of projects that have nothing to do with networks, code, or org charts — and that’s exactly why I love them. Whether it’s a recipe handed down through family or a coin minted two thousand years ago, they remind me that curiosity doesn’t need a Wi-Fi connection.









