A radical rejection of proprietary formats frees you for the future. Be a gardener, not an architect. Plant ideas, let them grow. Proprietary formats are digital concrete. They lock your thought...

Fixing DuckDB Build From Source Issues on Ubuntu Building DuckDB from source on Ubuntu can sometimes throw you a curveball. Recently, I encountered a frustrating build error that took some digging...

Molly House Molly House is another great release from Wehrlegig games without a doubt one of my favorite publishers. My review would not express anything that the spacebiff did not already capture...

When Documentation Falls Short: The DeskPi DC-PDU Mystery I spent a while trying to figure out how to power my Raspberry Pi 5 cluster inside a 10″ rack. The DeskPi DC-PDU Lite kept showing up, but...

Installing Neovim, LazyVim, and Lazygit on Ubuntu 25.04 (Raspberry Pi 5 ARM64) This is your straightforward guide to setting up Neovim, the LazyVim plugin manager, and Lazygit on Ubuntu 25.04 for ...

Note: I’m currently transitioning this site to a new theme (Chirpy). Things might look a little different while I get everything configured! It’s taken longer than expected, but the Kubernetes cl...

I recently built out our new minilab hardware cluster. After several 3D prints, I’m not 100% satisfied with it, but it’s good enough to start provisioning. I ran into a few issues: there really is...

Below is initial overview of my plan for implementing the updated network plan to facilitate kubernetes. Network Topology Overview with VLANs and Ports Internet │ ▼ UDM-PRO (10.0.1.1) ...

Historical Background I got started with homelabbing when I was pretty young, using an old iMac and running Puppy Linux. That early curiosity grew into a deeper interest as I built a basic NAS usi...

Self-Hosting Pangolin on Unraid Pangolin is an exciting new tool designed to simplify remote access to self-hosted resources, bypass CGNAT issues, and seamlessly integrate with security tools such...