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Posts about infrastructure, automation, observability, networking, security, and homelab engineering.
2026
Home Assistant: Controlling the IoT Zoo in My House
·2031 words·10 mins
Extending Home Assistant's Bluetooth Range With an ESP32 Proxy
·693 words·4 mins
Moving Home Assistant From a Raspberry Pi 4 to an Intel NUC
·2145 words·11 mins
Ripping out Ceph: an overnight ODF to Longhorn migration
·1786 words·9 mins
Turning Six Raspberry Pi CM4s Into an OpenStack Cloud
·885 words·5 mins
Upgrading OpenShift Data Foundation to 4.22
·1553 words·8 mins
The database that came back wrong: a CNPG failover post-mortem
·1672 words·8 mins
Secondhand parts, real lessons: diagnosing a dead control-plane node
·1492 words·8 mins
Blood, Sweat & Solder: A Year Rebuilding My Homelab Into a Private Cloud
·1084 words·6 mins