Homelab

A networked e-ink office status sign built on a Seeed reTerminal E1002, driven by Home Assistant over a hardened mutual-TLS MQTT pipeline, with a phone PWA remote and deep-sleep battery management.

My favorite new tool from 2024 is Obsidian. It helps me organize my projects, my knowledge, and my thoughts.

I have a new automated blog post publishing workflow to go with my new website architecture.

Just in time for the new year, my website has a new look and a new infrastructure!

What is Homelabbing? #

Wiktionary says a homelab is a server set up in one’s home for the purpose of testing various configurations of hardware, operating systems, and software. Another view is that a homelab is a place where tech professionals can learn and experiment and feel free to make mistakes outside of their work-related systems. The term also encompasses advanced home networking, computing, and storage setups deployed by self-hosters and tech enthusiasts - regardless of its purpose.

To decrease my reliance on proprietary software solutions, increase data sovereignty, and reduce subscriptions, I am using Home Assistant: an open-source software package that is like a super “smart home hub.”

I had a problem worth solving - keeping the unbound DNS configs on my two pi-hole servers in sync - so I wrote a bash script and published my first GitHub repo.