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Running Your Own DNS Server in a Homelab - Architecture, Lessons, and My Setup
DNS is one of the most critical services on the internet, quietly hanging out in the background of nearly every transaction that takes place on the Internet and local area networks. Continue reading ...
Respect the Work: Why IT Buyers Don't Need Another Star Wars Pun
Pop culture references are everywhere in IT marketing. Infrastructure campaigns are built around lightsabers from Star Wars, firewall ads are wrapped in fantasy metaphors, and compliance webinars are named after space operas. Continue reading ...
NFS Mount Lazy Loading: Fixing Slow Boot Due to NFS
If you’re running NFS in your Homelab, you’ve probably dealt with this at least once. You reboot a machine and it takes way longer than it should - long enough to mentally inventory every possible failure point before the login screen appears. Continue reading ...
n8n Zoom Transcript Analysis Workflow (and Download)
Chat transcripts are often packed with valuable information, much of which can be missed during a conversation. Continue reading ...
Starting a Homelab the Right Way - With the Why
There’s a pattern I’ve noticed in Homelab culture: people start with hardware. Racks of it. Blinking lights, enterprise gear pulled from datacenters, computing clusters before identifying a single problem they’re trying to solve. Continue reading ...
The Self-Hosting Responsibility Spectrum
Not all self-hosting is equal. The difference isn’t hardware, its operational accountability. I took good look at my responsibility matrix and decided it was time for an upgrade to clarify where systems sit and what it all really means in practice: Continue reading ...
Homelabs, self-hosting, and doing whatever the fsck you want.
“Homelab” is one of those worlds that mean everything and nothing at the same time. Depending on who you ask, it’s one of these: Continue reading ...
Bullshit as a Service
The modern keyboard warrior has evolved into something much worse, and all it took was access to free generative AI services - and no, this isn’t about AI-powered scams, it’s about poor judgment and getting lost in fantasy. Continue reading ...
Running Your Own Mail Server: Lessons from 25+ Years of Chaos and Custody
Email is one of the oldest, most decentralized, and most politically fraught services on the Internet. It’s also one of the messiest topics in self-hosting, Homelab, and other scenarios where you take operational responsibility for a service often best left to experts. Continue reading ...
Your Intensity Brings Meaning
“We’ve traded intensity for meaning.” I saw that line while scrolling LinkedIn between meetings yesterday, and it refused to let go. By the afternoon, I was repeating it in a meeting with an IT vendor who wanted help stabilizing a product that’s been mostly vibe-coded. Continue reading ...