Series of posts about my homelab Archive

The Faulted Disk: harbor Replacement Writeup

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:30:00 +0000

The sequel to panicking-led-to-losing-my-desktop — this time the monitoring actually caught the disk dying, and nothing was lost.

💭 Docker | Atuin Docs

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 20:58:59 +0000

A 2-fer... So I want to host atuin and share shell history across my machines on my tailnet I think... it's such a nice

Homelabbing Realization - Configs and Git

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 05:48:15 +0000

I'm back to brainstorming migrations away from Docker Compose to something that solves multi-node networking and secrets but I don't want to go to k8s... so...

RepoFlow Robot User

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 09:24:25 +0000

I'm trying to lean into repoFlow at home, and model some slightly better patterns than open borders to artifacts across all my services. As I'm getting...

Proxy Pull Docker Images From Self-Hosted Container Registry Through Self-Hosted Repoflow

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 06:59:02 +0000

This post is a short write-up of an issue I had while exploring Reploflow - a super solid artifactory-esq replacement for the homelab (and enterprise!). I've...

💭 My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:56:38 +0000

great post on self-hosting. I think in a lot of similar ways and had a siar journey. There's things I want to accomplish

Using restic to backup my home directory

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:12:26 +0000

I need to backup my personal $HOME to my NAS cause there's a lot in there, and mostly my git projects with .env files all over. Plus some docker data

Jellyfin

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:39:00 +0000

Jellyfin is the media server software I run at home

Ghost

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:23:35 +0000

Ghost is my primary application server. These are the specs...

The Homelab

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:22:51 +0000

This is the landing page for my homelab posts. It isn't a feed because I will write things here and link out to relevant parts of the homelab.

💭 Docker Brings Compose to the AI Agent Era | Docker

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 11:49:41 +0000

Seems like docker is leaning harder into compose - which is great for me as a heavy compose user. I had heard about some

💭 restic · Backups done right!

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 11:53:41 +0000

Welp, I need to be backing up my desktop home directory, specifically a directory of docker volume data... I thought dup

Thoughts To Nostr

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 08:30:35 +0000

I am trying to use temporal at home for running automated pipelines. It's definitely overkill for my use case but this is America...

💭 HomeBox

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 10:48:12 +0000

I stumbled onto homebox this morning scrolling a newsletter and it looks like something I've been lightly thinking about

💭 Self-Hosting A Cluster On Old Phones | Hackaday

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 11:30:17 +0000

Came across a blog and article on using a mobile OS to self-host a cluster on old phones... I happen to keep several old

Github Star Sorter

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 08:01:31 +0000

I wrote a simple app to sort, tag, and create tickets at home for my github stars... As of right now I have 1.3k stars and no convenient way to view them or...

temporal

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 21:21:43 +0000

Temporal is a workflow orchestrator that I'm interested in

Traefik and gRPC for Temporal at home

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 20:55:42 +0000

Someday I will potentially write up some stuff about temporal but for now it's a workflow orchestrator that I'm interested in and I wanted to PoC it in my...

Nextcloud PHP Opache Memory Consumption

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:46:20 +0000

Today I was combing through Nextcloud, just taking a gander at the apps, updates, etc.

Quit issueing 200s for 500s

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 06:55:21 +0000

Stop this nonsense

💭 Control Your n8n Instance Remotely with Telegram Bot Commands …

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:38:53 +0000

I'm doing a lot of thinking and brainstorming about how I want to run some pipelines I have in my head, at home... thing

Thinking In Diagrams

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 06:55:31 +0000

Something I didn't appreciate earlier on in my career (and I'm only 8 as far as the age of that career goes anyways) was thinking through problems with...

💭 pypeaday/whose-turn-is-it: Simple uv webapp to determine order…

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 01:23:26 +0000

We pray together as a family every night, but every single flipping night my daughter's fight about the order we go in..

Homelab Youtube Podcasts to AudioBookShelf Pipeline

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 13:53:12 +0000

I wrote about using homelab-pinchflat for at-home mashup creation and a song flow for church. But I use it for more than, that and here's another prime use case

source_up for nested .envrc

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 09:52:17 +0000

I have a use case for nesting directories with cascading .envrc files. and ran into an issue where the parent environment was being reset by the child...

Stable Diffusion QR Codes for Josh

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 06:27:28 +0000

(fjords of Finland:1.3), (steep cliffs:1.1), (crystal-clear water:1.2), (reflection of sky on water:1.1), (early morning light:1.2), (golden hour glow:1.1),...

