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I write up homelab failures in detail — the ones where the obvious diagnosis was wrong. Everything here was measured on a running machine, never copied from the docs. GItHUB: https://github.com/casare

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A ticker is not an identity
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A ticker is not an identity

#showdev #python #api #automation
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I let an AI agent help run my Home Assistant setup — here's what I handed it, what I kept for myself, and why
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I let an AI agent help run my Home Assistant setup — here's what I handed it, what I kept for myself, and why

#homeassistant #selfhosted #ai #homelab
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The paywall tax: I checked, and most of it is just a nicer URL
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The paywall tax: I checked, and most of it is just a nicer URL

#api #webdev #selfhosted #data
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The hard part of an internal tool isn't the API. It's the second user.
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The hard part of an internal tool isn't the API. It's the second user.

#selfhosted #api #architecture #webdev
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The bug that marked 9,133 emails as read
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The bug that marked 9,133 emails as read

#python #email #debugging #api
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I self-host my mesh VPN with NetBird instead of Tailscale — here's the one reason, and where Tailscale still wins
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I self-host my mesh VPN with NetBird instead of Tailscale — here's the one reason, and where Tailscale still wins

#selfhosted #networking #vpn #homelab
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Every secret in my homelab has exactly one home: how I run a self-hosted secrets manager, and the traps that bit me
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Every secret in my homelab has exactly one home: how I run a self-hosted secrets manager, and the traps that bit me

#selfhosted #security #homelab #devops
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One AI, six jobs: how I take an idea from a one-line thought to something live, with a team of agents that share a task board
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One AI, six jobs: how I take an idea from a one-line thought to something live, with a team of agents that share a task board

#ai #automation #agents #selfhosted
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I run my homelab like a small company: the architecture, the org chart, and the rules I only learned by breaking things
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I run my homelab like a small company: the architecture, the org chart, and the rules I only learned by breaking things

#selfhosted #homelab #automation #opensource
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Putting Authelia in front of my whole homelab: what worked, what didn't, and the £0 lesson that nearly undid all of it
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Putting Authelia in front of my whole homelab: what worked, what didn't, and the £0 lesson that nearly undid all of it

#selfhosted #security #homelab #devops
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My 5 trading bots reported every sale as a success. None of them ever sold anything.
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My 5 trading bots reported every sale as a success. None of them ever sold anything.

#automation #python #ai #devops
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Your DNS resolver is dropping queries and calling it a timeout
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Your DNS resolver is dropping queries and calling it a timeout

#dns #networking #debugging #homelab
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Your Spotify playlist reader isn't broken. It's reading a boolean.
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Your Spotify playlist reader isn't broken. It's reading a boolean.

#api #programming #python #webdev
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A dead GPU degrades gracefully. A working one crash-loops.
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A dead GPU degrades gracefully. A working one crash-loops.

#homelab #hardware #selfhosted #debugging
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