How I Managed to Wreck My Firewall Appliance With a Debian 13 Upgrade
Yesterday I proudly hit publish on a post about my super smooth upgrade to Debian 13… feeling like a proper Linux wizard. 🧙♂️ A few hours later, reality slapped me…
🛡️🧙♂️ Deploying Nextcloud: My Ansible Quest for Ultimate Automation ⚔️☁️
🤖 So, What Is This “Ansible” Magic? Ansible is basically the spellbook every modern sysadmin dreams of. It’s an open-source automation engine that lets you write playbooks—YAML files describing exactly…
From Penguin to Windows: Why I’m Running Windows Server 2025 in My Homelab
I’m still very much a Linux fan — that hasn’t changed. I run Linux in VMs, on servers, and I love its flexibility, openness, and CLI-first philosophy. In fact, I…
Keeping It Cool: My DIY Rack Cooling Upgrade
🔧 More Gear, More Heat Over the past few months, I kept adding new components to my rack setup.But here’s the catch: my rack doesn’t have any active cooling. When…
Our Solar Year: From Zero to Megawatt-Hero
About a year ago, I flipped the switch on my photovoltaic system. Now, twelve months later, I can say: 👉 Smartest decision I’ve made — and the most satisfying system…
How I Back Up My Mom’s PC Over VPN — Without the Cloud (or Headaches)
Let’s be honest: keeping family members’ devices backed up is something many of us in tech mean to do — but often don’t. Between the complexity of cloud solutions, the…
Patch Me If You Can: Keeping Debian VMs Updated with Ansible (Without Losing My Weekend)
I have around 12 Debian-based VMs running in my homelab. A while ago, I used to update them all manually — one by one. SSH into each machine, run apt…
📡 Shipping Logs Like a Pro: Fluent Bit Meets Ansible in My Homelab
By now, my little homelab has grown into a small but mighty fleet of virtual machines — almost a dozen of them are humming along nicely. But with more services…