The Docker Networking Mistakes I Still See in Home Labs (And How I Avoid Them)
Docker is an amazing tool that can be used both in production and in our home labs. I am a huge proponent of containerizing what makes sense. In the day…
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The systemd Services and Timers I Use in My Immutable Linux Home Lab
For the past several months now, I have shifted my home lab to immutable Linux distros like Flatcar which has changed how I think about installing software and things like…
How I Organize My Entire Home Lab So I Can Actually Find Anything
I have been reflecting on how far things have come in my home lab and ironically, I feel like I am more organized now more than ever before, even though…
The Reverse Proxy Mistakes I Still See in Home Labs (And How I Avoid Them)
Reverse proxies are one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure once you stand up a home lab and start learning containers and hosting things in those containers. You quickly…
I Thought My DNS Was Fine Until I Started Monitoring This
I am all about monitoring things in my home lab and with DNS being so important, if there is one service to monitor, this is it. DNS is at the…
These Downloadable AI Skills Made My Home Lab Agents Much More Useful
I have spent a lot of time experimenting with AI agents in my home lab over the past year. I have connected them to services through MCP servers as you…
I Connected AI to Cloudflare and It Changed How I Manage My Home Lab
For the last several months, AI has become a large part of just about every single project that I work on in the home lab, either directly or indirectly on…
This New Open Source Tool Completely Changed How I Manage My Home Lab
There are so many new tools out there for home lab related activities. So, I have to pick and choose what I decide to test out in my home lab.…
My Favorite MCP Servers for the Home Lab in 2026
AI continues to advance at blazing speeds. One of the biggest developments over the past year has been the introduction of Model Context Protocol, or MCP. MCP servers provide a…
7 Open Source Infrastructure Projects I’m Watching Closely Right Now
One of the exciting things that I love about running a home lab is discovering new community projects before they become mainstream. Every so often there are projects that appear…
