Posts tagged: homelab

All posts with the tag "homelab"

81 posts latest post 2026-10-06
Publishing rhythm
Oct 2026 | 1 posts
Double Check Your DNS Records

Double Check Your DNS Records

My Blog 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… Terraform # I had this right in the terraform: But turns out the record was commented out for some reason in my terraform code: A quick (careful with this) and we’re up and running with the record now

💭 qwen3

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

1 min

tl;dr

Copy paste - don’t rely on typing correctly…

The Issue

I use tailscale at home and generally love it. One thing I use it for is whitelisting - so I have some apps publically available and my homelab ones have DNS with SSL certs by LE but I whitelist to only my private IPs so that I can use https at home basically. However I have had a few issues with a couple apps, and I kind of chaulked it up to “network protocol this” “need to figure out that header that” but ultimately I was being lazy and the issues weren’t catastrophic… it was things like:

  1. couldn’t get to my NVR by DNS, so I’d have to use tailscale_ip:port
  2. couldn’t login with my user in jellyfin cause I lock me down to LAN only since I dont’ use a password
  3. gotify wouldn’t connect using DNS

These things aren’t huge but they are annoying and today I decided to figure it out.

Typo! #

I’m not an expert yet but I think the main problem was the CIDR block I was using in my traefik config.

This’ll shock some of you but 10.64.0.0/10 and 100.64.0.0/10 are not the same blocks!

Check your CIDRs

It’s always DNS, and even when it’s not, it’s still probably networking

Backups interrupted by full disk usage

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 notice it takes a long time to connect, but nothing errors out… I’ve been in the game long enough to think this kind of latency is often disk IO. After waiting a bit and haulting the zshrc sourcing, I hit a and bam… There’s a container logfile that’s about 80GB sitting in … Easy enough to remove, but I need to setup some alerts on disk usage, and identify the container to limit the log file size Useful Notifications I use healthchecks.io to monitor several scripts. You can self-host it but I use the hosted service since he has simple Signal integration

homelab-computer-vision-pipelines

Done in 11 seconds! Subtitle and audio files are in the outputs folder. I wanted to talk through an idea I have for some computer vision pipelines at home. I heard of a tool called Roboflow, which is like a no-code computer vision pipeline training and inference tool. It seems very cool. I also use Frigate at home, and Frigate supports lots of detection on the NVR side. And so deploying a model in Frigate or using Roboflow, depending on what kind of customization you would need, you can have these detections potentially be as accurate as you want, at least with Roboflow. The thing is, I don’t know about Frigate, but my ideas are if I have a model at home that knows me and my wife and my children by name, then when monitored areas issue detections, for example, say I’m in the backyard and the temperature is above 80 degrees, have a home assistant kick on a sprinkler system or something like that. And if my wife is back there and it’s 80 degrees, don’t do that because she wouldn’t want t…