After 10 Years In Network Security Here’s The Audit Checklist I Actually Use Introduction After a decade of conducting security audits for SMBs and enterprises, I’ve discovered a harsh truth: 90%...
Mice Decided To Hijack My Truenas Storage Node Introduction When we discuss storage management in homelab environments, we typically focus on logical threats: RAID failures, bit rot, or ransomwar...
I Built A Digital Safe With Multiple Keys After A Few Too Many Bike Concussions Introduction A sudden crash on a mountain bike trail left me staring at the sky with a familiar dread - not about b...
My Tight Self Designed Small Homelab: A DevOps Powerhouse in 60 Watts Introduction In the era of cloud dominance, why would any DevOps professional invest time in building a physical homelab? The...
How Much I’ve Received In Donations In 3 Months Making Self-Hosted Apps Introduction The landscape of open-source development faces a critical paradox: while self-hosted tools form the backbone o...
Moved To Glance From Homarr And Its Incredible: A DevOps Perspective on Dashboard Optimization Introduction The eternal struggle for resource efficiency in self-hosted environments reached a crit...
Worst Part Of The Job Today Introduction The terminal blinked back at me with cold indifference as I typed the commands - userdel jsmith, passwd -l jsmith, az ad user delete --id jsmith@contoso.c...
I’m Thinking I Can Pay Off My House With This: The Reality of Enterprise Hardware Costs in DevOps Introduction When a Reddit user recently posted server upgrade photos with the caption “I’m think...
AI Making My Job So Much Harder And Fighting Every Decision I Make Introduction The conference room whiteboard still showed remnants of last week’s architecture diagram, but today’s meeting had t...
After Spending A Lot Of Time Looking At Your Setups I Decided To Take The Plunge And Start This Hobby 1. Introduction The blinking LEDs of a Raspberry Pi nestled next to your sofa represent more ...