I rebuilt the exhaust ventilation late 2017, but shortly after — I did the homelab ventilation project and had to remove parts of the exhaust system because it was in the way of the new insulated ducts. Time to rebuilt it!

All my homelab servers and containers send their logs to a local Graylog instance. I wanted my VPS to do that as well — but sending unencrypted logs over the internet is not a good idea.

To make sure my HTTP redirects were valid, and pointing to the correct location — I added a Prometheus Blackbox exporter module 👇

My ATTEN 858D hot air gun suddenly began tripping the residual-current device in my home office. Let’s investigate! 👇

It’s not long ago that I redesigned this website, and now — two months later I am doing it again… So why?

I’ve turned comments on — these are the services I evaluated. 👇

I’ve redesigned the website — to simplify, declutter, and emphasize the content and reading experience.

Late 2018 I finally pulled the trigger and bought a Unifi 16XG 10GbE switch, I’ve wanted one for a long time. When I plugged it in for the first time, I realized it was pretty loud… It was the loudest thing in my rack — bummer.

The homelab is in my home office, man-cave, workshop — which is in the basement. The room is pretty well insulated, and heat generated here, mostly by the homelab, stays here. I needed a way to keep the temperature down in the hot summer months and during the cold winters. Well — this is it!

In 2018 I changed platform for my website, a lot. This the third time; from self-made to Jekyll, to Ghost, and now to Hugo. With a lot of trial and error in between. Here is what happened.