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I segmented my home lab's network from my smart home, and stability improved overnight
Everything in its place, and a place for everything
My Proxmox server now runs a full dev environment for AI agents, and it's surprisingly easy to manage
I brought the cloud, home.
5 things I 3D printed for my home lab that fixed problems I'd been living with
A 3D printer was a surprisingly useful investment for my home lab
I built a $15 ESP32 display that shows exactly what my home server is doing
The missing piece wasn’t another monitor.
I ditched OpenClaw for OpenAI's Dots, and setup took minutes instead of hours
It's (probably) safer by design as well
Old enterprise servers are the worst way to start a Proxmox homelab, and a retired office PC beats them on almost everything
Don't make the same mistake others do.
ECC memory isn't the NAS requirement people make it out to be, and there are better ways to protect your data
ECC memory solved a problem that backups (and scrub tasks) handle better
I connected my local LLM to Discord, and now I can reach it from anywhere without opening a single port
No reverse proxy, no port forwards, no Tailscale, no fuss
Intel stopped making Optane, but its tiny 118GB drive is still the boot drive home lab enthusiasts hunt for
There's still nothing like Optane
I added health checks to every Docker container, and now my homelab restarts its own broken services
It only handles the boring failure.
After years of self-hosting, here are 5 mistakes I will never make again
These hard-earned lessons completely changed how I approach self-hosting.
My home server's CPU had a free iGPU that I disregarded for months, and it handles all my Jellyfin transcoding now
Quick Sync Video turned my budget N100 into a transcoding powerhouse I didn't know I had
I calculated my old PC's true power cost as a home server, and it beat every alternative I tested
The upgrade I'm still not making.
Pangolin lets me reach my own apps from anywhere, and I didn't have to open a single port
So, is Pangolin worth the trouble?
I tried replacing Proxmox with an open-source OS you’ve never heard of
This Proxmox rival gets a lot of things right
Mixing managed and unmanaged switches broke my network in ways I never expected
Don't let the time you spent setting up VLANs and other features go to waste
Push notifications finally solved my home lab alerting problem that email never could
Emails can get lost in the shuffle, but ntfy catches downtime instantly
