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 …

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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 …

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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. …

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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) …

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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 …

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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. …

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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. …

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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 …

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I finally took some time to revamp my homelab. The original setup was pretty humble: a Raspberry Pi flashed with OpenMediaVault and two USB DAS units hanging off it. I had a few containers running, and it served me well for a while.

But then Home Assistant came into my life.

Running it in a …

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Lately, procrastinating on a personal project has seemed to be the leitmotif of my existence! I don’t know if it’s the new job or the recent DIY home renovation, but this project has been sitting stalled on my shelf for months-ever since I started it last summer.

While working on the Ampere …