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Right to Local Intelligence: Why Running AI on Your Own Hardware Matters
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Right to Local Intelligence: Why Running AI on Your Own Hardware Matters

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Techie Mike
Cloudflare Self-Managed OAuth — What It Means for Your Homelab Security
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Cloudflare Self-Managed OAuth — What It Means for Your Homelab Security

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Techie Mike
Learning Docker by Building a Container Engine from Scratch
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Learning Docker by Building a Container Engine from Scratch

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Techie Mike
The Minimal Homelab That Actually Works
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The Minimal Homelab That Actually Works

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Techie Mike
OpenCV 5 Computer Vision in Python for CS Students
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OpenCV 5 Computer Vision in Python for CS Students

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Switch from pip to uv — Python's New Package Manager Guide
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Switch from pip to uv — Python's New Package Manager Guide

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9618 Paper 1 Theory Fundamentals — AS CS Topic Guide
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9618 Paper 1 Theory Fundamentals — AS CS Topic Guide

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Debugging Python for A-Level CS — Tracebacks & Fixes
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Debugging Python for A-Level CS — Tracebacks & Fixes

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Self-Host Redis 8.8 with Docker Compose — Homelab Guide
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Self-Host Redis 8.8 with Docker Compose — Homelab Guide

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Switch from pip to uv — Python's New Package Manager
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Switch from pip to uv — Python's New Package Manager

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Techie Mike
Binary, Hex & Number Systems — Visual Guide for IGCSE CS
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Binary, Hex & Number Systems — Visual Guide for IGCSE CS

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Python File Handling for IGCSE & A-Level CS — Examples
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Python File Handling for IGCSE & A-Level CS — Examples

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How to Set Up a Test Pipeline That Actually Catches Bugs
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How to Set Up a Test Pipeline That Actually Catches Bugs

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How to Set Up Hermes Agent on a Mini PC Home Server
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How to Set Up Hermes Agent on a Mini PC Home Server

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🔒 0417/12 Paper 1 – Security, File Transfer & ATM Processing | June 2025
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🔒 0417/12 Paper 1 – Security, File Transfer & ATM Processing | June 2025

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📝 0417/11 Paper 1 – Testing, Safety & Security | June 2025
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📝 0417/11 Paper 1 – Testing, Safety & Security | June 2025

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📝 9618/12 Paper 1 – Databases, Data Structures & Algorithms | June 2025
Cambridge Exams Computer science

📝 9618/12 Paper 1 – Databases, Data Structures & Algorithms | June 2025

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📝 9618/22 Paper 2 – Records, Files & Programming Techniques | June 2025
Cambridge Exams Computer science

📝 9618/22 Paper 2 – Records, Files & Programming Techniques | June 2025

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📝 9618/22 Paper 2 – Algorithms, Data Structures & Sorting | June 2025
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📝 9618/22 Paper 2 – Algorithms, Data Structures & Sorting | June 2025

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📝 9618/22 Paper 2 – Development Life Cycles, Maintenance & Testing | June 2025
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📝 9618/22 Paper 2 – Development Life Cycles, Maintenance & Testing | June 2025

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📝 9618/12 Paper 1 – Assembly, Logic Circuits & Communication | June 2025
Cambridge Exams Computer science

📝 9618/12 Paper 1 – Assembly, Logic Circuits & Communication | June 2025

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🖥️ 0417/12 Paper 1 – System Testing, Safety & Cybersecurity | June 2025
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🖥️ 0417/12 Paper 1 – System Testing, Safety & Cybersecurity | June 2025

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📝 0417/12 Paper 1 – Input Devices, Applications Software & Biometric Systems | June 2025
Cambridge Exams IGCSE ICT

📝 0417/12 Paper 1 – Input Devices, Applications Software & Biometric Systems | June 2025

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📝 9618/12 Paper 1 – Von Neumann, Number Systems & AI | June 2025
Cambridge Exams Computer science

