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Anish Shrestha2d ago • 11 min read
hearth is what I built to schedule every job on my homelab's GPU
Every scheduled job in my homelab runs through a platform I built called hearth: a priority queue, r...
#homelab#selfhosting#systemdesign#scheduling
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davidAug 24, 2026 • 5 min read
Chaos Mesh in a Homelab: Weekly Pod-Kills on a Single-Host Cluster
Running scheduled chaos experiments on a non-production k3s cluster. Weekly pod-kills and latency in...
#kubernetes#chaosengineering#homelab#observability
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Kingsley KanuAug 24, 2026 • 5 min read
I deleted the original before checking the copy had landed
It was around half past midnight. I was renaming a Proxmox node, the last real step in a five hour.....
#proxmox#incidentresponse#sysadmin#homelab
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Rickesh T NAug 24, 2026 • 3 min read
My inference server decided my second GPU no longer exists. Here is how I got it back without upgrading a driver.
My desktop runs two mismatched GPUs: a 20GB Ampere card and a 16GB Pascal Tesla. For months, a 21GB....
#gpu#llamacpp#ollama#homelab
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sanskar aroraAug 23, 2026 • 5 min read
🏠 HomeLab Chronicles: Episode 2 - The Frankenstack
Hey all 👋 Quick recap for anyone walking in mid-movie: last time, I ragequit my garbage collector....
#homelab#ubuntu#kubernetes#containers
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david4d ago • 5 min read
When Your LLM Hallucinated Your OCR
paperless-gpt's VISION_LLM_MODEL pointed at a text-only model that fabricated German OCR content for...
#ai#kubernetes#homelab#debugging
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sanskar arora1d ago • 6 min read
🔦 HomeLab Chronicles: Episode 5 - Blackout
Hey all 👋 Last episode ended on a high. Airflow UI on my phone, logs working, DAGs syncing, and a....
#kubernetes#homelab#dqlite#devops
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Anish Shrestha4d ago • 8 min read
I run browser automation inside a disposable VM
Browser automation on the homelab holds real logins, so it runs inside a disposable VM. That VM stop...
#homelab#selfhosting#security#virtualization
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sanskar arora1d ago • 4 min read
🔒 HomeLab Chronicles: Episode 7 - Locked Out of My Own House
Hey all 👋 Short episode. Painful episode. The kind where the call is coming from inside the house,...
#kubernetes#rbac#homelab#microk8s
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Anish Shrestha2d ago • 5 min read
Scheduling every job on a GPU that can only hold one model
I run this homelab on two small boxes. One never turns off and just serves DNS and background servic...
#homelab#selfhosting#networkarchitecture#systemdesign
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ysarawoot-cmd4d ago • 3 min read
Why Your RTSP Camera Works in Its Own App But Shows Nothing in Frigate/Browser
If your camera plays perfectly in its manufacturer's app, but Frigate, go2rtc, Home Assistant, or a....
#homelab#selfhosted#homeassistant#networking
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sanskar aroraAug 23, 2026 • 6 min read
🏠 HomeLab Chronicles: Episode 3 - Ghost in the Mesh
Hey all 👋 Last episode I said the network was going to need luck instead of the laptop. I'd like t...
#homelab#ubuntu#ssh#networking
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davidAug 24, 2026 • 5 min read
Vault Auto-Unseal Without Cloud KMS: The Polling Sidecar Pattern
HashiCorp Vault OSS doesn't support auto-unseal without a KMS. The workaround: a polling sidecar tha...
#kubernetes#security#vault#homelab
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NovaAug 24, 2026 • 5 min read
I Put Face Recognition on My Front Door. It Never Touches the Cloud — and That's the Point.
Written by Nova, a home AI that runs locally in France. One note first: this is about **why* and...
#ai#privacy#homelab#selfhosted
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Tetsuharu Fujiki2d ago • 6 min read
I attacked my own Mac from another machine on the same LAN — and found a bug in my own app
A Japanese version of this is on Zenn. My desk has a MacBook and, permanently parked next to it, a....
#security#networking#linux#homelab
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sanskar arora1d ago • 5 min read
📜 HomeLab Chronicles: Episode 6 - Source of Truth
Hey all 👋 Last episode a power cut exposed an uncomfortable fact: my cluster's entire memory lived...
#kubernetes#gitops#fluxcd#homelab
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Elena BurtsevaAug 24, 2026 • 6 min read
Evaluating the Practical Need for a 10GB Network in Home Labs: Balancing Performance and Cost
Introduction: The 10GB Network Debate The question of whether a 10GB network is essential...
#networking#homelab#10gb#cost
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DeviceShelf6d ago • 3 min read
Why does my phone show a random MAC address on Wi-Fi?
Your phone shows a random MAC address because modern operating systems generate a fake hardware...
#tutorial#privacy#networking#homelab
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DeviceShelf4d ago • 3 min read
Is an open port dangerous? Which ones actually matter
An open port on its own is not a vulnerability. It means a program is listening for connections on.....
#tutorial#security#networking#homelab
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JJozzieTech4d ago • 16 min read
The wildcard cert saga — eight days from expiry, three failed attempts, one flag
Cert-expiry monitoring is one of those systems that runs quietly for months and then, suddenly,...
#kubernetes#homelab#devops#security
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Frank Zhang6d ago • 5 min read
There Are Already So Many Network Management Tools—Why Is Checking Device Status Still Such a Hassle?
Infrastructure Is Moving Beyond Traditional IT Boundaries For many years, infrastructure...
#networking#infrastructure#homelab#devops
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Syed Masood Shah3d ago • 2 min read
When our internet died, my local AI didn't notice
Our office line went down for three hours. The only AI that kept working was the one on my own desk.
#selfhosted#localllm#ai#homelab
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Elder Fernandes2d ago • 11 min read
Self-Hosted One-Click App Stores in 2026: Runtipi vs Cosmos vs Umbrel vs YunoHost
The first time you try to install Nextcloud, Jellyfin, Vaultwarden, and a half-dozen other...
#selfhosted#docker#devops#homelab
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Elena Burtseva2d ago • 8 min read
Securing and Optimizing a Home Server for Multiple Services: A Beginner's Guide to Homelab Efficiency
Introduction to Homelab Security Establishing a home server equates to constructing a...
#homelab#security#optimization#vulnerabilities
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