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Showcasing and discussing personal lab setups for security practice and research.

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Should Ntfy Run on the Home Server It Is Meant to Warn You About? Where Alerts Fail and How to Avoid It

Should Ntfy Run on the Home Server It Is Meant to Warn You About? Where Alerts Fail and How to Avoid It

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Wi-Fi Dead Zones in Victorian-Era Homes: A Network Engineer's Playbook

Wi-Fi Dead Zones in Victorian-Era Homes: A Network Engineer's Playbook

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A £130 fanless board and two drives replaced most of my cloud subscriptions — the real cost maths, and what actually keeps it alive

A £130 fanless board and two drives replaced most of my cloud subscriptions — the real cost maths, and what actually keeps it alive

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Track AI Token Spend in Grafana: Claude, Codex, and Ollama

Track AI Token Spend in Grafana: Claude, Codex, and Ollama

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I let an AI agent help run my Home Assistant setup — here's what I handed it, what I kept for myself, and why

I let an AI agent help run my Home Assistant setup — here's what I handed it, what I kept for myself, and why

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Staggered VM Boot: How I Prevented a Load Average of 147

Staggered VM Boot: How I Prevented a Load Average of 147

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The Shoemaker's Children Aren't Barefoot

The Shoemaker's Children Aren't Barefoot

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I run my homelab like a small company: the architecture, the org chart, and the rules I only learned by breaking things

I run my homelab like a small company: the architecture, the org chart, and the rules I only learned by breaking things

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Every secret in my homelab has exactly one home: how I run a self-hosted secrets manager, and the traps that bit me

Every secret in my homelab has exactly one home: how I run a self-hosted secrets manager, and the traps that bit me

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Putting Authelia in front of my whole homelab: what worked, what didn't, and the ÂŁ0 lesson that nearly undid all of it

Putting Authelia in front of my whole homelab: what worked, what didn't, and the ÂŁ0 lesson that nearly undid all of it

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The Overcommit Guard: How a Python Script Prevents Host Freezes

The Overcommit Guard: How a Python Script Prevents Host Freezes

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My Wife’s Steam Deck Is a Server Now. She Doesn’t Know Yet. 🫠

My Wife’s Steam Deck Is a Server Now. She Doesn’t Know Yet. 🫠

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Why we run storage on our own low-power hardware

Why we run storage on our own low-power hardware

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Your DNS resolver is dropping queries and calling it a timeout

Your DNS resolver is dropping queries and calling it a timeout

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On-demand SSH tunnels with systemd

On-demand SSH tunnels with systemd

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