Say hi to Grimlock. The homelab has a new member. Say hi to Grimlock. I was not looking to grow the fleet, but a Lenovo ThinkCentre M920q showed up for very little money, and I have a soft spot for those tiny form factor machines: no fan noise worth mentioning, sits anywhere, draws almost nothing. Cheap and quiet was …

One repository, one Dockhand, four machines. Megatron is still the odd one out. I did not plan any of this. It happened the way most homelab things happen: I ran one container, then five, then I could not remember which host was running what. True story. Many homelabers can validate its true. The first improvement was …

I did not start this because I was looking for a new observability platform. I started because I wanted to check what my multiple Hermes agents were doing. I have quite a few of them now (I am obsessed). Some run as profiles on the same machine, some run in Docker, and some live on other homelab machines. When I …

Why I set this up I got tired of Amazon Photos, at some point the Family setup was broken, my wife was locked out, the Amazon support was not super helpful after several calls. Also the price for storing videos has gone up and up and I felt that enough is enough, I needed to take ownership of my photos. In general I …

It's been a while since I got a Logitech Litra Glow USB light for my desk setup, and I wanted to control it directly from my CachyOS Arch system. Fortunately, there are some great open-source tools available in the AUR - litra and litra-autoglow. You learn something new every day. At some point I was afraid that I …

I was checking my blog, dont ask why and I just realised that my last post was about a small Python script that I created in order to boostrap my Fedora Desktop. I had a good time with Fedora, but I have switched some months now over to Arch and specifically CachyOS and I think I am loving it. I do like paru and pacman …

It's been a few months now since I switched to Fedora as the main OS on my PC. I've been using the KDE version and I'm pretty happy with it, as I'd gotten slightly tired of GNOME. It's been a journey for me, and one thing that has helped a lot in recent years is the fact that I maintain (like many, many others out …

I deciced to upgrade my monitor and this time I went really big! Welcome U4323QE .

This isn't a complete step-by-step guide, but rather some supplementary notes to complement Pangolin's excellent official documentation and Jims Garage's helpful video tutorial. What Is Pangolin? Pangolin is a reverse proxy that leverages WireGuard to securely expose and share services hosted on your local home …

Taking screenshots is something that I value a lot, so I wanted to find something easy to use and reliable. I ended up trying Flameshot, and I am super happy! 1snap install flameshot