U-Blue Aurora Upgrade Broke HWA Docker

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 08:42:09 +0000

I use Universal Blue's Aurora distribution on my daily driver desktop, and I rebooted today which led what I imagine is a kernel update. This broke all of my...

Homelab Pinchflat

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 08:51:21 +0000

I've written about self-hosted-media before and addressed some thoughts with YouTube.

If You Want Something Make It So - Song Style

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 08:44:14 +0000

In grad school a professor of mine, Mark Hunacek, said one of the most profound things I've ever heard to the tune "if you want it, then make it so"... It's...

ZSA typing challenge issue

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 08:07:41 +0000

I love zsa and have been using a moonlander for a few years now.

Double Check Your DNS Records

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 06:53:50 +0000

I host my blog on cloudflare and manage my infra with terraform. I got a 522 when I went to recently and I wondered why since worked fine...

💭 qwen3

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 02:23:23 +0000

I really don't know much about every self-hostable LLM out there... so much as happened. I am blessed at home with a pre

💭 News - Apps - App Store - Nextcloud

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 11:37:39 +0000

I just started using FreshRSS to get familiar with subscribing to RSS feeds and leaning into that as opposed to social m

Example For Andrew

Sun, 08 Jun 2025 14:48:53 +0000

I built a simple app for adding images to my blog

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 13:30:28 +0000

I built a simple fastAPI app called "shotput" that I run locally inside a git repo where I save images for my blog. The app is simple:

Double check your CIDR blocks!

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 07:27:31 +0000

Copy paste - don't rely on typing correctly...

homelab-journey-part-1

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 08:19:57 +0000

I want to start writing about my homelab and this first post can be a short introduction to how I got into homelabbing and a review of my current hardware....

Backups interrupted by full disk usage

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 21:08:50 +0000

I just got a message from HCIO that my primary backup script is late... This happens every now and then but I decided to check on it... Quickly in and I...

homelab-computer-vision-pipelines

Sat, 31 May 2025 08:18:55 +0000

Done in 11 seconds! Subtitle and audio files are in the outputs folder.

Backups are dope

Tue, 27 May 2025 19:42:27 +0000

I accidently chown'd -R an app directory and it totally screwed up the database folder. Luckily I zfs replicate my docker volumes to another drive even on...

SearXNG

Sun, 25 May 2025 08:33:10 +0000

I heard about SearXNG on a couple podcasts and saw it trending on GitHub several times before I finally decided to stand it up. I used it transparently when...

Grafana + Gotify for push notifications

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 10:12:51 +0000

It's easy to configure push notifications through Gotify from Grafana by setting up a generic Alerting Contact Point...

💭 audiobookshelf

Sun, 29 Dec 2024 20:53:19 +0000

Audiobookshelf looks like a solid competitor for booksonic. I've liked the simple subsonic api driven nature of booksoni

Add a healthcheck to your FastAPI app

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 15:41:36 +0000

I'm building a few FastAPI apps to throw in docker and run on my homelab... I wanted to add healthchecks and here's a simple way to do it

Jellyfin container updates for HWE + AMD

Sat, 14 Dec 2024 11:27:15 +0000

I use LSIO Jelyfin container for the easy addon they provide for AMD GPUs but I couldn't get trickplay to work with HWE...

hostnamectl to easily change hostname

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 07:25:59 +0000

hostnamectl is apparently a linux utility for easily changing your hostname in a variety of ways

DNS Broke After Reboot - Ubuntu 22.04

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 08:08:40 +0000

I rebooted by server and DNS broke randomly. I have no idea if it was from a kernel update or what but that's the issue with Ubuntu I guess...

OPNSense Bootstrap Recovery

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 08:40:19 +0000

enabling DHCP WAN port ()- running the bootstrap script -

Recovering OPNSense

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I woke up to faulty internet and after some troubleshooting it turns out the root zfs dataset that OPNSense boots from got corrupted...

docker-remote-add

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:19:00 +0000

Add from url??

Docker copy and chown

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:18:09 +0000

COPY --chown=myuser:mygroup source-file target-file

Interesting IPs between Jellyfin clients and server depending on tailscale and server address

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 06:24:57 +0000

When connecting from my phone to jellyfin I'm seeing some interesting patterns.

