Blog
2025
- The Raspberry Pi TrapDec 29, 2025 homelab Opinion Hardware FeaturedThoughts on why Raspberry Pis are overused in homelabs and how older hardware can be better for learning.
- Curiosity matters more than trendy hardware
- Old gear forces deliberate tradeoffs and better learning
- Homelabs should teach systems, not shopping lists
- Local AI, Old GPUs, and the Real Reason People Use N8NDec 13, 2025 homelab N8N Automation projectA hands-on homelab experiment running local AI and discovering that N8N exists to solve problems most people don’t want to write code for.
- Forced local AI to run on old hardware and mostly behave
- Wired logs and data into N8N to make something actually useful
- Kept the entire stack self-hosted and under my control
- Moving and the Homelab RebuildSep 2, 2025 homelab infrastructure movingSometimes the best way to continue, is to start over.
- Ran new ethernet drops throughout the house to centralize everything in the office lab
- Upgraded rural connectivity with Starlink plus a beefier Proxmox CPU and CUDA-capable GPU
- Refocused on IaC-first rebuilds so future migrations are faster than restoring old VMs
- Too Many ProjectsMay 22, 2025 homelab automation updateBeen just a bit busy...
- Documented the growing lab hardware stack from Proxmox hosts to Unifi networking
- Captured the software/services mix spanning Docker hosts, Wazuh, Puffer Panel, and more
- Outlined plans for AWX, Terraform, and IaC-driven rebuilds to keep experiments repeatable
- HomeLab Go 📱May 18, 2025 project homelabDesigning a mobile-first dashboard for my homelab.
- Mobile-first status dashboard for common services
- Widgets/notifications planned for quick checks
- Eventually open-sourced once the beta stabilizes
2024
- This SiteNov 25, 2024 meta siteI got tired reinventing the wheel.
- Forked the Astro Nano template so I could focus on content instead of boilerplate
- Turning the blog into a living logbook for homelab rebuilds and documentation
- Realistic cadence goal - minimum one post per quarter starting in 2025
2023
- Boring Weather ☁️Oct 18, 2023 project iosBuilding and shipping a minimal weather app for iOS.
- SwiftUI + WeatherKit build shipped to the App Store
- Xcode Cloud for TestFlight and production releases
- Clean UI focused on at-a-glance data