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I’d like to start this off by clearly stating that I’m not a network engineer, nor do I know how to be one. That said, however, a project idea came to me one day as I thought about breaking myself free from Cloudflare Tunnels. I built a weird setup with a Raspberry Pi, Nginx Proxy Manager, a separate VLAN, and a series of Docker containers that I wanted to access externally. I wasted hours, days, in pure frustration, only to find out that the solution was so simple. ...

There I was, minding my own business downloading ebooks from my Calibre server to my Kobo Libra 2 via the web browser when I stumbled upon a comment. This comment, courtesy of a now unknown Redditor, briefly mentioned something I’d never heard of. Apparently, Calibre Web, the very service I used to sideload books onto my Kobo, had a built-in Kobo sync feature. I stared incredulously at this comment, and then started to do some digging. I even ventured onto Google to find answers, as DuckDuckGo proved unable to pinpoint the exact information I needed. Sure enough, I found what I wanted, or at least the beginnings of it. ...