Every blog post you publish about privacy, security, or self-hosting? Your own site is probably undermining it while your readers read it. I’m not talking about malware or breaches. I’m talking about the quiet stuff — the third-party requests that fire on every single pageview, sending your visitors’ IP addresses to companies they never consented…
My pinball leaderboard kiosk sits in a bar three hours away. I can’t drive over and reboot it. I can’t ask the bar owner to SSH in and restart a service. If that screen goes dark during league night, nobody’s fixing it until I make a six-hour round trip. So I engineered it to never…
Every server in my homelab backs itself up automatically, ships copies to a dedicated backup server, and pushes a weekly snapshot to Google Drive — all while I sleep. If my house burns down tomorrow, I lose nothing. This isn’t enterprise gear. It’s Duplicati, some n8n workflows, and a backup server built from spare parts….
It’s a Tuesday morning. You’re three coffees deep, tweaking your most complex n8n workflow — the one that took two weekends, a mass of Stack Overflow tabs, and one mass of profanity to build. You’re dragging nodes around, cleaning things up, making it pretty. Then you accidentally delete a connection. No — worse. You accidentally…
If you’re running a homelab, you’re probably on a constant quest for the ultimate automation tool—that one magic piece of software that can tie all your disparate services together. For me, and for many others, n8n has come incredibly close to being that tool. It’s a powerful, flexible, and visually intuitive way to build complex…
If you’ve been in the homelab world for more than a week, you’ve heard of Pi-Hole. It’s the go-to project for blocking ads and trackers, a rite of passage for anyone with a spare Raspberry Pi. And for that, it deserves our respect. It showed us what was possible. But it’s time to be honest:…
If you’re running a homelab, you’ve probably spent countless hours tweaking services and perfecting your dashboard. But you might be making one of the most common—and disruptive—mistakes possible: relying on a single DNS server. Or, perhaps you’re a step ahead. You’ve configured two DNS servers in your clients’ network settings, thinking you’re safe. But then,…