# M. Hamzah Khan's Personal Blog - Self-proclaimed genius, and ruler of the Internet. DevOps Engineer the rest of the time.

> M. Hamzah Khan's Personal Blog is a technically rich and personally curated space focused on DevOps, self-hosting, homelab architecture, Kubernetes, CI/CD workflows, Linux system administration, Home Automation and 3D printing. 

## Articles

* 2025/06
    * [Parenting Like a DevOps Engineer: Managing the Chaos of Family Life](https://www.hamzahkhan.com/parenting-like-a-devops-engineer-managing-the-chaos-of-family-life/)
* 2025/05
    * [Reviving My Broken Ender 3](https://www.hamzahkhan.com/reviving-my-broken-ender-3/)
    * [Starting My 3D Printing Journey in 2025 with the Ender 3: Klipper, Tinkering, and Endless Upgrades](https://www.hamzahkhan.com/starting-my-3d-printing-journey-in-2025-with-the-ender-3/)
* 2024/03
    * [How to Redirect Hardcoded DNS with VyOS (Perfect for Pi-hole or Blocky Setups)](https://www.hamzahkhan.com/captive-dns-with-vyos/)
* 2023/09
    * [VyOS as a Reverse Proxy Load Balancer](https://www.hamzahkhan.com/vyos-reverse-proxy-load-balancer/)
    * [VyOS - WireGuard based Road Warrior VPN Configuration](https://www.hamzahkhan.com/vyos-road-warrior-vpn/)
    * [VyOS - Site-to-Site VPN using Wireguard and OSPF](https://www.hamzahkhan.com/vyos-ospf-wireguard/)
* 2022/07
    * [Using FreeIPA CA as an ACME Provider for cert-manager](https://www.hamzahkhan.com/using-freeipa-ca-as-an-acme-provider-for-cert-manager/)
* 2019/01
    * [Playing with Mastodon, the Open Source, Federated Social Network](https://www.hamzahkhan.com/playing-with-mastodon-the-open-source-federated-social-network/)
* 2018/12
    * [Automate Athan Prayer Times on Google Home with Home Assistant](https://www.hamzahkhan.com/prayer-time-notifications-on-google-home-via-home-assistant/)
* 2016/11
    * [Growing Date Palms from Seed](https://www.hamzahkhan.com/growing-date-palms-seed/)
* 2015/06
    * [Cisco ASA 9.2 on Cisco ASA 5505 with Unsupported Memory Configuration Fail](https://www.hamzahkhan.com/cisco-asa-9-2-cisco-asa-5505-unsupported-memory-configuration-fail/)
* 2014/02
    * [Securing Your Postfix Mail Server with Greylisting, SPF, DKIM and DMARC and TLS](https://www.hamzahkhan.com/securing-postfix-mail-server-greylisting-spf-dkim-dmarc-tls/)
* 2013/12
    * [Home Lab: Added a Cisco 3845 ISR](https://www.hamzahkhan.com/home-lab-added-cisco-3845-isr/)
* 2013/08
    * [Home Lab Network Redesign Part 2: The Edge Routers](https://www.hamzahkhan.com/home-lab-network-redesign-part-2-the-edge-routers/)
    * [Home Lab Network Redesign Part 1: The Remote Dedicated Server](https://www.hamzahkhan.com/home-lab-network-redesign-part-1-the-remote-dedicated-server/)
* 2013/07
    * [Home Lab Network Redesign with Mikrotik Routers](https://www.hamzahkhan.com/home-lab-network-redesign-with-mikrotik-routers/)
* 2013/03
    * [Connecting to Usenet via Two Internet Connections](https://www.hamzahkhan.com/connecting-to-usenet-via-two-internet-connections/)
* 2013/02
    * [Two more Cisco 7204 VXRs Added to My Home Lab!](https://www.hamzahkhan.com/two-more-cisco-7204-vxrs-added-to-my-home-lab/)
* 2013/01
    * [Cisco ASA 5505 RAM Upgrade](https://www.hamzahkhan.com/cisco-asa-5505-ram-upgrade/)
* 2009/09
    * [Nginx, Varnish, HAProxy, and Thin/Lighttpd](https://www.hamzahkhan.com/nginx-varnish-haproxy-and-thinlighttpd/)

## Others

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