My Home Server As A Young Teenager Ca 2004: A DevOps Perspective on Retro Infrastructure Introduction In the golden age of dial-up and early broadband, teenage sysadmins like myself pioneered hom...

Someone Forked My Open Source Project, Removed The License, And Then Used It To Host Illegal F1 Streams 1. Introduction The open-source ecosystem thrives on trust and mutual respect. When someone ...

Selfhosting Is Not A Hobby Anymore: Its A Way Of Running A Small Business Introduction The whir of server fans in a basement office no longer signals just a hobbyist’s playground. What began as s...

I Turned My Homelab Into A Profitable Business Small Clusterfck Update Introduction The journey from homelab hobbyist to profitable infrastructure entrepreneur is fraught with technical debt, sca...

Finally Got Around To Installing Tailscale Introduction After years of juggling OpenVPN configurations, firewall rules, and SSH tunnel gymnastics, I finally installed Tailscale in my homelab. Lik...

What Happened To The IT Profession Introduction The IT profession has undergone a radical transformation since its golden era in the 1980s-2000s. Where technical passion once drove career paths a...

GrapheneOS Is Being Threatened By The French Government Introduction The open-source security landscape faces a critical challenge as GrapheneOS - a privacy-focused mobile operating system - come...

What Shall We Build Today Introduction The sudden acquisition of 43 Lenovo ThinkCentre devices (m920q, p320, m700 series) and Xeon workstations presents both an opportunity and a challenge famili...

I Warned Them And They Didn’t Listen: The High Cost of Ignoring Infrastructure Warnings INTRODUCTION We’ve all been there. That gut-wrenching moment when your worst-case scenario predictions come...

Pi-Hole Better Than Adguard: A Technical Deep Dive for DevOps Engineers INTRODUCTION In the world of self-hosted network ad-blocking, a Reddit user recently observed an intriguing phenomenon: the...