Built A Stealth NAS Inside An Old Apple Router Introduction The homelab community thrives on ingenious hardware repurposing projects, but few capture the imagination like converting obsolete netw...

Blinky Light Port Pic: The DevOps Art of Infrastructure Visibility Introduction In the world of DevOps and system administration, there’s an unspoken kinship among engineers who understand the hy...

I Hosted A Minecraft Server On My Fire 7 Tablet 9Th Gen Introduction The concept of running production-grade services on resource-constrained devices represents one of the most fascinating challe...

I Made An All-In-One USB Drive As A Farewell Gift For A Colleague Introduction In the world of DevOps and system administration, few gestures carry more practical weight than a meticulously craft...

When Your Home Server Draws More Power Than Your Neighbors Sauna Introduction The hum of server fans has become the new white noise in tech households worldwide. But when your homelab’s power con...

So I Set Up My Own Server And Now I Spend More Time Fixing It Than Actually Using It Introduction The thrill of deploying your first self-hosted server is undeniable. You envision streamlined wor...

What Do I Do With 4 Prodesks INTRODUCTION You’ve just scored four HP ProDesk 600 G3 mini PCs – a sysadmin’s dream windfall. These compact workhorses (typically equipped with 6th/7th-gen Intel Cor...

Sysadmins Microsoft Is Keeping Your Job Safe Introduction The paradoxical truth in modern IT infrastructure is this: The more complex enterprise ecosystems become, the more indispensable skilled ...

Don’t Know Everything, Quiet Quit, Be Mediocre: It’ll Save Your Sanity In The Long Run Introduction The sysadmin’s terminal flickers with yet another ticket: “NTP server shows correct time but wa...