learn from my mistakes…
Foreword I got tired of the runaround. Check on backups? SSH into the backup server. Spin up a new client instance? Click through Railway’s dashboard, then Cloudflare’s DNS panel, then set up 15 environment variables. Add a new service to the network? Log into Nginx Proxy Manager, configure the proxy host, then log into Pi-hole…
Foreword I’ve been running a NAS and Proxmox nodes at home for years. Two hypervisors, a bunch of VMs, plenty of idle compute just sitting there. Meanwhile I was paying monthly for shared hosting to run a couple WordPress sites. At some point it hit me: why am I paying for hosting when I have…
Foreword So I’ve been running breadAI for a few months now. It pulls data from 30+ sources across my homelab, compresses 11 million characters of logs down to about 2,800, and sends me a daily Discord report. It’s great. Except for the part where it sometimes just… makes stuff up. Not maliciously. LLMs do this…
Foreword My kid’s school does a raffle fundraiser every year. My wife runs it. Kids get tickets, they choose which prizes to put them toward, someone does a drawing, everyone cheers. The problem was how they were running it: spreadsheets, paper tickets, and manually tracking who put what where. One day my wife asked me…
So I run a homelab. Nothing crazy. A couple Proxmox hypervisors, a Synology NAS, pfSense firewall, a managed Brocade switch, UniFi APs, three Pi-holes, an Emby server… okay, maybe it’s a little crazy. Point is, there’s a lot of stuff generating logs, and I was not reading any of them. Every morning I’d tell myself…