Upgrading your kernel can F you up… whoops

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 10:21:59 +0000

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/update-error-with-coral-tpu-drivers.136888/#post-608975 I lost TPU for frigate, this saved me ass

Customize K9s

Mon, 06 May 2024 11:57:07 +0000

To customize k9s use the skins from catppuccin or the ones k9s supplies

Kanboard to keep me focused on my own ideas

Sat, 20 Apr 2024 18:27:07 +0000

I've been using kanboard as a self-hosted kanban board. It's keeping me focused on Digital Harbor when I'd rather be doing something less productive.

DHCP Restart to Save Ubuntu 22.04 Server Networking

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 20:26:50 +0000

I moved a computer to a remote location for an off-site backup but when it was powered on it wouldn't show up on any networks. A solution that got me back in...

Simple Port Forwarding OPNSense

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 10:26:34 +0000

https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=8783.0

Refresh Nextcloud Groupfolders after messing around on the filesystem

Sat, 23 Sep 2023 12:45:06 +0000

Exec in as www-data and run ./occ groupfolders:scan folder_id -v (the -v to see what it's doing)

lsof to find what’s using your filesystem

Sun, 09 Apr 2023 13:32:38 +0000

lsof | grep /tank/nas shows me what is using my nas at any time!

Changing ZFS key for child datasets of encrypted dataset after migration

Sat, 08 Apr 2023 20:12:22 +0000

➜ pihole sudo zfs load-key -L file:///path/to/.zfs.tank.key tank/encrypted/vms/arch-sandbox ➜ pihole sudo zfs change-key -o...

Stable Diffusion Notes

Sat, 28 Jan 2023 14:15:11 +0000

Stable Diffusion is an AI art generation model similar to DALLE-2. Here are some prompts for generating art with Stable Diffusion.

FFMPEG 10-bit videos to 8-bit

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 13:15:53 +0000

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -map 0 -c:v libx264 -vf format=yuv420p -c:a copy output.mp4

Reminder about ssh-copy-id for SSH and Ansible

Wed, 28 Dec 2022 13:33:07 +0000

this makes sure I can run ansible from my desktop against VMs on my server easily if they have tailscale for the hostname - otherwise use the IP

Nextcloud Docker Upgrade Error

Wed, 28 Dec 2022 09:39:27 +0000

https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/nextcloud-docker-upgrade-error

Systemd timer for syncoid

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 11:38:27 +0000

I have a bash script called which boils down to a barebones -

Cron for Nextcloud in Docker

Tue, 13 Dec 2022 06:43:45 +0000

AJAX wasn't cutting it, traditional crontab in containers doesn't make much sense to me, webcron is recommended but I don't want to register with anything...

You can embed gifs?!

Sun, 09 Oct 2022 13:39:39 +0000

I learned you can embed gifs and stuch in things other than GH personal pages!

Don’t forget to load XMP!

Sun, 09 Oct 2022 07:17:43 +0000

Bought some DDR4-3600 speed RAM but only seeing 2666? Load up the BIOS, find DRAM config or something similar, and make sure to load the XMP profile to get...

My PassMark Scores

Sat, 08 Oct 2022 18:43:29 +0000

!!! note "Babyblue v2"

Quick setup of ZFS encrytped datasets with sane permissions

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 19:58:01 +0000

Assuming you have a pool called ...

Trick to login to web server on another box on lan

Mon, 12 Sep 2022 18:48:45 +0000

TODO: change title - add --listen or --host or something as 0.0.0.0... that way it listens not on localhost or 127.0.0.1, but on all addresses!

Paperless-NGX filtering on IDs instead of values

Tue, 09 Aug 2022 08:28:51 +0000

To filter for saved views from the admin console you have to use the of the tag you are using to filter on...

Mounting exFAT USB in Linux

Sun, 31 Jul 2022 07:38:43 +0000

Steps sudo fdisk -l then look for the device and partition get the Type column mount Example # dumbledore in /media NO PYTHON VENV SET ❯ sudo fdisk -l ... Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdk1 * 2048 60371951 60369904 28.8G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sdk2 60371952 60437487 65536 32M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32) dumbledore in /media NO PYTHON VENV SET ❯ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdk1 /media/ventoy-usb -o uid=1000 NTFS signature...

Xrdp-Authentication-Required-To-Create-Managed-Color-Device

Mon, 18 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I just need to RDP into an Ubuntu box via Remmina and everytime I login I have to authenticate to create a color managed device... which I don't even know...

