Who Actually Builds Infrastructure? Strategy Decks vs. The Engineering Reality of Core Systems

By | September 3, 2026
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The payments industry has a growing division of labour, and it isn’t between national banks, payment operators, commercial banks and fin-techs. It is between the people who build infrastructure and the people who make slides about it. Every major regulatory shift—ISO 20022 migration, SEPA Instant mandates, Request to Pay, Open Finance—spawns an entire ecosystem of… Read More: Who Actually Builds Infrastructure? Strategy Decks vs. The Engineering Reality… »

Embeding #Grafana dashboards in the GUI of a #SpringBoot Java application or a #Spring based #Java application deployed on #Jboss

By | August 24, 2026
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The following configurations should be done in order to embed Grafana dashboards directly in the GUI of a Spring based Java application deployed on Jboss. Note that this is a mix of Java code, Jboss configurations and Grafana configurations that should be done so to be able to smoothly embed Grafana Dashboards. The current example… Read More: Embeding #Grafana dashboards in the GUI of a #SpringBoot Java… »

Payment Infrastructure as a Strategic Asset: Balancing Sovereignty, Resilience, and Innovation

By | August 24, 2026
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Introduction In today’s increasingly interconnected financial ecosystem, payment infrastructure has evolved beyond a technical backbone into a strategic national asset. It underpins economic activity, enables financial inclusion, and shapes the resilience and competitiveness of entire economies. I hosted at Montran Africa Summit an recent expert panel featuring representatives from SWIFT and central banks and national… Read More: Payment Infrastructure as a Strategic Asset: Balancing Sovereignty, Resilience, and… »

Building a Self-Hosted Family Financial Hub: Wealthfolio, Actual Budget, and Authentik Behind a Unified Services Portal

By | August 23, 2026
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Modern family life comes with fragmented financial tools: checking accounts across different institutions, investment portfolios, retirement funds, kids’ allowances, and subscription trackers. Handing all this data to commercial SaaS platforms often means accepting recurring subscription costs, privacy compromises, and third-party tracking. I was looking also for a way to have a global look on all… Read More: Building a Self-Hosted Family Financial Hub: Wealthfolio, Actual Budget, and… »

Building an Automated Unified Monitoring Stack: Integrating LibreNMS, SNMP, Tailscale, UniFi & UISP APIs

By | August 19, 2026
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Executive Summary Observability in a multi-site network requires more than simple ping checks. To maintain high availability, detect performance degradation, and monitor system health across multiple locations (Sopor Site and Mircea Eliade Site), we built a centralized, automated monitoring hub powered by LibreNMS. This architecture unifies SNMP polling, Tailscale mesh network routing, UniFi Site Manager… Read More: Building an Automated Unified Monitoring Stack: Integrating LibreNMS, SNMP, Tailscale,… »

Multi-Site Homelab Mesh Networking: Building a Zero-Trust Network Overlay with Tailscale & Subnet Routing

By | August 19, 2026
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Executive Summary Connecting servers, storage nodes, and management interfaces scattered across different physical sites and ISP connections presents a classic networking challenge: handling dynamic IP addresses, Carrier-Grade NAT (CGNAT), firewall traversal, and secure remote access without exposing raw ports to the public internet. In our multi-site architecture, we resolved this by implementing Tailscale—a zero-trust overlay… Read More: Multi-Site Homelab Mesh Networking: Building a Zero-Trust Network Overlay with… »

My AI Assistant: Building a Private, E2EE Mobile Command Center with Signal, Obsidian, and Antigravity CLI (agy)

By | August 16, 2026
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In modern self-hosting and homelab architecture, remote management often forces a trade-off between convenience and security. Exposing web interfaces to the public internet or relying on proprietary cloud bots introduces security vectors and metadata leakage. By combining Signal (the gold standard of end-to-end encrypted messaging), Antigravity CLI (agy) (an autonomous local AI agentic assistant), and… Read More: My AI Assistant: Building a Private, E2EE Mobile Command Center… »

Resurrecting Legacy Wemo Devices (Switches & Motion Sensors) with Home Assistant and Antigravity (agy)

By | July 3, 2026
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In the smart home ecosystem, vendor deprecation is a common challenge. When hardware manufacturers terminate cloud support or deprecate mobile setup paths, legacy devices (like Gen 1 and Gen 2 Belkin Wemo smart plugs and motion detectors) often end up as e-waste. However, because these devices run a completely local UPnP/SSDP control API, they can… Read More: Resurrecting Legacy Wemo Devices (Switches & Motion Sensors) with Home… »

Integrating E.ON Romania (Gas & Electricity) with Home Assistant and Antigravity (agy)

By | July 2, 2026
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In smart home configurations, managing utility consumption is crucial for budget control and scheduling resource usage. This post explains how to integrate your E.ON Romania account (Myline portal) with Home Assistant and your developer AI assistant, Antigravity (agy). 1. Prerequisites and Installation To retrieve active billing and index data, we use the community custom integration… Read More: Integrating E.ON Romania (Gas & Electricity) with Home Assistant and… »

Powering the Dashboard: Connecting Hidroelectrica to Home Assistant and Antigravity (agy)

By | July 1, 2026
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Monitoring electricity bills and submitting meter readings is a breeze when integrated into your local smart home system. This post explains how to connect your Hidroelectrica (iHidro portal) account with Home Assistant and your AI developer assistant, Antigravity (agy). 1. Prerequisites and Installation To interface with the iHidro portal API, we use the community custom… Read More: Powering the Dashboard: Connecting Hidroelectrica to Home Assistant and Antigravity… »