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Chat transcripts are often packed with valuable information, much of which can be missed during a conversation. The quick mention of items that deserve more time than they were given, statements that are more powerful or clearly understood on paper rather than spoken, and serious statements masked by humor happen all the time - and the ability to extract the good stuff from them can lead to solving problems that may otherwise go overlooked:

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.

It looks impressive, but it skips the most critical step: intent. If you want to start a Homelab the right way, you start with intent. I like shiny things as much as the next person, and this lesson took me more than twenty years to fully understand.

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:

Now let’s talk about what each level implies.

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:

• A rack of retired enterprise gear in a basement
• A single mini-PC running Docker
• A media server with ambition - and probably a storage array
• A philosophical commitment to independence

The same drift has taken place with “self-hosting.” For some, it only counts if the hardware is physically located in your home. For others, a VPS you manage yourself qualifies just as well.

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.

You can’t become an expert without getting your hands a bit dirty, though. Let me set the stage so you understand where these opinions come from. Experience often dictates perspective, and mine comes from over 25 years of running mail servers in some form.