ZFS Permissions for Sanoid/Syncoid

Fri, 08 Jul 2022 15:54:58 +0000

zfs allow -u $USER clone,load-key,create,destroy,mount,mountpoint,receive,send,rollback,compression,snapshot,hold,keylocation,bookmark tank load-key only needed if using encrypted datasets

Setup KVM to boot from local PXE server

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 12:30:50 +0000

Assuming you have a PXE server running you only need small edits to the virt-manager config

Self-hosted Docker registry with proxy pull through

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 06:44:35 +0000

I decided that I want to self-host all my docker images for the purposes of regularly rebuilding and security scanning. The first step is to set up a...

kvm-network-interface-via-nat-ubuntu-20

Sat, 25 Jun 2022 07:20:41 +0000

I have started using VMs more and more in my development workflow and it's impossible to work in a VM without an internet connection for me most of the time....

Reset SSH key passphrase

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 06:55:32 +0000

I got into a pickle where I encrypted the ssh keys I use for my SSH connections on LAN, but then I couldn't run my ansible playbook on my server! ssh-keygen...

Samba on Ubuntu 22 needs “inherit permissions” set

Tue, 31 May 2022 06:30:42 +0000

see samba config on hogwarts

Reindex Nextcloud After Adding Data via CLI

Sun, 29 May 2022 15:34:33 +0000

I wrote here about setting up as the owner of any directories you want nextcloud to manage. However, I regularly struggle wtih permissions issues on my NAS...

arr client config

Sat, 28 May 2022 13:29:28 +0000

TIL that when setting up download clients for radarr/sonarr/lidarr/readarr/bazarr/prowlarr that you can utilize internal DNS and instead of hardcoding an IP...

Add space to your LVM on Ubuntu

Thu, 26 May 2022 21:33:55 +0000

I ran out of space on the SSD in my server when doing some file transfers but only 100GB was used of a 256 GB SSD?

Tdarr worker nodes share the cache!

Wed, 25 May 2022 06:36:59 +0000

When working with tdarr remote nodes, they need to have access not only to the same libraries but also the same transcode cache as the server otherwise the...

Local DNS with Pi-hole

Mon, 23 May 2022 09:40:59 +0000

Tailscale is way easier than this... I was doing this local DNS overwrite in Pi-hole before running tailscale and I haven't just totally "kicked the habit"...

Configure bridge network on Ubuntu 22.04 with Netplan

Sun, 22 May 2022 14:55:28 +0000

See 02-....yaml in ansible-nas

Netplan change from Focal to Jammy

Sun, 22 May 2022 13:23:17 +0000

I am revamping my home server and bumped myself early up to Jammy Jellyfish... however to my peril I reused my netplan config and after hitting my server...

How I use Nextcloud for safe central storage

Thu, 19 May 2022 21:17:42 +0000

Setup admin 2. External Storage extension 3. Add my nas zfs dataset 4. chown -R www-data:www-data on anything nextcloud uploads to.

Nextcloud permissions with ZFS and Ansible-NAS

Thu, 19 May 2022 13:55:20 +0000

As the nextcloud docs say... if you want to write to an external volume that location has to be writeable by the user/group on the host system... so if that...

See ZFS snapshot disk usage

Thu, 19 May 2022 06:05:23 +0000

As I was cleaning up my NAS recently I noticed that I ran out of storage even though my disk usage looked pretty low... turns out I was keeping a mega-ton of...

Remove ZFS Dataset Specific Snapshots

Thu, 19 May 2022 05:49:16 +0000

I started my homelab journey being super naive about ZFS and how to manage the filesystem... that bit me in the butt when transfering a ton of files out of...

Jellyfin-Media-Players

Sun, 17 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I use Jellyfin at home for serving up most of our media - movies and shows etc.

self-hosted-media

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Self-hosting 1 or several media servers is another common homelab use-case. Getting content for your media servers is up to you, but I'll show a few ways...

Truenas-And-Wireguard

Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

One of the most common use cases for self-hosting anything is a file share system. I have been a fan of TrueNAS for a while. I currently use TrueNAS Core at...

Wireguard

Sat, 12 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Virtual Private Networks are a big deal, and this shouldn't be considered anything even close to a guide on using them. Here are just my notes and some setup...

Adblock-Coverage

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I run pi-hole at home for ad blocking and some internal DNS/DHCP handling.

Webservers-And-Indexes

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I host a lot of services in my homelab, but they're mostly dockerized applications so I have never had to care much about how content gets served up. Today I...

Traefik

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

If you don't know about traefik and you need a reverse-proxy then you might want to check it out. I used to use nginx for my reverse proxy but the config was...