4 self-hosting failures that return success
The failures that cost me the most in three years of self-hosting were never the ones that threw an error. An error is a gift: it tells you where to l…
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How to Install Proxmox VE (2026): Install + Update Reference
Installing Proxmox VE is genuinely easy. The graphical installer is a few screens, and it writes itself to disk in a couple of minutes. What trips peo…
Used Cisco Catalyst switches: 2960X vs 3750X vs 3850
If you're building a lab or scaling a small office network, Cisco Catalyst switches dominate the second-hand enterprise market. They're robust, well-d…
Local LLM vs Claude: Benchmarking qwen3-coder:30b as a Production Agent Backend
TL;DR Replayed 27 real historical tasks from Jarvis (my LangGraph agent, ~90 tools) through qwen3-coder:30b on an RTX 3090, scored against Claude's ac…
AI-NT-No-Problem: Cramming a 9950X3D and RTX 5090 Into an SFF Custom Loop
My homelab workstation — hostname AI-NT-No-Problem — has been running a Ryzen 9 9950X3D and an RTX 5090 in an Antec Performance 1 FT full tower for mo…
Build Your First Home Lab: The Developer's Budget Hardware Guide
Cloud compute costs are climbing and local environments are making a powerful comeback. Every staging instance and every CI pipeline you run on rented…
Hoplyra: self-hosted orchestration for multi-hop VPN chains
Hoplyra: self-hosted orchestration for multi-hop VPN chains Most VPN tools install one protocol on one server . Hoplyra covers the full stack: deploy,…
Designing Single-Purpose Agents Instead of One Big Automation Script
"Agent" has become one of those words that means everything and nothing this year. Before it was a hype term, I'd already ended up with a small flock …
How Much Does It Actually Cost to Run a Local LLM? (€ per Million Tokens, Measured)
"It runs on my own GPU, so it's basically free." I believed that until I put a meter on it. So I ran a controlled benchmark on one box — an openSUSE m…
SAN vs NAS for your home lab: which used storage to buy
If you're building out a home lab and need shared storage, you'll eventually hit the SAN vs NAS question. Both solve "storage that multiple machines c…
I Stopped Paying Google and Built My Own Cloud
How I replaced Google Photos, Google Drive, and Google Home with a self-hosted Raspberry Pi 5 setup - and what the full technical stack looks like. Th…
How to Build a Secure Homelab for LLM Inference
We’ve treated local AI deployments as experimental toys for too long. The moment a homelab becomes a dependency for work, the security posture must sh…
Debugging LACP Instability in a Transparent OPNsense Bridge
I run a transparent OPNsense bridge between a UniFi Dream Machine Pro and the rest of my LAN. It is deliberately boring at Layer 3: the UDM keeps rout…
Setting Up OpenClaw on ZimaCube: It's Easier Than You Think
Spoiler: the machine was fine. My assumptions were not. Step 0: SSH Is Not Enabled by Default You will try to SSH into your ZimaCube Pro. It will refu…
Building a Real Cybersecurity Lab on Your Laptop
One of the biggest mistakes beginners make in cybersecurity is trying to learn entirely through theory. They watch videos. Read articles. Take notes. …
Fitting WhisperX large-v3 + a 24B LLM on one 3090: a reproducible context-capping recipe
This is the technical, reproducible version of a fix I shipped on my own homelab. If you want the narrative version, that's on Medium. This one is the…
Do You Have a Homelab? Secure Your Local LLM Artifacts
We used to build homelabs around Linux servers, Docker containers, and NAS drives. It was about uptime, RAID levels, and monitoring CPU temps. Now, th…
Your NAS Is Loud Because of Docker (and How to Fix It)
You buy a NAS for silent, always-on storage. It sits in a corner, humming quietly, doing its thing. You installed Docker on it for the same reason I d…
Stop picking a homelab mini-PC by TDP. The number that decides the power bill is idle watts.
A homelab box that never sleeps runs 8,760 hours a year. So the spec that decides what it costs you is not the one on the box. It is the one nobody pr…
Your NAS Is Loud Because of Docker and Syncthing (and How to Fix It)
You buy a NAS for silent, always-on storage. It sits in a corner, humming quietly, doing its thing. Then you install Docker. Then Syncthing. Then a fe…
Qwen Is Not Yet Ready to Power Local OpenClaw Deployments
Three weeks ago I ran a model showdown — twelve tasks, five models, one RTX 5090 — and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B won. 85.3 weighted score, 206 tok/s, fits in VR…
I built a self-hosted Linux fleet manager with no database and zero pip dependencies
I manage a small fleet of Linux servers and got tired of the options: Ansible is great but not a dashboard. Grafana + Prometheus is powerful but heavy…
How to enhance your network with transparent Wake-on-LAN capabilities
This is the story of how I got frustrated with the energy efficiency of my Homelab network and decided to create a solution that gradually became a so…
Stop Paying for Cloud VMs — Self-Host Your Dev Stack on Refurbished Enterprise Hardware
Cloud computing is brilliant. I'm not here to argue otherwise. But there's a specific use case where it consistently costs more than it should, and mo…
Ceph on Ubuntu (Single Node): Setup Guide (OSD, iSCSI, Bonding)
I recently put together a small Ceph lab on Ubuntu using cephadm, mainly to understand how everything fits together in a real environment. Most guides…
Tailscale Subnet Routers: Accessing Your LAN Without the VPN Headache
I spent three hours trying to SSH into a legacy industrial gateway from a coffee shop, only to realize I'd forgotten to install the Tailscale agent on…
Model Showdown Round 3: Ditching Ollama in Favor of llama.cpp
In Round 1 , we ran five local models and two cloud models through a single coding task. The local models held their own. In Round 2 , we added Gemma …
GPU PCI Address Instability: When Your Card Moves Between Reboots
I spent an entire afternoon debugging a VM that refused to boot, only to find out my GPU had decided to change its PCI address. One reboot and the dev…
I Thought Portfolios Weren't for People Like Me. So I Built a Wiki Instead.
For a long time I operated under a quiet assumption: portfolios are for developers. They're for people who build things — apps, tools, open source pro…