Chapter Lead (operations & infrastructure), People Unit Lead. Ευάγγελος Μπαλάσκας
Athens, Greece
Joined January 2011
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twice today, I tried to connect and typed love instead of live to some production systems, and failed 😔
prooven once again, that you should try connecting❤️with living beings instead of computers!
Brain a free collection of short cognitive games for attention, memory, visual search, reasoning & pattern recognition. A better alternative to doom scrolling.
Stroop, Sudoku, SET, Mental Rotation, Emoji Mahjong , Marble Jump & more
Works fully offline ✈️
brain.ebal.gr
Evaggelos Balaskas retweeted
Greek power is opaque, cryptic & expensive, and brokers just yank you around. So I built a Claude #Skill that reads your bills, shows the real price behind the headline, and what to switch to (verify before you do). github.com/pmoust/greek-elec…
🚀Apple has introduced a new way to run Linux containers on Apple silicon Macs using lightweight virtual machines.
blog.balaskas.gr/2026/06/25/…
I walk you through how to install and use Apple’s container tool on macOS 26.
#Apple #macOS #Containers #Linux #AppleSilicon #Docker #OCI
Build your own ChatGPT-like for free. a simple way to experiment with free LLMs through a self-hosted interface.
- Open WebUI as the chat interface
- LiteLLM as the OpenAI-compatible proxy (as an extra note)
- OpenRouter as the gateway to free LLMs
blog.balaskas.gr/2026/06/12/…
Protecting your sites with #traefik’s #fail2ban plugin
blog.balaskas.gr/2026/04/14/…
as a middleware that blocks malicious IPs targeting sensitive endpoints while delivering an application‑aware protection directly within the reverse proxy.
🤖 Made with AI
Replace cloud AI coding agents with a fully local setup. Using OpenCode and LM Studio, 100% locally on your machine — No Cloud, No API, No Cost !
blog.balaskas.gr/2026/03/18/…
#LocalAI #OpenSource #AICoding #LMStudio #OpenCode #PrivacyFirst #DeveloperTools
🚀 New blog post: LiteLLM as a Local Model AI Gateway
LiteLLM solves the problem of running multiple AI models across different inference. With Lite LLM we can have one clean OpenAI-compatible endpoint that routes to all of them.
blog.balaskas.gr/2026/03/10/…
#AI #LLM #SelfHosted
🛡️ Want to issue wildcard SSL certificates with Let's Encrypt?
Learn how to automate it using acme.sh + LuaDNS API!
Step-by-step guide, full terminal output, and no guesswork.
Perfect for #DevOps, #Linux, and #SelfHosting folks 👇
🔗 balaskas.gr/blog/2025/04/17/…
🚀 Setting Up Traefik Reverse Proxy with Let's Encrypt for automatic SSL!
github.com/ebal/traefik-intr…
a comprehensive guide on how to securely exposed your docker containers with minimal config.
⚡🔧 #DevOps #Docker #Traefik #LetsEncrypt #docker #selfhosted
Αυτό που με ενοχλεί περισσότερο είναι πως σε λίγες μέρες πρέπει να γράφω 2025 και μόλις την προηγούμενη βδομάδα κατάφερα να γράψω 2024 αντί για 2023 σε έγγραφο !
Update your #DNS over #HTTPS (#DoH) settings in the latest version of #Firefox and use LibreDNS (libredns.gr), a free service that enhances your privacy by encrypting your DNS queries, preventing your provider from accessing or altering the DNS responses.
Thank you for being a valued member.
We hope you’re enjoying everything #Netflix has to offer.
We’re updating your monthly price to EUR12.49 on January 11th, 2025.
Imagine not being a valued member!
I've updated my notes on "Setting Up a #Kubernetes Cluster with #Kubeadm on #Ubuntu 24.04 LTS"
github.com/ebal/k8s_cluster
Let me introduce you, my productivity approach for email organization.
1. robot accounts --> Archive
2. people accounts --> Inbox
a. Unread Email (or need action) --> Inbox Unread
b. Read Email --> Inbox/<year>
that's it.
Is it perfect ? No.
But it is good, it's simple.
κυρ @P_Yeroulanos, συνεργάτιδά σας επικοινώνησε στο κινητό του πατέρα μου εκ μέρους σας. Είπα πως ο πατέρας μου έχει πρόσφατα πεθάνει, κρατάμε τον αριθμό για συλλυπητήρια. Με ενημέρωσε πως δεν το γνώριζε αυτό. Αγενέστατα, συνέχισε να μου λέει πως με ενδιαφέρει εμένα αυτό το τηλ