Things I build, break, fix, and write about

28 April 2026
Testing Proxmox restores before production relies on them

A green job in a Proxmox backup guide means very little until the restore boots, logs in, and serves traffic. I have trusted the dashboard before, only to find the archive was fine and the recovery was not, which is a poor way to learn anything.

27 April 2026
Network segmentation for vehicle data in Home Assistant

Modern cars are noisy little computers, and vehicle telemetry isolation only works if you treat them that way from the start. I put the car on its own...

26 April 2026
Isolating Android on a VLAN with firewall rules and split

I would not migrate an Android phone into my homelab blind. A clean Android homelab firewall DNS split, with VLAN isolation and hard DNS rules, keeps...

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