The Practical Homelab: Self-Hosting, DevOps, and Automation You Can Actually Use
Hook: I learned the hard way that cloud-only thinking derails you when your home power flickers, your internet blinks, or a
~/self-hosting
Proxmox Tips and Tricks for a Lean, Secure Home Lab in the Post-RSS Era
A practical deep dive into Proxmox tips and tricks — real examples, comparisons, and setup guides.
The Pragmatic Homelab: Self-Hosting, Automation, and Real-World Reliability
If you’re reading this, you probably want a small, reliable corner of the internet you control—without spending a small fortune
~/self-hosting
Self-hosted Alternatives to Popular Cloud Services: Lessons from the Hugging Face Intrusion and the Model-Weights Dilemma
A practical deep dive into self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services — real examples, comparisons, and setup guides.
Build a Practical Homelab That Actually Works
The hook is simple: your home lab should be boringly reliable, not a perpetual project. If you treat it as a learning
~/tech
The Rise of Local Helpers: Why Stacked PRs and Local AI Are Reshaping Developer Productivity
A practical deep dive into state of developer productivity tools and the rise of local helpers — real examples, comparisons, and setup guides.
The Pragmatic Homelab: Self-Hosting, Automation, and Real-World DevOps in Your Closet
If your career hinges on knowing what’s actually running on your network, you owe it to yourself to build a homelab
~/gaming
If a 26B model can run on 2 GB, your large Minecraft modpack server can be tuned to do the same thing
A practical deep dive into Minecraft server management: optimization tips for large modpacks — real examples, comparisons, and setup guides.
A Practical Homelab: Self-Hosting CI/CD with Gitea, Drone, and a Lightweight Kubernetes
Hook: If you’re tired of cloud egress fees, flaky runners, and flaky CI caching, your best move is to bring the
From Zero to Self-Hosted DevOps: A Practical Homelab Blueprint
I built my homelab to feel less like a pile of gadgets and more like a productive, repeatable platform. The truth is:
~/gaming
Openness, GPUs, and Proxmox: Optimizing GPU passthrough for VM gaming in the open-model era
A practical deep dive into Optimizing Proxmox GPU passthrough for VM gaming — real examples, comparisons, and setup guides.
From Bare Metal to Reproducible Automations: A Pragmatic Homelab Playbook
I started with a dusty old PC under a desk, a notion that “automation” meant babysitting cron jobs and wishing for a