Segmenting My Home Lab: A VLAN Revamp with UniFi Gear
Part 2: segmenting my home lab using UniFi VLANs, Debian 13 configuration, 4th-octet alignment, and dnsmasq.
Self Hosting
Escaping the Hotel Subnet Trap: How Traveling Sporadically Broke My WireGuard VPN
How a fiber outage gave me a week to re-number my home subnets and escape hotel Wi-Fi VPN conflicts.
Shell history backup, sync, and search with Atuin
Self-hosting your own shell history sync and search server.
IPv6 for self-hosting - intro
I wanted to learn more about IPv6 so I set it up on my home network.
Upgrading Frigate NVR from Coral TPU/MobileDet to OpenVino/YOLOv9
Old Intel hardware and iGPUs can successfully run modern models.
Migrating from Docker-Compose To Quadlets
Finally removing the need from compose.yaml files from my self-hosting stack.
Upgrading my home lab from Debian 12 -> 13 (Bookworm -> Trixie)
Quick notes of my upgrade steps.
Monitoring your backups for success with Prometheus
When is the last time you tested your backups? Are you sure they are working? A simple approach to tracking backup metrics and alerting on failures with Prometheus.
Using Restic to backup your self-hosted apps
A great tool for doing incremental and versioned backups to local and/or remote cloud storage.
Using SSH forwarding to debug VPN issues
How I use SSH to connect to my self-hosted services when my VPN is offline.