A Proxmox Container Born, Configured, and Destroyed From Code
Prove your homelab's infrastructure code with a scratch container — OpenTofu creates it, Ansible configures it, a destroy removes it, production untouched.
Ansible for a Cluster You Built by Hand: Capture, Then Assert
Bring hand-configured Proxmox nodes under Ansible without changing them — capture live config into roles and make check mode your acceptance test.
Rebuild Your Homelab From Zero: What Survives a Total Loss
A Proxmox disaster-recovery walkthrough — what survives losing every node, the restore order that unblocks itself, and two commands that prove the rebuild.
Turn a Hand-Built Proxmox Cluster Into Code Without Breaking It
IaC guides assume an empty account. Here's the import-first approach for a Proxmox homelab already running things you cannot afford to lose.
Import a Live Proxmox Cluster Into OpenTofu With Zero Changes
Bring running Proxmox containers under OpenTofu without restarting one: import blocks, the generated-config cleanup, and a clean plan that becomes your drift detector.
Real Screenshots, Zero Leaks: My Disposable Demo Lab
How this site captures real, publish-safe homelab screenshots — a throwaway demo lab plus headless Chrome, with no mockups and no leaked IPs.
Jellyseerr: Let Your Family Request Movies Themselves
Give your whole household a Netflix-style page to browse and request titles — Jellyseerr passes each approved request straight to Radarr and Sonarr, hands-free.
The Self-Healing Arr Stack: Why My Watchlist Silently Stopped Downloading
A real homelab incident — rotated API keys silently killed my Arr automation for days with zero errors. Here's the debugging story and the four patterns that make media automation immune to it: runtime keys, one consolidated script, an auto-detecting VPN-leak check, and a dead-man's-switch alert.
10 Mistakes I Made Building a Homelab Second Brain (And How Each Got Fixed)
What went wrong — and why — as I built a canonical Git vault, AI agent skills, write locks, and projection consumers: silent data loss, hanging CLIs, restore gaps, and the one mistake I made twice.
Your First Docker Compose Stack: From Zero to a Running Service
A true beginner's guide to Docker Compose. Learn what images, containers, ports, and volumes actually are by deploying your first real service — the foundation every self-hosted app is built on.
Run Home Assistant on Proxmox the Right Way (HAOS in a VM)
The correct way to run Home Assistant in a Proxmox homelab: Home Assistant OS in a dedicated VM, installed with the community helper script. Covers why a VM beats a container, and full onboarding.
One Dashboard for Your Whole Homelab: Set Up Homepage
Stop bookmarking IP addresses. Set up Homepage — a fast, self-hosted dashboard that puts every homelab service, live status, and system stats on one clean start page. Beginner Docker Compose guide.
Self-Host Your Photos with Immich: A Private Google Photos Alternative
Replace Google Photos with Immich on your Proxmox homelab. A beginner guide to installing Immich with Docker Compose, automatic phone backup, AI face and object search — all running on hardware you own.
Make Your AI Agents Read the Docs First, Every Time
Give your AI agents a revision-labeled cold start against your knowledge vault — verify the canonical commit, load only the pages the task needs, fail closed on mismatch, and persist outcomes through the controlled writer.
Why Auto-Syncing Your Notes Repo Will Corrupt It
Blanket auto-sync corrupts a canonical knowledge base. Replace it with a controlled write: lock, validate, commit, refresh projections, verify, unlock — so every change is atomic and every projection stays coherent.
Never Lose a Homelab Note Again: A Git + Markdown Vault
Build a homelab knowledge base on Git and Markdown — the substrate that gives you version history, plain-text durability, and one authoritative copy. Includes the SSHFS-over-bashrc mount pattern.
Never Move a Note When a Project Ends
When a project ends, don't move its notes to an archive folder — you break every link and bookmark pointing at them. Put lifecycle in frontmatter, not the file path.
Share Your Vault Across Machines Without Split-Brain
Your laptop, your cluster, and your agents all need the vault — but only one copy can be authoritative. Use a direct mount for editing and a read-only forced-command SSH reader for everyone else.
Prove Your Homelab Docs Are Actually Up to Date
A knowledge base with many derived views is only trustworthy if every view proves it's current. The operations chapter: consumer parity, commit-matching health checks, a backup mirror, and correct failure behavior.
Turn a Pile of Notes Into a Connected Brain
Turn a flat pile of Markdown notes into a connected graph. Model topics as neurons and links as synapses, then generate the maps and region tags automatically from frontmatter.
Turn Your Git Vault Into a Searchable Wiki.js Site
Derive a published Wiki.js site from your Git vault as a read-only projection — one that reports the exact commit it was built from and cascades deletes so it never drifts from the source.
Automating the Arr Stack: Import Lists, Quality Profiles, Media Server
Make the *arr stack hands-off — import lists that add titles automatically, quality profiles that grab the best release, and a notification that refreshes Plex or Jellyfin on import.
Deploy the Arr Stack with Docker Compose (Prowlarr, Radarr, Sonarr)
Stand up the full *arr stack in Docker Compose — Prowlarr, Radarr, Sonarr, and a VPN-shielded download client — with the single-root folder layout that enables instant hardlink imports.
What Is the Arr Stack? Sonarr, Radarr, and Prowlarr Explained
A plain-English guide to the *arr stack — what Sonarr, Radarr, and Prowlarr each do, how they fit together, and how the automated media pipeline actually works.
Ventoy: One USB Drive for Every ISO You Own
Stop reflashing your USB drive for every OS install. Ventoy lets you boot any ISO by dropping it onto a drive — perfect for homelabbers juggling Proxmox, Ubuntu, GParted, and more.
Hermes Agent: Self-Hosted AI Agent with Fallback Model Chains
Deploy Hermes Agent on Proxmox LXC — a fully autonomous AI agent with tool use, Anthropic primary routing, and OpenRouter fallback chains. Includes the Kanban integration and CLI delegation setup.