Homelab
- The Real Cost of AI Tokens: Efficiency Lessons from a Resource-Constrained Homelab
— Tokens aren't free. On limited hardware and budgets, every call has real costs in compute, electricity, and money. Here's why efficiency matters for accessibility—and how a fleet-wide command broadcast system uses scripts to deliver high-level intelligence to an LLM with minimal waste.
· 03 Jun 2026
- Building My Own Internet on Top of the Internet: Lessons from Basic DNS and Appreciation for the World Wide Web
— Homelab Phase 2 progress with Tailscale mesh, ZFS storage, and Technitium DNS taught profound lessons about foundational DNS, the power and responsibility of running a private overlay 'internet,' and a renewed appreciation for the open World Wide Web — with security as the non-negotiable core. DNS integration is still incomplete.
· 03 Jun 2026
- State-Driven Security: Building a Modular Nervous System
— Moving beyond log-reading: How I re-architected my homelab into a self-diagnosing state machine using a decoupled MOTD, root-privileged SSH defense, and binary-state logic.
· 29 Jan 2026
- The Virtualization Shift: Reflections on Proxmox VE
— From hardware failure to high availability. Exploring how Proxmox turns a single server into a resilient, scalable digital ecosystem.
· 25 Jan 2026
- Proxmox Architecture – The Virtualization Foundation
— Moving from fragile bare-metal to a resilient, clustered Type-1 Hypervisor environment. My roadmap for high availability, ZFS storage, and automated disaster recovery.
· 25 Jan 2026
- Minilab Initialised - The Proxmox Migration
— From Data Disaster to High Availability 🚀
· 25 Jan 2026
- Server-Side Security – A Living Journey
— Security is a process, not a state. This is my real-time, public notebook of turning four random machines into a hardened, monitored, and automated personal cloud.
· 11 Dec 2025
- Server Monitoring System
— Security is a process, not a state. This is my real-time, public notebook of turning four random machines into a hardened, monitored, and automated personal cloud.
· 11 Dec 2025
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