…I hosted AdGuard Home (AGH) and Unbound on the same homelab server as my other self-hosted services. I learned the hard way why that was wrong. I repurposed an old work…
…Sure, they're things that could have been avoided with more research, but you don't know what you don't know, and sometimes you only learn by failure. So when I…
…Sign in to your XDA account Dismissing the utility of backups and realizing your mistake after losing essential data to a catastrophic failure is every home labber’s rite of passage. But…
…TrueNAS changes that feeling by nudging you to think in terms of pools, datasets, permissions, snapshots, and services. That structure is a big part of why the setup starts to feel serious…
…The best part? If you despise cloud platforms that charge monetary subscriptions in exchange for their clanker services as much as I do, you can host image generation models on a local…
…fewer mysterious failures than before. Most importantly, the network became invisible again. Switching back did mean giving up some protection; segmentation did limit the blast radius of exposed services, weak credentials, or…
…Claude Code handles these tasks naturally because it lives inside the terminal. I can ask it to investigate a failure, run a test suite, inspect the output, make changes, and try again…
…I’ve also disabled tools that can update my TrueNAS instances to further mitigate the chances of irrecoverable failure. Related 5 irreplaceable services my NAS provides that I couldn't live without…
…Every new device added another point of failure and another tether to a manufacturer’s server. To avoid such fatigue, I decided to consolidate everything under a single, local-first brain: Home…
…With Claude Code, much of the information can live inside the project itself. The automation only needs to pass the new information into the workflow. Context is the missing layer in most…