📝 9618/12 Paper 1 – Von Neumann, Number Systems & AI | June 2025

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📝 0417/11 Paper 1 – Output Devices, Applications Software & Smartphones | June 2025
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📝 0417/11 Paper 1 – Output Devices, Applications Software & Smartphones | June 2025

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Why use indentation in Python
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Why use indentation in Python

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OSI Reference Model-Networking 101
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OSI Reference Model-Networking 101

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Techie Mike — Tech Tutorials for Students & Homelab Enthusiasts

Practical tech tutorials for Cambridge CS/ICT students and homelab enthusiasts. I break down complex topics — VirtualBox, Proxmox, ethical hacking, Python, and exam prep — into clear, hands-on guides you can actually follow. No fluff, just real skills.

Self-Hosting Toolkit: 10 Apps I Actually Use Every Day
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Self-Hosting Toolkit: 10 Apps I Actually Use Every Day

# Self-Hosting Toolkit: 10 Apps I Actually Use Every Day Every homelab goes through the same cycle. You start with one service. Then you discover three more. Then you're running 25 Docker containers and half of them haven't been touched in six months. I know because I did it. Last year I audited m…
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SSH Tunnels: A Practical Guide for Homelab Users and CS Students
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SSH Tunnels: A Practical Guide for Homelab Users and CS Students

# SSH Tunnels: A Practical Guide for Homelab Users and CS Students There's a moment every homelab user hits. You're away from home, staring at a coffee shop Wi-Fi login page, and you need to check your Proxmox dashboard. Or you want to share your Jellyfin server with a friend, but it's behind your…
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Self-Hosted LLMs with Docker, Ollama, and Open WebUI
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Self-Hosted LLMs with Docker, Ollama, and Open WebUI

# Self-Hosted LLMs with Docker, Ollama, and Open WebUI Cloud AI is convenient. Open a browser, type a prompt, get an answer. But it comes with three things that bug me: API bills that surprise you at the end of the month, rate limits that kick in when you're in the middle of something, and the know…
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High School to Homelab — A Student's Linux Journey
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High School to Homelab — A Student's Linux Journey

# High School to Homelab — A Student's Linux Journey Last week, a high school student posted on [r/homelab](https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/). i5-6500T. 40TB NAS. ThinkPad X13 running Proxmox. Looking for advice on his setup. The best way to learn is to try and fail.…
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Learning Docker by Building a Container Engine from Scratch
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Learning Docker by Building a Container Engine from Scratch

# Learning Docker by Building a Container Engine from Scratch If you've used Docker for any length of time, you've probably internalized the vocabulary. Images. Containers. Dockerfiles. `docker run -d --name my-app nginx`. It works. You ship code. Everyone's happy. But here's a question: what actu…
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The Minimal Homelab That Actually Works
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The Minimal Homelab That Actually Works

# Am I Overcomplicating This? — The Minimal Homelab That Actually Works Scroll through r/homelab for ten minutes and you'll see server racks that look like data center colocations. 42U cabinets. Enterprise switches with SFP+ cages blinking amber. Dual Xeon boxes drawing 400 watts.…
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OpenCV 5 Computer Vision in Python for CS Students
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OpenCV 5 Computer Vision in Python for CS Students

You've written Python programs that print to the terminal, read files, and maybe even scraped a website. But have you written code that can _see_? Code that can detect edges in a photograph or find faces in a group picture? That's computer vision.…
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1-Click GitHub Token Theft via VSCode Bug — Security Alert
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1-Click GitHub Token Theft via VSCode Bug — Security Alert

Just by clicking a link, it's possible for an attacker to steal a GitHub token that can read **and write** to your repos — including private ones. This isn't a hypothetical vulnerability or a "theoretical risk" scenario. Security researcher [Ammar Askar](https://blog.ammaraskar.com/github-token-ste…
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Computer Science teacher in Thailand. 10+ years Cambridge IGCSE, 4 years AS/A Level. BSc Computer Science & Engineering. Ex-Intel, Virgin Media. Practical exam prep, past paper walkthroughs and tech tutorials.
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