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The $2,000 Inference Server: Standing Up Local AI on Ten-Year-Old Hardware

The $2,000 Inference Server: Standing Up Local AI on Ten-Year-Old Hardware

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Track AI Token Spend in Grafana: Claude, Codex, and Ollama

Track AI Token Spend in Grafana: Claude, Codex, and Ollama

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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

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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Staggered VM Boot: How I Prevented a Load Average of 147

Staggered VM Boot: How I Prevented a Load Average of 147

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The Shoemaker's Children Aren't Barefoot

The Shoemaker's Children Aren't Barefoot

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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

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

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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Putting Authelia in front of my whole homelab: what worked, what didn't, and the ÂŁ0 lesson that nearly undid all of it

Putting Authelia in front of my whole homelab: what worked, what didn't, and the ÂŁ0 lesson that nearly undid all of it

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The Overcommit Guard: How a Python Script Prevents Host Freezes

The Overcommit Guard: How a Python Script Prevents Host Freezes

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My Wife’s Steam Deck Is a Server Now. She Doesn’t Know Yet. 🫠

My Wife’s Steam Deck Is a Server Now. She Doesn’t Know Yet. 🫠

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Why we run storage on our own low-power hardware

Why we run storage on our own low-power hardware

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Your DNS resolver is dropping queries and calling it a timeout

Your DNS resolver is dropping queries and calling it a timeout

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On-demand SSH tunnels with systemd

On-demand SSH tunnels with systemd

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Scheduling every job on a GPU that can only hold one model

Scheduling every job on a GPU that can only hold one model

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I run browser automation inside a disposable VM

I run browser automation inside a disposable VM

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