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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…