How I replaced Microsoft Entra ID with Authentik for self-hosted SSO across Grafana, GitLab, and Portainer. Full control, better latency, zero cloud dependencies.
From cutting cost-heavy Citrix nets to mastering BGP Anycast, my HAProxy journey shows how resilience, security, and automation evolve.
Claude is expensive. Local models are free. OpenClaw delegates text generation to Ollama while keeping Claude for coordination. Here's how.
Build a DIY Somfy RTS controller for ~€15 using ESP32 and CC1101. Covers wiring, firmware, Home Assistant integration.
Setting up Fish Speech text-to-speech on TrueNAS SCALE with Docker and NVIDIA GPU support. Covers the gotchas I hit along the way.
How I got true active-active HAProxy load balancing using BGP anycast on a UniFi UDM Pro Max. No expensive routers needed.
A production-ready PowerShell script that automates SSL certificate binding for Citrix Broker Services. Includes validation, safety checks, and WhatIf mode.
I built a dual RTX 3090 server for local LLM inference. A Mac Mini M4 turned out to be 27% faster and 22× more efficient. Here's why memory bandwidth beats raw GPU power.
RAM prices hurt, power bills hurt more, and everyone wants to run local AI. The homelab of 2026 is smaller, smarter, and completely different from what we had five years ago.
Your AI assistant doesn't have to live on someone else's servers. OpenClaw runs on your hardware, connects to Telegram/Discord/WhatsApp, and keeps your data private. Here's how to set it up.
Replacing manual SSH configuration with HAProxy Data Plane API: how I automated load balancer management across an HA cluster using REST APIs and Ansible AWX.
Stop manually registering every new VM. With a simple cloud-init snippet, your Proxmox VMs can auto-enroll into PatchMon the moment they boot. Here's how to set it up in under 5 minutes.