Liviu Iancu

Web developer, former designer, and a curious geek at heart. On this blog i write about experiments, thoughts and my learning process. Tinkering with scripts, firewalls, home network, web apps, algorithms, design and more.

馃捇 Convex Hosting on a Home Lab with Docker and Orbstack

Self-hosting modern application backends is often a puzzle of configuration, especially when working with newer architectures and tools. Convex, with its focus on full-stack development, offers a self-hosted option that鈥檚 perfect for a home lab environment.

November 20, 2025 路 3 min 路 Liviu Iancu

Comparing four ai generators generating a voting app

Using the same prompt on four ai app generators to see how they compare. Main goal is to generate a voting web app

October 11, 2025 路 5 min 路 Liviu Iancu

Home lab vs Cloud provider: My quest for affordable, practical DevOps Kubernetes experience

Reasons why I stopped using Azure and decided to use my home lab to build a portfolio and gain practical knowledge.

March 26, 2025 路 4 min 路 Liviu Iancu

Building My Own Firewall Router with OPNsense: A Journey in Home Network Security

Some practical benefits running OPNsense on your home network. It vastly improves safety for anyone at home using the internet.

January 23, 2025 路 3 min 路 Liviu Iancu

Painting the command line: Coloring the terminal output to make more sense of data

Coloring the output of a command

August 25, 2024 路 4 min 路 Liviu Iancu