Topics
Pick a corner of the rabbit hole. Each topic is a curated landing page with featured articles and quick links.
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Docker & Containers
Docker, Compose, Podman, and container tooling for home labs and small teams. Practical guides from someone who's run them in production.
121 articles
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Self-Hosting
Self-host your photos, notes, mail, dashboards, and the rest. Honest guides on what's worth running yourself and what isn't.
151 articles
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Linux
Linux for sysadmins, home labbers, and developers who actually use it. systemd, bash, filesystems, networking, and the boring fixes that matter.
228 articles
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AI & LLMs
Local LLM serving, prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, agentic tools, and what's worth the GPU hours. Honest takes, no hype.
46 articles
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Networking
WireGuard, Tailscale, Headscale, Cloudflare Tunnels, DNS, IPv6, and the practical networking a home lab actually needs.
70 articles
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DevOps & Automation
Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD, GitOps, and infra automation that doesn't require a Fortune-500 budget. Pragmatic guides for small teams.
128 articles
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Security
SSH, firewalls, TLS, secrets, container image hardening, and authn/SSO. Practical security for people who run their own infra.
99 articles
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Storage & Backups
ZFS, Btrfs, LVM, Restic, Borg, Kopia, and the 3-2-1-1-0 strategy that survives a bad day. Storage and backups for home labs.
34 articles
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Observability & Monitoring
Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Alertmanager, and the SLO mindset. Lightweight observability for home labs and small teams.
28 articles
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Databases & Data Ops
Postgres, Redis/Valkey, SQLite, MariaDB, migrations without downtime, and the data-ops bits that matter for small infrastructures.
10 articles