Category

Homelab & Infrastructure

Linkwarden: Self-Hosted Bookmarking for the Tab Hoarder 2024-11-26
Kaniko: Building Container Images Inside Kubernetes 2024-11-21
Proxmox vs Kubernetes for the Home Lab: Pick the Right Tool for the Mess 2024-11-19
Supply Chain Attacks: From npm Typosquatting to Poisoned Container Images 2024-11-12
Keel: Automated Kubernetes Deployments Without GitOps Overhead 2024-10-24
Proton vs Tuta vs Self-Hosted: Email Privacy, Practically Assessed 2024-10-22
Let's Encrypt Rate Limits: What to Do When You Hit the Wall 2024-10-09
Calico vs Cilium: Kubernetes CNI for a Home Cluster 2024-10-08
Authelia vs Authentik: Choosing a Self-Hosted SSO You Won't Regret 2024-09-18
eBPF: The Linux Kernel Feature That's Changing Security (and Attack Surfaces) 2024-09-10
Just and Task: Modern Alternatives to Make That Don't Make You Cry 2024-09-03
Kubernetes CronJobs: Scheduled Tasks That Don't Silently Fail 2024-08-27
VictoriaMetrics: When Prometheus Gets Too Hungry for Your Hardware 2024-08-13
Technical Debt in a Home Lab: When to Refactor and When to Let It Rot 2024-08-06
CoreDNS and Kubernetes DNS: What Actually Happens When a Pod Looks Up a Name 2024-07-30
mDNS and Avahi: Local Service Discovery That Works Until It Doesn't 2024-07-03
Trivy and Container Scanning: Finding Vulnerabilities Before They Find You 2024-06-25
Cloudflare Tunnels: Exposing Services Without Opening Ports (and the Trade-Offs) 2024-06-11
Longhorn vs OpenEBS: Persistent Storage for Kubernetes That Isn't a Nightmare 2024-06-04
Matrix and Element: Self-Hosted Messaging That Federates 2024-05-28
cert-manager: Automated TLS Certificates That Actually Renew 2024-05-14
Kustomize: Kubernetes Configuration Without the Template Sprawl of Helm 2024-05-07
Firefly III: Self-Hosted Personal Finance Without the Bank Watching 2024-04-23
Nix: Reproducible Development Environments (Once You Survive the Learning Curve) 2024-04-16
Keepalived and Virtual IPs: High Availability Without a Load Balancer 2024-04-02
Ntfy: Self-Hosted Push Notifications That Replace Twelve SaaS Webhooks 2024-04-02
The Real Cost of Self-Hosting: Electricity, Time, and What You Actually Save 2024-03-28
Traefik vs Nginx Proxy Manager: Reverse Proxies for the Rest of Us 2024-03-19
GitOps with Flux: Letting Git Be Your Cluster's Source of Truth 2024-03-12
TOTP and WebAuthn: Two-Factor Authentication Without Authy 2024-03-05
MetalLB and Kubernetes Bare-Metal Networking: LoadBalancers Without a Cloud 2024-02-20
Writing CLI Tools in Go: From Zero to Useful in an Afternoon 2024-02-13
Paperless-ngx: A Paperless Office That Actually Works 2024-02-12
Podman: Running Containers Without Docker (and Without Losing Your Mind) 2024-02-06
De-Googling Your Life: A Realistic, Step-by-Step Migration Plan 2024-01-30
Loki: Log Aggregation for People Who Can't Afford Splunk 2024-01-23
K3s Multi-Node: Adding a Second Machine to Your Cluster 2024-01-16
Wake-on-LAN Automation: Powering Servers On and Off with Home Assistant 2024-01-05
Container Image Housekeeping: Pruning, Pinning, and Not Running latest in Production 2023-12-19
QNAP NAS as a Kubernetes Storage Backend: iSCSI, NFS, or Just Don't 2023-12-11
UniFi for the Home Lab: Where It Shines and Where It Doesn't 2023-12-05
Healthchecks.io (Self-Hosted): Making Sure Your Cron Jobs Actually Ran 2023-11-21
SQLite: The Database You Already Have and Probably Underuse 2023-11-14
Mealie: A Self-Hosted Recipe Manager for People Who Actually Cook 2023-11-07
Helm Charts Demystified: What They Actually Do and When to Skip Them 2023-10-31
Grafana and Prometheus: A Monitoring Stack That Scales Down 2023-10-17
Why Every Side Project Should Have a Backup Plan (And How to Build One) 2023-10-10
VLAN Segmentation at Home: Keeping Your Smart Toaster Away from Your NAS 2023-09-26
BGP at Home: What Happens When You Peer with Your ISP 2023-09-15
DNS Over HTTPS at Home: Running Your Own DoH Resolver 2023-08-12
Rallly: Self-Hosted Scheduling Without Doodle's Data Harvesting 2023-08-09
Tailscale vs Netbird: Self-Hosted Mesh VPNs Compared 2023-07-03
Javascript, the good, bad and ugly. 2022-12-22
The Internet Is a Series of Tubes 2022-05-13
Clearing your DNS cache 2021-12-25