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...

26 April 2026
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16 April 2026
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16 April 2026
Self-hosted automation: designing for reproducible builds

A dark lab build only works when the same input gives the same image every time, and an automated build pipeline is only useful if it is boring in all the right places. Pin everything, trust nothing...

15 April 2026
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15 April 2026
ACL permission models that break as infrastructure grows

I’ve lost enough evenings to home lab automation pitfalls to know the real trouble starts with small defaults, not big failures. ACL permission models that break as infrastructure grows are usually a...

14 April 2026
Moving keepsakes offsite without losing local Nextcloud

I keep Nextcloud for daily use, but the real safety net sits off the box. A digital keepsakes backup strategy only starts to make sense when restores are boring, not hopeful, and I have learned not to...

14 April 2026
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13 April 2026
Tenant isolation failures expose financial metadata leakage

Multi-tenant data isolation failures happen when scope checks live at the presentation layer instead of the query layer. Lloyds learned this the hard way; I'll show you why it matters in your homelab...

13 April 2026
Amazon Fire TV Stick HD and 2 more Amazon tech bargains

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