Marius Bogdan Lixandru

Marius Bogdan Lixandru is a highly experienced content creator from Romania with a background in biology, chemistry and computer programming. He loves writing technical guides that are accessible for non-technical people. Born in 1984, he has always expressed interest in technology. Beyond technology and biology, he has a passion for agriculture, the science and beauty of which have encouraged him to start his own vegetable garden and plant dozens of fruit-bearing trees with fragrant and succulent, sweet and sour fruits. When he’s not losing nights uncovering the deepest hidden secrets of the latest tech devices, he’s likely enjoying a refreshing slice of juicy, honey-sweet watermelon, sluggishly lying on the grass in his orchard, sitting in the shade under the trees he himself has planted. Torpid summer days accompanied by cicada sounds and greeted by his smiling wife and happy, tail-wagging presence of his two mioritic shepherd dogs are some of the simpler pleasures in life that help him recharge his batteries to take on the latest tech challenges. Support My Work and Feel free to contact me.

How to Install TREK on Your Synology NAS

22 July 202630 March 2026 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

TREK is a modern self-hosted, open-source travel planner that lets you and your group collaboratively build complete trips in real time. It combines drag-and-drop itineraries, interactive maps with place search and weather forecasts, budget tracking, packing lists, reservation management, and full PDF exports into one beautiful, installable Progressive Web App with offline support. Fully private … Read more about How to Install TREK on Your Synology NAS

How to Install Mealie on Your UGREEN NAS

8 July 202629 March 2026 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI backend and a reactive frontend application built in Vue for a pleasant user experience for the whole family. Easily add recipes into your database by providing the URL and Mealie will automatically import the relevant data or add a family recipe with … Read more about How to Install Mealie on Your UGREEN NAS

How to Install AnonFiles on Your Synology NAS

3 May 202628 March 2026 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

AnonFiles or AnonUpload is a simple, databaseless PHP file uploader. It’s built with privacy in mind, by not showing the direct filename used. AnonFiles is designed to work anywhere! Nginx, Apache, Lightspeed, anything will work! No rewrites, just pure PHP. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install AnonUpload on … Read more about How to Install AnonFiles on Your Synology NAS

How to Install Dynacat on Your Synology NAS

16 June 202628 March 2026 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

Dynacat is a lightweight, fast, and highly customizable self-hosted dashboard (fork of Glance) focused on dynamic reloading and seamless integration with external applications. It lets users build responsive pages via simple YAML configuration, featuring auto-updating widgets for RSS feeds, weather, server stats, market prices, media streams, Docker containers, and more, plus easy embedding of custom … Read more about How to Install Dynacat on Your Synology NAS

How to Install Mautic 6 on Your UGREEN NAS

11 July 202628 March 2026 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

Mautic is an open-source marketing automation platform that helps businesses and organizations manage, automate, and optimize their marketing campaigns across various channels like email, social media, and text messages. It provides tools for lead management, campaign automation, landing page creation, customer segmentation, and performance tracking. As an open-source solution, Mautic is free to use, customizable, … Read more about How to Install Mautic 6 on Your UGREEN NAS

Synology: Huge Docker Container Updates March 2026

27 March 2026 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

March 2026 has been an intense month, full of major updates, a few disappointments, and plenty of real talk from the self-hosted world. The good news is that Dockhand continues to grow incredibly day after day. What started as a breath of fresh air has become the preferred Docker management tool for thousands of us … Read more about Synology: Huge Docker Container Updates March 2026