10 quality-of-life services I self-host on my home lab
…While you could configure a reverse proxy to leverage custom domain names when accessing your service suite, setting up a dashboard is an easy and painless way to launch the web UIs…
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Claude Code's usage breakdown showed me which of my own habits were burning my limits
…This includes the instructions that tell it how to behave, the descriptions of every tool it's allowed to use, any custom rules you've set up in your config files, and…
Your home network doesn't need Pi-hole — an $8 ESP32 blocks ads just as well for a fraction of the cost
…Alternatively, you can leave the default blocklist URL in place and maintain a separate offline custom.txt file with the custom domains. Again, you can upload this file directly to the device…
My homelab monitoring broke silently until I switched from SMS to ntfy in an afternoon
…The dashboard was lightweight, built on Python and Flask. There was even an SMS dead man’s switch sending alerts over the cellular network, completely outside my home network. The SMS function…
I don't use Tailscale or Nginx to access my home lab remotely, here's what I use instead
…It builds on WireGuard and Traefik to do so, with a custom management application and central server, several custom plugins, and a custom WireGuard client. Those components include: Pangolin: Management server Gerbil…
Home Assistant slows down over time, but there's a nuclear option most people don't realize
…Another issue is the obsession with custom plugins . Enthusiasts stack dozens of unmaintained Home Assistant Community Store card frontends and custom integrations that leak memory and slow page rendering. It's easy…
I built a Home Assistant automation that saves power daily, and nobody in my family even knows it exists
…It brought a highly customizable, card-based dashboard system that allowed users to design their own smart home control panels with minimal coding. Not quite. The answer is Lovelace UI. Rolled out…
Ntopng turned my home network into something I could actually understand
…On the networking front, I’ve got a few utilities that generate neat dashboards for my LAN devices, but ntopng is the only one I rely on for detailed analysis. Sure, AdGuard…
Cursor 3.0 beats VS Code at the one thing that matters most now
…Sign in to your XDA account The modern code editor is no longer judged by how many extensions it supports or how customizable its interface is. What matters now is how effectively…
I stopped manually organizing 90+ NotebookLM notebooks once I found these two underrated tools
…Of course, the problem I’m talking about is the lack of organization both in the dashboard and inside the notebooks. I’ll give NotebookLM some credit for adding a couple of…