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…
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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…
The NixOS Tweaks I Wish I’d Started Using Sooner in my Home Lab
I have been moving heavily into immutable server operating systems especially for hosting my containerized home lab resources. Flatcar has been my OS of choice lately for container hosts. But…
The Home Lab Projects That Taught Me the Most
There are some home lab projects that teach you a few things, and are great to incorporate. However, there are some projects that looking back on my journey, really taught…
The Home Lab Defaults I Never Skip
One of the things that sometimes gets overlooked with home labbing is that good defaults matter more than we might give them credit for. When I started building out lab…
The Weirdest Home Lab Network Problems I’ve Actually Run Into
There are definitely some home lab problems that are easier to diagnose. If you have a service you know about that crashes, a container that exits for some reason or…
The More I Learn, the Simpler My Home Lab Becomes
If you’ve followed my home lab journey over the past several years, you’ve probably noticed something interesting. My current production environment actually looks much less impressive than it used to.…
The Home Lab Services I Never Stop Monitoring (And Why They Matter)
One of the core monitoring components of my home lab is uptime monitoring. In other words, are my apps, services, web resources, etc up and running? Is anything down? I…