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The Guardians of the …
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I’ve got a walking pad under my desk. Great for the step count, terrible for my homelab’s blood pressure. Every time I turn the thing on, the motor throws a tantrum through the mains and my monitor flickers, my USB peripherals disconnect and reconnect like they’re having …
The Secret of Screen …
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Trust me on the greeting. There are pirates in this one. Sort of.
Before we start, a bit of anticipation: there’s a new rack in the lab. It’s orange and grey, it’s 3D printed, and the story of how it got here deserves a post all of its own, which is coming. Today is about …
I never changed careers, …
What a bass guitar, a Commodore 64, and a mixing desk taught me about becoming a CTO.
A few weeks ago I was cleaning up my Google Drive, which is the digital equivalent of finally opening that one drawer everyone has at home - the one with cables for devices you no longer own, warranties for things …
Getting Married with... …
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Most people rely on spreadsheets, wedding planners, or endless email chains to organize their big day. I… used my homelab.
Yes, the same rack that usually runs Docker containers, test VMs, and questionable “this will only take 5 minutes” experiments is now co-organizing my wedding. And …
Deploying Tabby Web with …
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Gather ‘round fellow homelab wranglers, because I’m about to share the saga of how I ended up deploying Tabby in Docker Compose-not because I had to, but because I’m an unrepentant configuration maximalist who wants his terminal settings to sync across every machine, every time, everywhere. …
Make Space, Not War: …
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Have you ever found yourself lacking some space around you? You’d love to buy that beautiful piece of furniture for your house, but then you think:
“Oh dude, how can it fit? I don’t have enough space!”
Well, in a similar fashion, that’s exactly what my OpenMediaVault (OMV) …
A NAS build: part 4 - …
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Rejoice people, rejoice! My homelab is taking shape: with the arrival of my first 2 HDD and the components to hook them up, I was able to review and correct some of the previous steps and fix some trivial mistakes.
Using my magic skill to transform money into products, this time on my table …
A NAS build: part 3 - …
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After exactly a month, the Sagittarius 8-bay case was finally delivered. I don’t know what’s going on in the Netherlands, but my parcel must have been living its best life-it vacationed in Northern European customs for over two weeks.
I’ve been building PCs from spare parts since I was 8. …
A journey on detoxing …
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A wise man once said: “If something is free, it means that you are the product.” And let’s be honest - we all rely on cloud storage to sync, store, and share stuff between our devices and with other people. Most of us live on Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, or whatever flavor of the month. …
A NAS build: part 2 - …
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This is just a super-quick update. As expected, the parts I ordered have started arriving in multiple shipments-everything but the case. At the time I’m writing this, it’s been stuck in the Netherlands for over two weeks!
Since some of the parts I bought are second-hand, I needed to test …