10Gb RJ45 Ports Lets Go: The Homelab Power Play That Demands Respect Introduction The Reddit post said it all: “No network bottleneck with these!” accompanied by a photo of enterprise-grade 10GbE...

Dev Gets 4 Years For Creating Kill Switch On Ex-Employers Systems: A DevOps Security Wake-Up Call Introduction The recent case of former software developer Jingyan Lu sentencing to 4 years in pri...

Completed This Year’s Project: A Deep Dive into Homelab Network Infrastructure Upgrades INTRODUCTION Every year brings new challenges for infrastructure engineers – and homelab enthusiasts are ...

Am I Getting Attacked? Introduction The moment every system administrator dreads: you’re reviewing logs and discover a flood of blocked connection attempts. Your firewall shows hundreds of banned...

Just Abruptly Ended A Meeting With My Boss Mid-Yell: Infrastructure Management Lessons From Breaking Points The server room was silent except for the hum of cooling fans when I terminated the Zoom...

Micro Lab Self-Contained Cluster For Air-Gapped Platform Engineering 1. INTRODUCTION Air-gapped environments represent the final frontier in secure infrastructure - isolated networks where data s...

What Things Would You Do With Access To An Abundance Of M2 SSDs (256GB-1TB) INTRODUCTION Imagine staring at a stack of 50+ M.2 SSDs ranging from 256GB to 1TB - all wiped, tested, and ready for de...

I’m Blaming Y’all For This: The Inevitable Escalation of Self-Hosted Infrastructure Introduction The post title echoes a sentiment every seasoned sysadmin has felt during late-night troubleshooti...

Lets Encrypt Certificates Will No Longer Be Usable For Client Authentication Starting 13 May 2026 Introduction On 14 May 2025, Let’s Encrypt dropped a bombshell announcement that will fundamental...

New Access Security Installed: A Comprehensive Guide to Infrastructure Hardening 1. INTRODUCTION When Reddit users spotted an “intruder” in a homelab server rack photo last month, the sysadmin co...